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personally, this is a lame decision, and of course it happens as im about to start using itunes as a store.
Well I have read all coments to this point and I know that everyone thinks that this change is terrible but according to my older brother songs are no longer protected. When I say this I mean that you can transfer songs from computer to computer with ease now so in order to make that $1.39 really worth it, just transfer the song to your freinds computer too.
I constantly turn to iTunes for music, and I don't see a big problem with this situation, if any. Apple had a similar phase with the plus songs slightly more expensive than the normal song when the new "feature" was first introduced, and before this new price change in the iTunes market sprang up, the plus songs were treated with the same monterey value as any normal song on its marketplace. In my opinion, the price difference will someday make its way back to the $0.99 cost, ad did the plus songs. Though I can be wrong. I'm only predicting off of past events!
Yeah, but it's not like songs were always inhibited by DRM. It's just a device that the stores purposely put on the music you buy. And it was $0.99 before then, too. There's no reason to increase the price except for greed.
Honestly guys, is the extra 30 cents gonna kill ya? I've been an avid iTunes purchaser since I got my first iPod in 2005, and I love it. High-quality music, no risk of viruses or anything of the sort, and downloads are easy to find, nice and speedy, and it comes with that beautiful album artwork. Just pay for your music. Seriously. You have the satisfaction of knowing you didn't steal or break any laws, and you have a high-quality song waiting to be listened to. Just suck it up and be a contributing member of society.
Addressing the first paragraph: Those extra 30 cents may seem small for the one-time buy, but for people who do have to buy tons of music at once, it builds up quickly. I despise using iTunes for anything other than syncing up my iPod. I have to deal with using the dumbed-down Windows version of iTunes, which is horribly mismatched with the Windows interface. And since when should someone else decide where I can put my music on? I don't want to pay extra money to buy 'features' that make it harder for me to use my own data. Buying music and movies off of iTunes meant that my other devices, like my PSP and MP4 player couldn't get those music tracks. Sure, now they added the DRM-free tracks, but with the upwards price trend, I'm looking for different music stores to buy my music from. Until then, since I want a music collection I can count on whenever I need to reformat my computer (plenty of times), I pirate. And I didn't know that the MP3 copies of AAC DRM-impaired files were so much lower quality that it was worth paying extra for! Wow! Another whole 56 kHz! Really, by that time I'd have just converted my FLAC collection. By the way, I've always been able to just allow iTunes to download/append all the proper metadata/album art for my songs. Oh, and one last thing for that paragraph. Viruses? On MY disposable virtual machine? No way. Addressing second paragraph: Please read above post about who the real thieves are, and why piracy is NOT killing the music industy (and why it's actually saving it!)
That sounds ****. Up until now I have been using an illegal but free download site to get my music (it remains unnamed so I don't get the infraction for talking about illegal content, if it's unnamed you don't know what I'm on about), but then Mallet showed me Spotify. Spotify buys music from the creators and pays for thsi by letting people advertise on their site. They also charge for a premium membvership, which is faster and has no ads. It's free and completely legal. So leave behind your iTunes and your Nappsters and your unnamed illegal download services, because there's a new one here!
Hasn't Apple claimed that their music is now CD quality as well? Most people wouldn't even be able to tell the difference... Apple is getting greedy... and I think that their products are so popular right now that nothing will stop them...
Napster was the single greatest idea, ever. Users would pay for a subscription fee to get an all-you-can-eat download plan per month. Based off of the popularity of your music, Napster would pay the recording industries a certain amount. It would have resulted in a win-win situation for everyone, the consumers, the artists, and even the recording companies. But instead of altering their business model to be able to garner more success from this field, they instead focused their money and attention into crushing Napster. The end result was only rampant piracy. Good job, recording industries. You killed Bush and put in Stalin.
I couldn't agree with you more! Maybe they'll catch on someday.... I sincerely thought they would have started mimicking napster's service plan over a year ago... or atleast when the new version of itunes was released... ah well.
Now that is just a flawed statement. Piracy may have led to the decline of the profit of the music industry, but another cause is video games. Bad loans are the big cause of our recession. Our debt to China is a big cause of our recession. The music industry is entertainment, it does not hold a significant part of our economy. According to Eioba, this is the typical family's budget. Spoiler Typical Household Budget Percentages 33-38% Housing (59%-66% of this is on shelter - mortgage interest, property taxes, repairs, and rent, and other items) 15-19% Transportation (38-48 of this is vehicle purchase - 2 cars per household average) 13-14% Food Budget (55% at home, 45% away) 0-2% Alcohol 0-3% Tobacco and related products 0-2% Caffeine related products 4-5% On clothing and related services (drycleaning) 4.5 - 6% on out of pocket Health Care 9% Personal Insurance and Pensions (breakdown: 1% life and other personal insurance, 7.5% SS, .5% investment 5% Entertainment 2.5% Charitable Contributions 2% Reading and Education 1% Personal Care products and services 2% Miscellaneous 4% Credit Card, Consumer Loan Interest 5% on entertainment. For a 40,000 dollar a year income, that comes to 2,000, including all other forms of entertainment. So don't blame the recession on the pirates.