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Reading this...
tass: i really like the last line [of the article]
tass: but heck
tass: i'd pay $50-$100 for an annual license to download whatever
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enotsola: that is a good line, yet..
tass: i'm sure most people would
enotsola: err, yes
enotsola: I probably would
tass: since with your bandwidth...
tass: you'd get um...
tass: well, thousands of dollars worth.
tass: heh.
tass: and yet
tass: that's "thousands of dollars worth" in the current model. i mean, it costs a lot more to produce and market a physical CD than it does to serve 5 megabytes.
tass: so maybe
tass: you'd only get hundreds of dollars worth.
enotsola: *nods* still though..
tass: surely you'd get some dedicated "abusers"
tass: but most people would only get as much as they'd really paid for
enotsola: they'd be making more on it than they are now
tass: definitely true
tass: a per-year membership to.. whatever.. an online version of BMG or Columbia House.. (except less invasive) would prolly be VERY effective
tass: heck
tass: i'd pay for that.
tass: part of the reason being...
tass: i'd be guaranteed the files were perfect
tass: and on my bandwidth, that matters, in terms of wasting my time downloading
tass: and in the US, where not everyone has broadband and what there is gets more impacted with every new subscriber.. that matters
tass: unlike you lucky canucks :-P
tass: i really like the last line [of the article]
tass: but heck
tass: i'd pay $50-$100 for an annual license to download whatever
enotsola: that is a good line, yet..tass: i'm sure most people would
enotsola: err, yesenotsola: I probably wouldtass: since with your bandwidth...
tass: you'd get um...
tass: well, thousands of dollars worth.
tass: heh.
tass: and yet
tass: that's "thousands of dollars worth" in the current model. i mean, it costs a lot more to produce and market a physical CD than it does to serve 5 megabytes.
tass: so maybe
tass: you'd only get hundreds of dollars worth.
enotsola: *nods* still though..tass: surely you'd get some dedicated "abusers"
tass: but most people would only get as much as they'd really paid for
enotsola: they'd be making more on it than they are nowtass: definitely true
tass: a per-year membership to.. whatever.. an online version of BMG or Columbia House.. (except less invasive) would prolly be VERY effective
tass: heck
tass: i'd pay for that.
tass: part of the reason being...
tass: i'd be guaranteed the files were perfect
tass: and on my bandwidth, that matters, in terms of wasting my time downloading
tass: and in the US, where not everyone has broadband and what there is gets more impacted with every new subscriber.. that matters
tass: unlike you lucky canucks :-P
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Date: Sep. 19th, 2003 11:33 pm (UTC)From:Hell, we might just go back to the old days of swapping disks by hand again *gasp* to duck the RIAA. I mean, it's not like we're reliant on 5.25/3.5 disks and their crappy payloads anymore...