computers.net— So the question is: Is Amazon big enough to take significant market share away from Apple & friends? If the DRM-free ideal comes true, I think we may have something to look forward to in 2007...
Dec 19, 2006View in Crawl 4
Provided they don't screw up in any of the ways they did with their video service (unreliable play back, draconian EULA, poorly written custom software, and DRM) it could be a success. Any company that can convince major labels to let them sell unencumbered MP3s at a reasonable price is going to do significant damage to Apple's exclusive tie in for the iPod, as others will be able to say they're iPod compatible (like emusic does now). If Amazon did manage to create such a service I think there would quiet a bit of pressure for Apple, Napster, and Rhapsody to follow suit. Of course making it available in multiple formats (which should be easier not have to worry about DRM) would make it all the better, especially if they threw in a lossless format or two. I'd pay $0.99 for a DRM free lossless track.
@ Nerys,As long as you can play it out of speakers it can be copied. So fortunatly this won't be true for a long, long time when the music is playing directly into our brains ;-)
I agree with your post up to and including the price, but if I'm buying songs in bulk, then the price better be considerably better than that. There will be give and take on both sides, but as a consumer, I'm not willing to get completely reamed to buy DRM-free music online, but I'll pay a fair price for it.
If you want to stop pirates.. Give them DRM Free songs.. Stop sueing them and that just makes fan groups and a hord of people who say f**k that s**t and do it out of spit towards RIAA. And the latest news about sueing 12 year olds, etc.. That isn't helping.. Now the RIAA seems to be slowing down as artists are saying.. Hold on why does some company get $2 and I only get 95 cents.. So now RIAA wants to get the government to increase RIAA's profits and decrease artists, as the artists need more protecting.God if there was no RIAA there would be no pirating.. Plain and simple, nobody to enforce not doing it would mean nobody to not do it.Companies like Napster, Kazaa, and the dumb **** that stored the files on servers.. Are just that dumb ****.. Now that is illegal..But this DRM s**t has to stop. I would pay an extra $2 on an album and 1.09 per a song to have NON DRM songs. Hell yah, like come on who wouldn't? P2P is good, but it takes for fing ever to get a song.. I want to click a button and have it. Now have to wait for it to find peers and seeds and than figure out the square root of a icosahedron and times it by .05828847254 to figure out what the area of a fupsoviisjfgks is. I don't give a crap.. I want my song :)iTunes is only good if you have an iPod. If you don't like myself, what is the point? I can't transfer it to my zune, which I LOVE. Even though I strongly hate MS I believe in the Zune :)
Closed AccountDec 20, 2006
If this goes through and Amazon does indeed release DRM-free music I will hold myself to this public promise to buy a minimum of 10 songs.
Closed AccountDec 20, 2006
Provided they don't screw up in any of the ways they did with their video service (unreliable play back, draconian EULA, poorly written custom software, and DRM) it could be a success. Any company that can convince major labels to let them sell unencumbered MP3s at a reasonable price is going to do significant damage to Apple's exclusive tie in for the iPod, as others will be able to say they're iPod compatible (like emusic does now). If Amazon did manage to create such a service I think there would quiet a bit of pressure for Apple, Napster, and Rhapsody to follow suit. Of course making it available in multiple formats (which should be easier not have to worry about DRM) would make it all the better, especially if they threw in a lossless format or two. I'd pay $0.99 for a DRM free lossless track.
kirashiraDec 20, 2006
nothing will beat limewire
decipherdDec 20, 2006
@ Nerys,As long as you can play it out of speakers it can be copied. So fortunatly this won't be true for a long, long time when the music is playing directly into our brains ;-)
pdotnetDec 20, 2006
I'd buy music from Amazon
freffDec 20, 2006
I agree with your post up to and including the price, but if I'm buying songs in bulk, then the price better be considerably better than that. There will be give and take on both sides, but as a consumer, I'm not willing to get completely reamed to buy DRM-free music online, but I'll pay a fair price for it.
dubcanadaDec 30, 2006
If you want to stop pirates.. Give them DRM Free songs.. Stop sueing them and that just makes fan groups and a hord of people who say f**k that s**t and do it out of spit towards RIAA. And the latest news about sueing 12 year olds, etc.. That isn't helping.. Now the RIAA seems to be slowing down as artists are saying.. Hold on why does some company get $2 and I only get 95 cents.. So now RIAA wants to get the government to increase RIAA's profits and decrease artists, as the artists need more protecting.God if there was no RIAA there would be no pirating.. Plain and simple, nobody to enforce not doing it would mean nobody to not do it.Companies like Napster, Kazaa, and the dumb **** that stored the files on servers.. Are just that dumb ****.. Now that is illegal..But this DRM s**t has to stop. I would pay an extra $2 on an album and 1.09 per a song to have NON DRM songs. Hell yah, like come on who wouldn't? P2P is good, but it takes for fing ever to get a song.. I want to click a button and have it. Now have to wait for it to find peers and seeds and than figure out the square root of a icosahedron and times it by .05828847254 to figure out what the area of a fupsoviisjfgks is. I don't give a crap.. I want my song :)iTunes is only good if you have an iPod. If you don't like myself, what is the point? I can't transfer it to my zune, which I LOVE. Even though I strongly hate MS I believe in the Zune :)