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« Reply #30 on: August 01, 2007, 10:18:05 PM » |
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i have 50 gigs of music. i'll pay for music when it'd DRM free. end of story. until then, i'll download music but go to the artist's concerts and buy a shirt/cd/hoodie.
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« Reply #31 on: August 02, 2007, 01:50:37 AM » |
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Just accept that you're a pirate like everyone else.
I, for one, am not a pirate. although being a pirate WOULD be awesome. rather, i believe media should be free. and so, for me, media is free. sue me, please do. I'll spend my life savings taking that case to the supreme court, and free media from it's corporate chains. |
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« Reply #32 on: August 02, 2007, 01:51:36 AM » |
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then counter-sue for damages and time lost.
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« Reply #33 on: August 02, 2007, 02:00:09 AM » |
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then class action and bankrupt those corporate media pimps.
then wear clothes made of money, and take them off in public.
then masturbate? idk yet, i'll think about that one when the time comes.
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« Reply #34 on: August 02, 2007, 01:20:36 PM » |
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Um.. read the article again. 73% of the PRICE of the CD goes towards the Label and Retail stores. The label gets $1.70 profit and the Retail store gets $.80. The artist gets $1.60. The author of the article is painting the picture wrong. He acts like all the money going to the Label is profits, but the breakdown clearly states what profit they're actually getting.
So the label gets roughly 11% profit off the CD Price, the Artists gets 10% profit, the retail store gets about 5%. The rest goes into paying for the CD to made, marketed, distributed, and then sold in a store (Last time I checked this all cost money). Yes you're paying the middle men (Both the retail store and the label), but its not like they don't do anything.
You pay the middle man in most forms of entertainment. Sports, movies, heck even live musicals and plays.
I'm not positive but I'm guessing each artists gets less of a profit off of a subscription service than they would of of their individual CD Sales. Its but I really have no idea how that works.
So 1.70+.80+1.60= 4.10 Shouldnt an mp3 album cost 4.10 rather than .99 per song. They dont have to make a cd or anything with mp3's so shouldnt they be cheaper? |
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« Reply #35 on: August 02, 2007, 01:22:35 PM » |
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an mp3 album on itunes for a 12 - 15 track Album is usually $9.99 so it is cheaper.. But yes the Major labels make a lot more off of a mp3 purchase than they do off of a CD sale. A artist makes more off of a CD sale than off of a mp3 purchase.
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« Reply #36 on: August 02, 2007, 01:50:34 PM » |
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On the other hand bandwidth isn't cheap. 700Mb of bandwidth costs more then a CD, at least for me it would.
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« Reply #37 on: August 02, 2007, 03:28:19 PM » |
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On the other hand bandwidth isn't cheap. 700Mb of bandwidth costs more then a CD, at least for me it would.
Since when do CD's contain 700MB of stuff? They contain way less than that, especially when it is compress to WMA/MP3/AAC Its probably closer to 50-100MB's per CD |
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« Reply #38 on: August 02, 2007, 11:52:42 PM » |
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On the other hand bandwidth isn't cheap. 700Mb of bandwidth costs more then a CD, at least for me it would.
Since when do CD's contain 700MB of stuff? They contain way less than that, especially when it is compress to WMA/MP3/AAC Its probably closer to 50-100MB's per CD Ummm.... 700 MB would be the .wav's -the original CD. Yes, you can make it 50MB a CD, but the question is, do you want to? |
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« Reply #39 on: August 03, 2007, 09:57:04 AM » |
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Ummm.... 700 MB would be the .wav's -the original CD.
Yes, you can make it 50MB a CD, but the question is, do you want to?
The answer is yes. 14 CDs on one CD? Glorious. And by glorious, I mean shittier sound quality. |
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« Reply #40 on: August 12, 2007, 02:30:33 AM » |
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Ummm.... 700 MB would be the .wav's -the original CD.
Yes, you can make it 50MB a CD, but the question is, do you want to?
No. sometimes you just have a flac a bitch. |
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