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Posted by dadiOH on 10/15/92 11:25
Marco wrote:
> My opinion is that at the moment it's not worth purchasing music
> online. Here's my reasons:
>
> 1. Downloading music is expensive
>
> What costs are involved with this form of purchase to studios and
> artists. I'm doing all the work, selecting, downloading, transferring.
> No CD package, no artwork, no shipping costs -- sorry, songs should be
> much cheaper.
>
> 2. Music licensing of online music is restrictive
>
> I investigated a lot of different places recently such as iTunes,
> Napster, MS and so forth. I was shocked to find how restrictive and
> limiting all of them are in regards to music licensing.
>
> I don't want to pay for music, download it and a year later discover
> it can't be transferred to another computer or MP3 player. Or, as in
> the case of Napster, that the music I downloaded doesn't belong to me
> anymore once subscription is canceled.
>
> And, no, I don't want to deal with tranfering licenses, copying my MS
> license info from on PC to another and any of that other stuff.
> Haven't I done enough work downloading in the first place?
>
> As well, what's really frustrating is that they don't clarify
> licensing restrictions on the onset, you have to spend an hour to
> find that information on most services. Like, you can only transfer
> the songs you buy twice, or three times -- I'd like to know that up
> front.
>
> 3. Slaved to music download companies encoding and audio codecs
>
> You have to deal with a mess of different codecs, MP3 players are not
> compatible with all services and you're limited to the bitrate used by
> the service which is usually 128 kbps.
>
> You're better off just buying a CD, in my opinion (until CD's switch
> over copy protection and become limiting as well). At the moment, they
> seem to give the best features in regards to fair practice copying and
> quality of encoding/codecs (which you can decide yourself, use
> whatever your MP3 player likes best).
>
> The only music download place I actually thought was fair and I
> ultimately subscribed to was eMusic, great quality MP3's (many are 320
> kbps) and no licencing restrictions. But, the one problem with eMusic,
> is that their selection of new music is practically non-existent.
>
> Any comments or opinions on this??
As CQ might say...
Argggg! It's a pirate's life for you, matey.
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