Would You Pay 5 Cents For a Song? 905
irikar writes "An academic at McGill University has a simple plan to stop the plague of unauthorized music downloads on the Internet. But it entails changing the entire music industry as we know it, and Apple Computers, which may have the power to make the change, is listening."
Yes (Score:5, Funny)
5 cents? I want more (Score:2, Funny)
Dear Slashdot: More Apple Stories Please (Score:2, Funny)
Depends on the song, of course (Score:4, Funny)
5 cents? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:25-cent a song is what it takes (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I will stop downloading (Score:5, Funny)
Won't someone think of the executives?!
Re:Yes (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Clearly doesn't understand IT costs (Score:5, Funny)
"So, Apple now has to run power-hungry servers with a large staff of IT guys making sure they're patched and running correctly."
I think the general consensus here is "artists and record companies should stop being so greedy." In the spirit of this goal to drive music to $0.05, perhaps IT guys should stop being greedy as well, and just work for the pure joy of providing music, rather than for a salary.
Yes, I know, IT guys have to pay rent or mortgage and support families. Yet artists and employees of record companies do, too. If they can suck it up in the new Slashdot world music order, so can IT professionals.
Yep. And it is called.... (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah - it is called "monopoly".
Don't Fear The Ripper (Score:1, Funny)
All of which begs the question--would you pay 5 cents for MORE COWBELL???
I tried, I really tried (Score:5, Funny)
Peering out from under his de rigueur cap, music-industry veteran Sandy Pearlman, a former producer of the Clash and now a visiting scholar at McGill, spoke with a kind of nervous glee while describing his idea at the Canadian Music Week conference in Toronto last week.
Awful, vapid writing? You're soaking in it.
Re:No matter what free will always win... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No matter what free will always win... (Score:2, Funny)
To answer the question that the OP states, a low legal price point that is convenient for people to buy much and which also compensates the people who worked so you could get the music is good for the industry. If so many people buy the music, there won't be free online places to download it from and so people will say "five pennies, no problem".
The suggestion that it's a good idea that the computer companies buy up record companies and become media conglomerates fills me with dread.
Re:No matter what free will always win... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I will stop downloading (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No matter what free will always win... (Score:1, Funny)
and if i took gramer nazi 101 i might actually care
*note spellling and grammer mistakes in this post were intentional
Re:P2P (Score:3, Funny)
Yes...last time I checked the Slashdot Hive Mind's position on copyright infringement did change overnight. That was very insightful of you to pick up on it.
It is a good thing you did post anonymously. I hope you also used either an open 802.11 connection (with a wireless card that you stole or can't be tracked back to you) or at least bounced your connection across 3 or more anonymous proxies. If not, I fear your life may be in danger.
Take care my friend and don't let the man keep you down! Keep up the good fight!
Re:No matter what free will always win... (Score:1, Funny)
obviously you aren't into tantra
Re:No matter what free will always win... (Score:3, Funny)
Yep. They don't even coat those 5-cent songs with bit-rot retardant.