Comments on: Virgin Digital downloads for the last time

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:40:29 +0000

mp3sugar’s where it’s at.

By: Gareth Rushgrove

Gareth Rushgrove — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:53:39 +0000

Problem with that low pricing seems to be the volume you need to make the credit card payments for individual transactions go away through dealing directly with a payment processor.

And whether the difference between $0.10 and $0.79 means you get less piracy and more purchases? I’m not so sure.

By: Julian Bond

Julian Bond — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:47:19 +0000

AllOfMp3 is closed down? But I used it today! Admittedly under it’s new name.

I’m still waiting for someone Amazon(?) to do a legitimate western site using the same approach and pricing.

By: paulpod

paulpod — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:33:10 +0000

I used to buy a disproportionate amount of records from a publisher called Factory - they are no longer but I can still my play all my records. I also used to shop at a great dingy record shop in Blackpool - it is long gone, but again all those records work still. I can lend a friend one of my records and they can listen to it and maybe even return it (the buggers). I can make a deep and meaningful mixtape of carefully selected songs for my girlfriend from these records.

What I’m getting at is that DRM can be added to digital music, but it must allow the activities we, the music fans, consider *normal* usage and not aggregate each of those uses as a completely bogus “lost sale”. That way madness, and bankruptcy, lies musicbizpeeps.