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| Posted By: damon Posted On: Dec 11, 2004 Views: 1413 | hardly ever buy music nowadays The last time I wanted a copy of a song I went to Target (a department store) and found that the CD it was on was over $20US and had warning stickers about song content. Way too much money for one song on a disk I couldn't let my kids hear. That's a lost sale. I wanted a greatest hits album for an artist. This artist happened to have two different 'greatest hits' recordings, and neither one had all the songs I expected to find, and both had a lot of songs I didn't want. So I didn't buy either. Another lost sale. I would *GLADLY* buy songs a la carte. I don't use P2P to infringe artists' copyrights. In fact, I've never used P2P at all. But I haven't yet found a place to buy, and this is important to me, non-DRM .ogg or .mp3 files. I'm a linux user and if, like me, you support the GPL then you must also respect other's rights to use copyright law to limit how their work is used. But I believe that under Fair Use, I should be able to burn as many copies of a song I as I require for MY USE. If my kid breaks the disk, if I want to migrate to a new computer system, if I want a back-up, etc. I want more music. There are lots of songs from the past and today that I would be happy to shell out money to have in my collection, but I have my limits. If you sell it to me, it has to be on the same terms as it was when I used to by LPs. P2P hasn't made any difference in my buying habits at all, and probably cannot unless it forces the market to let me buy music on my terms. Damon |
| Posted By: K-DAWG Posted On: Feb 21, 2004 Views: 1497 | P2P I bought cd's more now because I will download a song or two and if I like it I buy it. |
| Posted By: Bruce Posted On: Nov 27, 2003 Views: 1739 | P2P AND SALES By the way, I don't use file-sharing networks for music. |
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