Sign in for recommendations. New member? Start here.

Russia agrees to shut down Allofmp3.com | CNET News.com

zenetik rated 23 months agoFeatured Review
If there is any chance of consumers showing the music industry that they are willing to pay for fairly-priced high-quality non-DRM music, AllofMP3.com is it. At $0.99 a song, iTunes is overpriced. It's simple math. The price of the physical CD minus physical manufacturing costs and shipping, d...

Do you like this page from news.com.com? Yes, I like it

Tell us what you like and we will show you more pages like it with our recommendation engine.

1 Reviews

Characters left: 4000


zenetik rated 23 months ago
If there is any chance of consumers showing the music industry that they are willing to pay for fairly-priced high-quality non-DRM music, AllofMP3.com is it. At $0.99 a song, iTunes is overpriced. It's simple math. The price of the physical CD minus physical manufacturing costs and shipping, divided by the number of songs on the CD is a good starting point for price-per-song. But then you have cover art, liner notes, no-DRM and actual CD-quality music -- none of which iTunes provides. And...iTunes is limited to specific music players. AllofMP3.com allows users to pay different amounts for music based on the quality of the music (bitrate) and allows users to choose the format of the music they would like. It's a true consumer market -- and it pisses the recording industry off because they'd rather force low-quality crap on consumers and then charge multiple times for the same product depending on how the consumer uses the music.