see, what will happen if we go down that route is that these MP3s will
just go straight onto p2p and the label/shop/outlet
will make no money.
so the logical next step is what M$ are doing with digital rights
management which is a way of stopping you using a computer for what you
want to do with it....(whose rights are being 'managed') but does
provide a way to stop these things going further than your machine.
aaargh....
at least with vinyl you don't get this, one reason why i suspect it
won't go away in a hurry.
robin...
Mark S. Krüx wrote:
There are a couple of stores tooling up to sell MP3s through their on-line
shops....
More info when I'm 'allowed' to share it.
Lates,
m*
----- Original Message -----
From: "jonathan morse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Lester Kenyatta Spence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <313@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: (313) was groovetech now itunes
I was thinking along that lines too, but in this case apple and their itunes
music store are still a middle man in as much as a record label or
distributor is a middle man. the artist who sells their wares through iTMS
still only recieves a cut of the .99 cents per track just as they only
receive a cut of the selling price regradless if its wholesale or retail
from a 'hard copy' release. I would guess that the day isnt too far off when
you see artists/labels selling their output direct to consumers online using
a similar business plan, especially given the advent of technologies like
final scratch. yes, there is somethng to be said for a slab of vinyl but the
overheads and prfofit margins for establishing and operating a
direct-dowload label would have to be better than for a traditional label I
would think, even if only slightly, which still puts more money in the
pocket of the artist/label owner.
personally, I know I much prefer being able to listen to the tracks on line
from a 12" or LP and purchase only the ones I want at a buck a pop (see the
poker flat web site) vice dropping $10 - $20 bucks for the actual release in
a retail outlet for the other tracks I didn¹t want
From: Lester Kenyatta Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:32:15 -0400 (EDT)
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: (313) was groovetech now itunes
i think that dance music would be the perfect money maker for itunes. as
dj'ing moves away from vinyl, even those who are ideologically predisposed
to pay loot for tracks will find it a time-suck to continually buy tracks
then transform them to mp3. at a buck a pop, who'd fight it?
lks
