MSN Music launch tomorrow
p2pnet.net News:- Apple’s pre-eminence in the corporate online music retail market is about to be seriously threatened.
Slightly more than a year ago, Bill and the Boyz said they were planning to develop something similar to Apple’s iTunes – only better.
The demo of Microsoft’s corporate music effort has been up for a while, but it goes officially online tomorrow.
So expect loads of ‘Gates’ MSN Music rivals Job’s iTunes,’ or, ‘Will Gates’MSN Music rival Job’s iTunes?’ or ‘Online Download Biz Takes Off: Microsoft Music goes online’ or ‘MSN Music joins the crowd’. And so on, ad nauseum.
The various corporate sites offer the same tracks at a dollar a throw, give or take, but no one is buying.
MSN Music will probably do better than most, iTunes included, simply because it is what it is. But since both it and iTunes are loss leaders, actual music sales are probably somewhat beside the point.
However, it could be otherwise.
Since its launch last year, Apple has managed to sell 125 million (is it?) tracks to what amounts to a handful of punters. But 61 million Americans alone use the p2p file sharing services and at a bare minimum, 10 BILLION songs have moved along the p2p networks since the beginning of the year.
Cut the price from a dollar a track to 20 cents per, say, and ……
October 12th, 2004 at 9:12 am
Not only price reduction of each song,
But also, why cant ppl outside the USA, and France, England and Germany, download tunes from napster,itunes etc.
Is not music, something worlwide?
Why is the industry keeping music to these countries, up tilll now, I have heard no article y is this. (Could be interesting).
And another thing, which have been said adnauseum, why cant the music, I buy I own it! why do I have to continue paying, to keep playing these songs.
The ppl who are your consumers RIAA,arent all executives, having a 6 figure salary, but most of them are ppl,normal ppl, who have normal jobs.
Wake up, before ur buisness dies, Suing will not solve anything, it will ultimately, kill the buisness. Building a reputation takes years, destroying it just takes days, and when u destroy it you can`t build it again, and it doesnt matter, that you whine about loosing profits, because you would have lost all credibility and can`t build it again!
October 13th, 2004 at 10:39 pm
Yeah, I wouldn’t pay $1 per track unless I truely owned that file. These new new online music store really have you by the balls when they limit you to how many times you can burn and how many times you can listen to the track from your PC. I have a connected DVD player that has a wireless connection to my PC where I can listen to all of my MP3s. If I were to use one of these online stores then I couldn’t do that. I would have to burn it and why should I burn it when I could just bye the CD, which would come with cover art and other band info. I think they are waisting there time. I will stick to file shareing, for free until then. I would rather give the band money when they do something for me like have a concert!