Music

[andrewducker]

Napster's charging me £10 a month for unlimited streaming.

MSN Music are willing to charge me 1p per stream.

Do I listen to 1000 songs a month?  That's 30 songs a day.  120 minutes on average.  I'm not sure I do.

Hmmmmmmm.

Comments

[theferrett.livejournal.com]

Heh. You said p stream.

Sincerely,
An American

[guybles.livejournal.com]

The answer is simple: don't rent music. Both Napster and MSN Music have a fundamentally flawed business model, which largely revolves around trying to con you into continuously paying them money for something you get for free elsewhere...say, your CD collection. Or internet streaming radio. Or filesharing!

(please note that I was very restrained and did not say iTMS by default)

[shannon_a]

The answer is simple: don't support Microsoft. They have a predatory business model specifically designed to drive competitors out of business, even if they have to take a tempory loss to do so. By not supporting them, you support innovation and independent companies.

[andrewducker]

What they offer that none of those do is convenience. I can have instant access to a wide variety of music that would take me ages to track down in other ways.

[andrewducker]

Actually, by supporting MS in this case, I'm supporting OD2, who are also behind about 15 other UK music services. So far as I can tell there are no independent music companies that offer me most music.

Any way round I'm still effectively just dealing with a middle man for the major music producing companies.