I currently have many friends with substantial mp3 music collections. I have recently gotten into discussions with some of them about swapping our entire collections using our external hard drives. We're talking about 10,000+ songs being shared between 2 people in a matter of minutes.Why do I mention this? Because I'm frantically flaunting this capability in front of the music industry's noses. On purpose. Rubbing their noses in it. Not because I'm an asshole, but because I want to make a point. You can sue your customers into oblivion, lobby the government until you're blue in the face, unless you adapt to new technology instead of fight it - you will lose.
CRIA: Here's something for you to chew on - I'm more than willing to actually BUY from an online vendor that sells DRM-free mp3 music files of signed artists to Canadians. Except that none exists! Not one. Wal-Mart, Amazon - all American services only. So if you want to get with some more of my money, find a way to sell me what I want. AAAARRGH!
The choice isn't spectacular for signed artists, but the sites are still great, DRM-free and give around 70% of sales back to the artists - radically more than traditional channels or big vendors like Amazon or iTunes. Check out emusic (my fave) or zunior (Canadian counterpart)
ReplyDeleteI use emusic myself, which carry many Canadian artists. Hadn't heard of zunior, but I'll be checking it out.
ReplyDeleteI have 6786 files on my external....could always use more
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