Comments on: Steve Jobs’ DRM master-stroke

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:37:52 +0000

And there we have it ladies and gentlemen, the way that the pay music sites can compete with free p2p.

Searching for a track or album or artist on p2p can take ages and comes with the frustration of either fake releases or crappy versions of releases. If there was a pay service that you could search all music ever released by album, by genre, by artist, by producer, by release date etc etc etc etc, the millions of time poor would flock to it. People are willing to pay for convenience, there are entire businesses built around this concept.

The only thing standing in the way of this is of course the muzakbigbiz. Put their entire back catalogues online and use a service that charges nonimal amounts to cover the bandwidth, hosting costs etc and a reasonable profit? (Note i said REASONABLE!!!) LOL as if! That’s way too logical for the muzakbigbiz.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:10:19 +0000

but only that… a step. theres miles to go yet.

When they sell drm free tracks for less than Â£0.50 they might have me interested, provided the majority of that finds its way to the artist.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:03:56 +0000

Most people do not know how to “rip” a cd onto their computer. iTunes is a convenience service targed to people who have jobs or at least iTunes gift cards.

I pay more for convenience often, I bit more for gas here rather then driving miles to the cheapest gas station, I pay others to change my car oil for me when I could do that myself (and get all dirty), and I am predisposed to paying for a song rather then going through the trouble of pirating it.

When I was in high school I pirated everything but now as an adult my time is worth too much to mess around for hours finding what I want.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:45:07 +0000

NO! They need to KEEP THE PRICE THE SAME or lower! This BS about giving the consumer a song with no DRM at a profit…when they should not have had it on there to begin with….. is simply stupid!

But hey, at least it is a start…..but they still have a long way to go before they even BEGIN to compete with free p2p services!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:41:59 +0000

Before today:
Cost of the song + Cost of DRM + Profit = $0.99

After today:
Cost of the song + Profit = $1.99

…anyone else smell another price fixing scandal?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:21:47 +0000

hmm … no comment yet … still waiting

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:58:16 +0000

Now they just need to do the same with video content.