Re: [rumori] pho: BK: MTV Gets Down With Downloads


From: Jim Carrico (jimATat.org)
Date: Wed Apr 04 2001 - 20:40:22 PDT


>
>The service will initially have 10,000 tracks available, with singles selling
>for $1.99 and albums selling for $18.98.

bzzzzt!

bad cop, no donut.

are they kidding? hey kids - you can *pay even more* to download an album
than to buy the CD - isn't it *great*!! And as long as you want what we've
decided to give you, you can have *whatever you want*.

i think it was clay shirky who pointed out that the labels need to charge
so much because it's very expensive and difficult to make internet
distribution as inconvenient as real-world distribution...

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