Downloads at 19 cents per track!
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- p2pnet has always maintained music lovers would happily pay for downloads if the price was right.
But a dollar and up, the de facto corporate standard charged by the likes of iTunes, is definitely not right.
Bluebeat, offering music downloads at 25 cents each, was unceremoniously taken down when EMI secured a temporary restraining order effective until November 20. On that date, court arguments as to why it should be allowed to start selling downloads again, or should it be be kept offline permanently, will be heard.
While we wait to see how that works out, TunesPro.com has gone online, brashly touting digital music files for six cents less than Bluebeat — ie, at 19 cents per, a price most online music lovers will probably agree is pretty much what it should have been from the beginning.
Not only but also, there’s a further 10% discount for album buys)
And speaking of iTunes, it’s been “repeatedly criticised for raising the prices of music downloads”, TunesPro.com says in a statement interestingly entitled iTunes & Napster Blasted By Music Download Watchdogs, and going on:
“Single track downloads recently rose from 99c to $1.29 on iTunes which prompted competing music sites Amazon, Napster, & CDUniverse to also raise prices.”
Of course, with prices as low as 19 cents, or $2.39 for a compete album, plus a 10% discount, certain questions are raised, such as how is the company able to offer “individual songs for as little as 19c, with additional 10% discounts given to consumers who purchase full albums”?
And »»»
- Is that the price across the board?
- Can buyers share their purchases?
- Does it have arrangements with the major labels? If so, which ones?
- And last but by no means least, Do the artists get any part of this and if so, how much and how are they paid?
So we asked.
PS – Did we mention TunesPro.com is registered in the Palestinian Territories?
Stay tuned.
(Cheers, Monkey)
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
taken down – EMI boots Bluebeat off the net, November 6, 2009
statement – iTunes & Napster Blasted By Music Download Watchdogs, November 19, 2009
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November 18th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
For me the price per track i s $-1000 until all the corporate entertainment parasites are dead.
Then we will do the health insurances, the pharmaceutical/Biotech, the oil companies, the weapon companies. . .
Finally our societies will be triving again, freedom and democracies will be restore, progress will resume, wars poverty pollution will decrease. Finally!
All the mega corporations of parasites who serve only themselves must be leveled to the ground.
Very strong law preventing corporations to buy entire governments should be put in place.
Parasites must be flushed out of our world.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Alas, supply and demand do dictate the price on most of those industries, however digital entertainment isn’t one of them.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
I’d pay 19 cents for Paul Hardcastle’s greatest hit.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Tunespro in Palestine Territories, that MAY NOT be a good thing. While no actual proof is anywhere found in this article, I speculate that it is possible that this may be run by an organization like say HAMAS or others like it, while it would cost to run the servers, it wont be 19 cents for the bandwidth and space, but if ya get enough bulk sales, 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 cents or even a penny would be a fundraising endeavour. IMO
November 18th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
” Alas, supply and demand do dictate the price on most of those industries, however digital entertainment isnât one of them. ”
True, that’s what makes this observation a little . odd .. don’t ya think …
“âSingle track downloads recently rose from 99c to $1.29 on iTunes which prompted competing music sites Amazon, Napster, & CDUniverse to also raise prices.â
If it were REAL competition, those prices wouldn’t have changed, or shouldn’t have at least. REAL competitors would have just laughed and raked in the extra traffic. How obvious does price fixing and collusion have to be ?
November 19th, 2009 at 2:03 am
I checked out their site, and I highly doubt any money goes to the artists. If you search a group, such as Nickelback, all it has are 5 songs, and 2 of them are duplicates from different albums. If they had any type of agreement with the artists, they would have at least an album, not just spuratic placements of songs. But hey, seeing as where they are located, I think it will be up for a very long time. Let’s see if the Big 4 or 3 can get at them..lol
November 19th, 2009 at 4:04 am
The Russian services didn’t bother me…. at all. However there is a much higher than 0 chance that the profits from this may fund rockets launched into Israel or the like.
I’ll pass.
November 19th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
wasn’t Earth Station V registered in the Palestinian territories?
November 19th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
@ K
Yup.
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/827
Cheers!
November 23rd, 2009 at 11:19 am
http://www.tunespro.com/artist/773/nickelback
Sir Sabre learn how to do search lol
Also whois is a joke, 90% of the info there is fake, my guess is that guys are just screwing around with everyone saying they are in palestine, maybe they could put Vatican instead lol.