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Title: The Customer is Always Wrong
Post by: The Jade Knight on September 03, 2005, 01:50:40 PM

http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/guide/

Your guide to DRM subscription services.

My recommendation?  Avoid them.

Title: Re: The Customer is Always Wrong
Post by: Spriggan on September 03, 2005, 02:00:04 PM

Well good luck finding a legal sites that don't use DRMs, unfortunately they're necessary due to all the thieves out there.

Title: Re: The Customer is Always Wrong
Post by: The Jade Knight on September 03, 2005, 05:19:58 PM

Actually, if you bothered looking at the article, you'd notice that it lists four legal sites that don't use DRMs.


Anyone got any guesses at what percent of that 99¢ you pay to iTunes actually goes to the artist?

Title: Re: The Customer is Always Wrong
Post by: Spriggan on September 03, 2005, 09:22:58 PM

Probably as much as they get for a single song on a CD which is very little, artists get most of their money from concerts and promotional events.  My guess would be $.09 since apple gets about a third of the money and the music label gets the other 2/3s.

Title: Re: The Customer is Always Wrong
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on September 03, 2005, 09:42:38 PM

You would be right sprig. Although from what I had read Apple does give the artist a taste from their share too.

Title: Re: The Customer is Always Wrong
Post by: The Jade Knight on September 03, 2005, 10:04:49 PM

I'm not aware that they do, Jeffe.

And it may be noted that the Label actually takes a chunk of that 9¢ (it's somewhere right around there) for production costs, which are, indeed, "charged" to artist royalties.


You'd actually be doing the artist a favour if you downloaded a bunch of music "illegally" and then sent the artist a check worth 25¢/song, rather than buying the music off of iTunes.  And you'd get higher-quality, DRM-free music, to boot.

Title: Re: The Customer is Always Wrong
Post by: Spriggan on September 03, 2005, 10:22:33 PM

Well there's no point in having anything about 128 bit-rate unless you've got a SONY or one of the creative's and a few other non-apple MP3 players since most have such horrible sound on them you wouldn't notice a difference.

Title: Re: The Customer is Always Wrong
Post by: The Jade Knight on September 03, 2005, 10:46:18 PM

iTunes wont work on most mp3 players.


And I happen to own a Creative with 98db SNR, and wonderful sound quality.

I rip mp3s at insanely high quality (128-360kbps LAME VBR).

Title: Re: The Customer is Always Wrong
Post by: JP Dogberry on September 03, 2005, 11:07:18 PM

LAME VBR.

Anything else is NOT worth using.

And RIAA are the only thieves.

Title: Re: The Customer is Always Wrong
Post by: Spriggan on September 04, 2005, 12:21:27 AM

Quote

iTunes wont work on most mp3 players.

I was makeing a blanket statment dealing with most online music stores not iTunes in general, should have stated that though.

Title: Re: The Customer is Always Wrong
Post by: stacer on September 09, 2005, 02:23:09 AM

What's DRM?

Title: Re: The Customer is Always Wrong
Post by: stacer on September 09, 2005, 02:24:52 AM

Um, nevermind. I have now read the article and have no more questions.  :P