![]() ![]() Most music stores carry a very poor selection of CD’s, especially if you are a fan of non-top40 music. Some few stores allow you to return them for partial credit. Most CD’s today are composed of 1-2 good songs and the rest is filler. High CD prices have killed the impulse purchase for all except the wealthy. To the person who has earned their money the hard way, the quality of music is important to them. The biggest advantage of Kazaa is that you can listen to music before you buy it. Now, if Apple is able to provide a similar service integrated with iTunes, with good quality and reasonable prices, I can see a lot of people actually signing up for it.Īs for the DRM, Apple has a history of “simple, not too-in-your-face” software/hardware (the iPod is broadly recognised by the HCI community as one of the best examples of usability there is) so I can imagine they can do a good job with it (meaning DRM will not bother you at all if you are a good boy If your pipe is fat enough, you don’t even have to download the files, and you get unlimited access to your “library” for streaming from everywhere (no DRM) It is the closest I’ve been to “the biggest mp3 collection on earth”. While the quality of their encoding was irregular (some were encoded with Fraunhoffer, some with the crappy Xing), their selection of music (mostly independent labels, some big names, some really freaky music) is great. It is indeed a wonderfull feeling to be able to download heaps of mp3s legally. There was a time (when I could afford it I was an eMusic subscriber. Sorry I just had to get all this stuff of my chest. I think that in 20 years there wont be a high tech America left, and that all development will have moved to China or Taiwan, where the laws and government are not as opressive. ![]() If this goes further America might as well outlaw all electronic devices, because somebody might use them in a way not described in the manual. Look at DMCA and other horrible stuff being passed as LAW. Not living in America I am not really qualified to judge, but it seems to me that America is turning into a “corporate-police” state were laywers incite fear to keep profits up. Personally I find America to be a sad and opressed country when you can sue students for “billions” of dollars over music. Of course in America multi billion law suits might stop some, but the truth is that most will estimate the chance of getting caught as small and then do it anyway. People will go for the cheapest “just-good-enough” solution (look Windows vs Apple). Even making them listen to the real thing doesn’t help, so the argument won’t hold. Most people I know consider the sound made by a cheap $50 stereo to be “high quality”. One of the above posters mentioned the horrible quality that you get from P2P networks, while I personally agree, I don’t really see the vast majority of people thinking that way. ![]()
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