[Rumori] Songwriters Say Piracy Eats Into Their Pay

[Brian Flemming]

> Has anybody tried this Itunes thing?


I buy music now and then at the iTunes Music Store.

The files, I believe, are AAC. "m4p" is the file extension.

The protection on them makes them less convenient than MP3s to copy in 
certain ways. You have to burn the files to a CD in iTunes and then 
re-rip them as Mp3s. You can burn unlimited copies (although you have 
to change a particular playlist once every 10 copies burned).

I've never had any problem with the files. And they sound good at 
smaller bitrates than MP3.



On Monday, January 5, 2004, at 02:04 PM, matt davignon wrote:

>> Although songwriters typically earn only pennies for every sale of a 
>> recorded song, if every person who downloaded "Hard Knock Life" had 
>> bought a CD instead, Mr. Strouse would have collected at least 
>> $46,000 in royalty payments, assuming he would have received 4 cents 
>> a download.
>
> This is flawed reasoning, assuming that all (or even a large amount) 
> of downloaders would shell out $20 for a full length cd if they just 
> wanted the song. If they offered the singles at stores for a 
> reasonable price, I'm sure more folks would buy 'em. There was talk a 
> few years ago about a jukebox-like device that would allow people to 
> create custom cdr's from songs in its database for something like $1 a 
> song. (It was supposed to appear at record stores.) What happened to 
> that?
>
> I admit I've been rethinking this free-download thing over the past 3 
> years or so, but articles like this seem like little more than paid 
> advertisements for the recording industry. (And a songwriter with a 
> higher salary than most doctors can hardly be described as having 
> their income "disastrously impacted" by piracy.)
>
> Has anybody tried this Itunes thing? Are their downloads in mp3 
> format? Or some non-useful proprietary format?
>
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