BuyMusic.com launches Windows answer to iTunes

Crono · 07-23-2003, 05:34 PM

Hmmm... you know, I'd rather not pay money for my music. And I couldn't care less what record companies think.

Even with these legal music download programs, the majority of people will still be getting their music free from other programs. Kind of useless, and a waste of time.

Null · 07-23-2003, 05:52 PM

its a start. wont be the answer. but a start.

i personally would be all over a legal way that has a MONTHLY payment instead of a payment per song.

one dallar a song. have a thousand songs costing a thousand dollars. i just dont like that.

id rather have it more like an internet charge. pay so much get as much as you want. :P

gekko · 07-23-2003, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Crono

Hmmm... you know, I'd rather not pay money for my music. And I couldn't care less what record companies think.

I'd rather not pay for my car, or insurance, or computer, or food, or movies, or games, or electricity. You have one year before you need to enter into the real world. In the real world, if you want something, you have to work for it. Nothing comes free. You won't go anywhere in life if you expected things to be given to you. Just my advice, take it or leave it. Oh, and my suggestion to help you, radio.

And to Null, the problem is your monthly fee needs to pay for the service, and be split among many different record companies, who want their share. Let's say I'm a big Madonna fan, and I purchase her songs. The money would go to Maverick records, as it should. Now if I payed a monthly fee, and I listened mostly to Madonna, the money would be split between many different record companies. I don't think Maverick would be happy that other companies are making money off their album.

Most people who have 1,000 songs did not download them all. They are made up mostly from CDs that they own, and probably for many years. I don't think many people would really be downloading a thousand songs.

Null · 07-23-2003, 06:26 PM

you'd be very surprised then to find out how many ppl actually download. i had known ppl from old clans in Q3 that had near 10,000 all downloaded.

i had known ppl who set it to download a couple hundred a night. while they slept.

i used to download a fair amount

altho i dont anymore. i find it easier to visit my friends house. who has walls and walls of CD's they've bought. they litteratly have thousands of CD's countless songs

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And this war the RIAA is fighting has all been done before. over and over. everytime something new comes out theres ppl to fight it.

radio, cassette tapes, cd's, CD Burners. multiple phones in home off single phone line. multiple tv's over sigle cable connection.

the future will move on no matter how they fight it. you learn to adapt or you go crazy like the RIAA is.

gekko · 07-23-2003, 06:28 PM

RIAA's prime targets

Null · 07-23-2003, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by gekko

RIAA's prime targets

im sure they are too. But i have no longer any contact with thoes ppl so i dunno what they do anymore. most of them were in college universities when they were doing that so *shug*

Seven7 · 07-23-2003, 09:12 PM

bleeping BuyMusic.com blocks Mozilla Firebird and recomends me to download "IE" AKA Integrated Evil in order to see their site. The main page however didn't block my Opera 7.20beta browser though.

*shakes fist*

GameMaster · 07-23-2003, 09:31 PM

So use IE, what's the big deal?

As long as you don't permenant with it

Seven7 · 07-23-2003, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by GameMaster

So use IE, what's the big deal?

As long as you don't permenant with it

*Sighs* I'm not that desperate GameMaster, to use IE 5.5

I have not tried it yet but there is a extension or two that can change useragent so you can trick the site in thinking that you are using IE, but the downside is that it defeats the purpose of Evangelism.

adds BuyMusic.com to my list of sites for Evangelism.

Null · 07-27-2003, 02:36 PM

BTW..... www.listen.com

thats one of the others i was thinking of. and actually after looking at it.... its not per song.

its roughly $25 quarterly payments $100 per year. For UNLIMITED ACCESS. have to read more on it to see what its really about. but hey. if you download a lot and want to be legal. at first glance thats a hell of a lot better then per song.

of course thats not good if you dont download a lot.