the problem with 79 cents per song is you get a compressed song, not the
CD quality original song, and you pay as much as a CD per song, yet they
have no distribution, retailing, packaging costs. More major highway
robbery than ever. Compressed songs are worth 21 cents by my
calculations (please don't ask for my non-existent calculations).
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 09:19, Steven Buehler wrote:
> --- Eric Jahn <eric@ejahn.net> wrote:
> > The RIAA would have no easy way of catching a stream ripper, but
> > possession of ripped streaming media still sounds as illegal as a song
> > ripped from a CD.
>
> Same goes for downloading .mp3 files from Usenet--no way to track them but
> just as illegal.
>
> I finally decided to "go legal" and signed up with MusicNow for $9.95/month
> and 79 cents per "portable download". Only problem is that it only supports
> Windows Media Player. I'm eagerly anticipating the iTunes service becoming
> available soon for PC users (although next spring I plan on replacing the
> Thinkpad with an iBook so that might become irrelevant).
>
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>
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> Music Site: http://www.mp3.com/renaitre
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