Posts by Greg 15 2 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Nov 2009
I used to download divx's but gave up cause it is easier and gives me better quality DVD's from LoveFilm. I get to choose the movies I want to watch, when I want to watch them and I am not being raped for lots of £'s in the process. Funny thing is too they are successful as a business model and I'm sure they have the old paradigm of Blockbuster sh**ting brickbusters.
If only the music industry got it into their heads that many more of us would pay for a subscription for every month of the year if it were say 1/4 the price of a new CD. It turns into a predicatable revenue stream and would have vastly more people paying up each month than the numbers of those who currently buy CD's. I don't want to f**k about turning it into something usable on my particular listening device. Apple and iTunes are close but the concept of "ownership" of a song needs to change to just having the ability to listen to it. I would love not to have to waste my time searching torrents and filling disks. The sooner they get the concept of "renting" the song as opposed to "buying" the song the better. All I would then need to do is refresh my playlist whenever I choose. Whats the point in keeping the download if I know I can just select again in the future. They would quadruple the amount of money they extract from me each year under such a model if it existed.
The Digital Britain rubbish could even be a front end with access to all catalogues and distributing the royalties each month as per your playlists. It would be a win-win for everyone. Instead we are about to enrich another mob like Crapita or similar to choke off any motivation to innovate.
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