DJ-CHRIS said:
I think the pricing of current online commmercial music is great.
Itunes has great selection, and it's only 99 cents a song. The main issue IMO is how to pay and DRM.
how's it fair that you pay 99cents per song from Itunes, and in britain it's 99pence per song...
with the current exchange rate british people are paying $1.92
but we do get a little break, if we buy via Napster we only pay 79 pence, and that's only $1.53... still only few cents more
so yes, assuming that I got to pay 50pence per track, I'd buy music from Itunes.
it it was only 50p then I'd happily put up with the DRM restrictions, and I'd happily put up with the fact that I couldn't play it on my windows based phone...
actually, who am I kidding, if I buy a single track, or if I buy a whole CD, I'm paying for the right to listen for that CD, i've bought into an EULA that says that I can listen to that CD at my leisure,
I agree to not distribute, broadcast or publically play the songs, and in return I get to be able to listen to the songs whenever I like...
A huge part of the reason that places like allofmp3.com are sucessful is that they don't enforce DRM onto people...
incidentally...
on the subject of DRM, (and since someone mentioned blu-ray as a drm forcing issue has anyone heard this (somewhat damming) report about windows Vista?
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
BigLu said:
root, you are incorrect my friend, that is One Trillion Six Hundred Fifty Billion dollars. 1,000 = thousand, 1,000,000 = million, 1,000,000,000 = billion, 1,000,000,000,000 = trillion
also, you said it's 1 bilion sixhundred and fifty thousand million. a thousand million is a billion, so how can there be 1 billion and 650 billion lol.
Noob
go back and read read what I said...
In Britain, and in the english language, (not americanised english language)
1,000 = one thousand
1,000,000 = one million
1,000,000,000 = one thousand million (or one milliard)
1,000,000,000,000 = one billion
to further elaborate the point I asked if bill gates fortune was measured by the English or the americans, percause he'd be a factor of a thousand times more risher if he was a billionaire by british scales rather than american scales.
Duh
Yes you just have been...
perhaps if you had learned to read properly before critisising?
or would that have been too much hard work,
perhaps you were just waiting for a chance to use that picture...
anyway, as I said...
learn to read noob.