| Traveller Location: In an airport, probably Join Date: Mar 2007
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| imho, in addition to the cost, there is also a huge convenience factor:
convenient:
- hear song
- want song
- download song
- listen to song at leisure
inconvenient:
- hear song
- go to shop
- shop don't have song
- look for legal download
- find it, but it's DRM'd to the point where it is almost unusable
- go back to shop or amazon
- order and pay for full album just to get one song
- wait
- album arrives
- rip album to mp3
- throw away cd
- listen to song at leisure
basically, the recording industry has to make it more convenient to legally download than it is to illegally download. |