buck-a-neer.
¶ by Rob Friesel
From the Wired article on iTunes for Windows: [Apple’s] iTunes Music Store for Windows appears to be off to a grand start, but no matter how successful it may be, the online store will never, ever have the slightest impact on the file-sharing networks…
Maybe not. But rampant file-sharing viruses just might.
But I digress… To date the store has sold 14 million tunes, more than 70 percent of all the music sold online.
You can’t tell me that there isn’t something to this. Hell, last night I bought my first song off the iTunes music store.
“What’s that!? Why would you pay for music?”
Well, let’s see… B/c part of the reason I had to reformat the drive on my PC was b/c it was getting eaten alive by Kazaa-borne virii and spyware. And b/c I want to make sure I’m getting exactly what I want. (Of course, if you’re not paying for it, who cares … but still … that’s time wated.) And I’m sure I’m going to get it. No one is going to queue me or block me or try to chat me. I don’t have to worry about supernode settings. And 99 cents ain’t too bad.
Eric Garland, CEO at BigChampagne says: “100 million songs in a year sounds like a lot of songs … But it’s a tenth of all the songs available at any time on Kazaa. It represents a tiny fingernail, a sliver of a fraction of the downloads from Kazaa.” But wait, there’s more: Garland compared the iTunes store to a business bottling water. Apple might be very successful selling bottled water, but most people still will get their water from the tap, he said.
Let’s just say that until I can get a Brita for file-sharing, I’ll take the bottled water. Fuck the RIAA. But fuck the virtual-VD free-for-all file-sharing orgy too. Unless someone knows where I can get a higher bitrate version of that live Orbital “Halcyon+on+on” w/ the Belinda Carlisle drop…
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