Comments on: Grooveshark, first LEGAL P2P music service?

By: ejonesss

ejonesss — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

what kind of reward? money? points good for their online store? points good for download que?

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

From what Ive read you would get credits for more music purchases but probably also cash if theyre charging people to DL your tunes. If you have a 200GB plus music library as I have I wouldnt upload for more music but for cash? Definitely. They have to offer you a cut if theyre charging people for your music to download.

By: meyou123

meyou123 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

FINALLY someone gets it! Here is a company that if they do everything they say could possibly turn the tide on itunes. If people find that they would actually get rewarded (instead of being branded a “criminal”) for uploading their music files and get them DRM free they may start going with this service instead.

That is….IF the RIAA and the recordiong companies they represent… allow it. That is the question….WILL the recording companies finally see that people don’t want DRM music? Will they also understand that rewarding a person for uploading music files to a pay network is better than treating them like scum and then wanting them to play by their rules? Time will tell.

Also pricing will be a big factor in weather or not people come to this service. Will evertything be strictly 99 cents as the industry wants it for each song? Or….Will the recording companies allow this new start up company to distribute music files for UNDER what their “cash cow” itunes is doing? and DRM free at that?

To me that is going to be the determining factor. But I hate to say it as greedy as the music companies are it would not suprise me in the slightest if the said no to this new venture. But they would only be slitting their own throat as most people do not download their tunes from legal scources like the itunes store. Most peoiple think 99 cents is STILL way too expensive for a song.

By: soulxtc

soulxtc — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I know I like this model very much.

By: SpocksBrainOnDrugs

SpocksBrainOnDrugs — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

So would uploaders be advertising to “Come Download From Me” ?

I wonder what sort of quality standards there will be.

By: AussieMatt

AussieMatt — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Peer Impact pitched this exact model to the record lables back in 2004 and the record lables flatly rejected it .
The Major lablels and the independants do not want this model at the moment even if its the right one .

http://www.peerimpact.com

By: meyou123

meyou123 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

@AussieMatt……Things have changed since 2004 the record labels are not nearly as in control of their product as they once were. Mabye they will take a “if you can’t beat them you might as well join them” approach to p2p and losen their grip on how they demand companies set pricing and availability online.

Although like you I also doubt that will happen but they are just slitting their own throat even more if they don’t. It is a no win situation for them.

The lawsuits are not working the scare tactics are not working the “education” of kids is not working and p2p of all kinds is growing….not diminishing….despite the best efforts of the industry to thwart it. So they eventually are going to have to come up with a plan to compete with p2p. If they don’t they just will lose more and more control over a product at one time was tightly controlled by the industry.

By: Christoph

Christoph — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

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