Slashdot reports that the record companies want online music stores to up the prices on downloadable music from 99 cents per track to somewhere between $1.25 and $3. My music downloading habits center around immediate gratification. If there’s a song I want to hear right now, I generally download it. Before the iTunes Music Store, I downloaded songs using Gnutella if I wanted to hear them. Now I buy them for 99 cents. I don’t think the prices would have to go up a whole lot for me to fire up the Gnutella client again (something I haven’t done literally for months).
Related: Ed Felten, A Grand Unified Theory of File Sharing. I fall completely into the sampler category of file sharers (actually no category right now, as I don’t use any file sharing clients).
Pricing downloadable music
Slashdot reports that the record companies want online music stores to up the prices on downloadable music from 99 cents per track to somewhere between $1.25 and $3. My music downloading habits center around immediate gratification. If there’s a song I want to hear right now, I generally download it. Before the iTunes Music Store, I downloaded songs using Gnutella if I wanted to hear them. Now I buy them for 99 cents. I don’t think the prices would have to go up a whole lot for me to fire up the Gnutella client again (something I haven’t done literally for months).
Related: Ed Felten, A Grand Unified Theory of File Sharing. I fall completely into the sampler category of file sharers (actually no category right now, as I don’t use any file sharing clients).
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