Napster 2.0
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- CyBrainX0
Radiosilent, your attitude towards our profession is ignorant and easily dismissed as a random insult.
Your math about the songs per day/hour/etc, is convoluted.
Here's some math for you: If you buy a CD with an average of say, 15 songs, you spent about 99¢ a song and you have them for any amount of use you want. You can make your own mp3s and put them on an unlimited number of devices, unlike Apple's restrictions. With the CD, you also have the PACKAGING which you must know is the mojority of the expense of manufacturing. Apparently, you have no interest in the packaging or even the possibility of getting enhanced content. Apparently, you like being told where you can put your files too.
Here's some more math about subscription services. I belong to http://www.emusic.com where I pay $15 per month for UNLIMITED MP3s. Think about that for a while. I download several CDs per month. In the beginning, it was a lot more than that. How much per song does that add up to? If I download 10 CDs per month, it's 10¢ PER SONG.
You also seemed to be upset about piracy, which I never brought up, but since your undies are in a bind, I'll let you know how I feel about the recording industry, who sues it's teenage customers and lobbied to convince people that theft as heinous as reserving a book at a library or taking a used newpaper or recording on VHS from your television. It's all out war. I wish them the most costly of deaths.
Musicians will unfortunately have to make money elsewhere, subscription based sales, performing, etc. If you're in bed with Satan, expect bad things to happen.