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--- Quote from: pcolson on December 07, 2008, 05:39:31 pm ---I responded to the price question with $.75 - $1, but I also had to say that I wouldn't buy it at that price. I won't buy music again until it is offered without restrictions. I should be able to listen to it on any device I want, and the licence should be permanent. For those of you who buy music on itunes, read the agreement. If itunes ever shuts down, all of those licenses are gone. Brutal.

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Anything I buy from the iTunes store gets burned to a CD-RW and re-imported into iTunes.  I'm not trying to "steal" or "give away" the songs, but the DRM has consequences for honest users  (e.g. - I can't play the track in AudioSurf). 

CheffoJeffo:


--- Quote from: DaveMMR on December 07, 2008, 06:12:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: pcolson on December 07, 2008, 05:39:31 pm ---I responded to the price question with $.75 - $1, but I also had to say that I wouldn't buy it at that price. I won't buy music again until it is offered without restrictions. I should be able to listen to it on any device I want, and the licence should be permanent. For those of you who buy music on itunes, read the agreement. If itunes ever shuts down, all of those licenses are gone. Brutal.

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Anything I buy from the iTunes store gets burned to a CD-RW and re-imported into iTunes.  I'm not trying to "steal" or "give away" the songs, but the DRM has consequences for honest users  (e.g. - I can't play the track in AudioSurf). 

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+1 ...

I use my BB as my MP3 player and Apple's DRM gets in the way (although it is not a deal-breaker since it is easy to bypass). At the same time, iTunes is bloody convenient and my wife makes significant use of it. Sure is better than anything else out there right now.

The interesting question in this is -- you wouldn't buy at that price, but would you obtain a non-licensed copy by alternate means ?

I am not trying to impose a moral judgement on that decision (I have been known to, on occasion, impinge on the intellectual proprety rights of others), but rather to properly gauge the economic impact. In my world, failing to make a sale is not the same as losing a sale to an alternative.

RayB:

Cheffo, it's absolutely not the same, but corporations will always claim whatever helps prop up their side of the argument.

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Cheffo, how's the sound quality of using a BlackBerry as a music player? I've tried using various devices in the past (Dell Axim PDA, Sony Palm OS PDA, Samsung cell phone, etc) and in side by side tests none of them could hold a candle to the sound rendering of an Ipod.
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I filled out the survey, but I must say it's a little flawed. For one, it doesn't take into account free music. I listen to a heck of a lot of LAST.fm instead of purchasing music. Also I don't think it made a clear distinction between music as a physical tangible product and music as a digital download.


CheffoJeffo:


--- Quote from: RayB on December 07, 2008, 07:10:54 pm ---<offtopic>
Cheffo, how's the sound quality of using a BlackBerry as a music player? I've tried using various devices in the past (Dell Axim PDA, Sony Palm OS PDA, Samsung cell phone, etc) and in side by side tests none of them could hold a candle to the sound rendering of an Ipod.
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I've got a Bold and it's pretty decent -- I can't tell the difference between Mrs. Cheffo's iPod and my Bold (even when run through a decent amplifier as we did at Mrs. Cheffo's  birthday party).

It's the first phone/PDA that I have had that I actually use for media playback.

I ADORE the screen ... I watched The Mission on it when I first got it and was totally blown away by both the audio and video performance.



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