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Getting Down vs. Getting MusicRealNetworks has begun selling $.49 music downloads as part of its Freedom of Choice campaign and in conjunction with the release of its Harmony software, which allows music purchased from RealPlayer's Music Store to play on Apple's iPod and other audio devices. The $.49 price will be offered for a limited time, but who knows--if Real sets off a price war because of this, we may see some serious digital music downloading--legal downloading, that is. And you thought Apple's 100 million downloads was something...
Free Record Shop Holding, a company in the Netherlands, also opened a music downloading store this week. The service will offer downloads from the five major labels and from independent labels, including music not licensed for sale at the iTunes Music Store. Unlike most existing music downloading stores, physical CDs will also be available for purchase. Prices currently range from $1.09 for a single song to $26.80 for a double album. My take on this is simple and certainly doesn't need to be said, since you already know it (though I'll say it anyway): the more competition there is between these stores, the better is it for us consumers. There may eventually even be a price point where it just doesn't make economic sense to use P2P apps to acquire your digital music. Forget about morality or ethics--I'm not about to start preaching to you--the time consumed (and time is money) searching for and obtaining that latest album via BitTorrent or eDonkey may prove better spent doing something else, like boning your significant other while you're listening to that sexy new single you just downloaded for a mere fifty cents. I've already found this to be the case with my downtempo Internet radio station. I'm often searching for the latest downtempo releases the day they hit the store shelves, and most often the quickest way to get that music to your listening ears is for me to buy the song at the iTunes Store rather than dig through SuprNova and elsewhere for the file (where it's not always immediately available). Though there isn't one digital download store where I can find all the music I'm searching for, there doesn't seem to be any single repository of those torrents, either, and I find my time better spent purchasing and her kissing than always searching, never f*cking.
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