online.wsj.com — Lala.com is like a subscription music service, but without the monthly subscription fee. Lala is betting that in return for getting all that free access to music at home, listeners will pay to buy the songs they want to take with them on iPods and other music players.
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dycacianJun 6, 2007
@fkr3 - I totally agree. I would buy so much more music if I could sample entire albums from my home computer. I listen to 90% of my music on my IPod, and if I get hooked listening on my home computer, which happens to double as my stereo, I will be more than willing to pay for good music to put on my IPod. It is all about exposure. Even if some people steal their music, and I am sure they will, they will be exposing many more people to a much greater range of music. Those that will pay for music will be more likely to buy if they are exposed to more music. They will offset the cost. The feeling I get from reading all about the DRM arguments is that most people would be willing to pay for music, if the distributors were not so greedy abut it. If this site delivers what it says it can, then it is a good first step into a more consumer friendly method of distributing music.
fkr3Jun 6, 2007
@ Fafnir - I'm not for a second suggesting innocent people be punished, I'm advocating guilty people being punished. The courts can decide who's innocent or guilty.If that 20,000 figure is right then the innocent ones are *very* rare exceptions because we only hear about a very small fraction of that number. They get your IP while you're doing it then they get your identity from your ISP, which isn't guaranteed to point to the perpetrator but it seems there's a pretty good chance of a connection between who's using an internet connection and who's paying for that internet connection.
silverravageJun 6, 2007
gomusic.ru FOR THE CHEAP!
airshipJun 6, 2007
Proprietary player. DRM. No thanks.
xaboraJun 6, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://www.lala.com/frontend/action/artist/Nine_Inch_Nails?Q=Artist%3A%20%22Nine%20Inch%20Nails%22&fc=home">http://www.lala.com/frontend/action/artist/Nine_Inch_Nails?Q=Artist%3A%20%22Nine%20Inch%20Nails%22&fc=home</a>Funny, if you click the play icon on a song you will notice it downloads data from upload.wikimedia.com.Something is fishy.
dailyshowboy23Jun 7, 2007
If this service came without DRM and all of the crap that usually comes with promising services, I would be all for it
simplejoe79Jun 7, 2007
well worth checking out.....
bicepNov 23, 2009
I like lala.com one because every song I've seen on there has a "Purchase MP3" button with tooltip-text "Purchase this DRM-Free MP3". Songs appear to start as low as 89 cents each. No DRM, great prices, free to stream music. Move over Amazon MP3, lala.com has a great service too!
rama6091May 1, 2010
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