Don't Pay Multiple Times... Just Keep Paying For The Rest Of Your Life
from the he's-only-half-wrong dept
Napster's president is getting some press this morning for pointing out how ridiculous it is that people have to buy the same music multiple times in order to have the same music for full songs and ringtones (which can be much more expensive for a 30 second clip than it costs to download the whole song). Of course, it's pretty easy to make a very similar argument back against Napster's model (which is obviously what he's trying to promote) by saying it's equally ridiculous that someone who's spent thousands of dollars on downloading music could then find all that music completely gone should (a) Napster go out of business or (b) the user stop paying the monthly fees. In fact, some people would say that the Napster model is a lot worse. Instead of paying "multiple times" for the same song, Napster users are stuck paying for the same songs every month, for life.
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Napster is a service, not a product
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Artistic Expression Should Be Free For All
It's ART and there's a message from the creator to be shared with the world. The only person who should be profiting from this is the person who made it. And they can make plenty to live off of from concerts, merchandise sold, and plain ole friendly DONATIONS from the people who are TRUELY thankful for the gift that has been given to them.
This mainstream BS needs to stop and the "pretty" assholes that "make" it need to go away.
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Subscription choice not for everybody
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Wasn't my analogy. It was the guy at Napster. I agree it's quite different, but if HE'S going to use it to promote Napster, you gotta realize it can be used the other way as well.
The point isn't to knock subscription services, but to knock the claim that subscription services are better than pay-per-download because you have to pay more than once for something.
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