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| Thread ID: 117933 | 2011-05-11 05:45:00 | Would you pay for content? | davidmmac (4619) | PC World Chat |
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| 1201448 | 2011-05-11 23:20:00 | Speaking of restricting content to devices/programs. Does anyone find steam annoying in this way? ie steam games must start through steam (with a few exceptions). Yes, I absolutely hate it. Bought Half-Life 2, and will never buy anything that requires Steam again. |
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| 1201449 | 2011-05-12 01:21:00 | Only if it's offered in a format of equal or greater quality than the store-bought physical copies (of course, having the option to download lesser quality AS WELL but NOT as the ONLY option is OK too) It also must have: 1) No DRM 2) No requirement of installing any stupid programs for download management, playback or otherwise anything else. 3) Does not use any proprietary codecs etc that means I would be unable to play it on or with open source software. I give credit to www.juno.co.uk who satisfy all these things as I recently purchased a track from them I had wanted for a long time (the song used in a promo ad for 24 on TV3 some years ago) as well as MP3 they also do high quality WAVE which can be re-encoded to FLAC when you download if you wish. Just had a look at juno never heard of them before, unfortunately they don't do real muic |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1201450 | 2011-05-12 11:48:00 | Thoughts on what would be an acceptable price to pay for content? Would you pay more for HD TV shows, HD Movies or Lossless music? | davidmmac (4619) | ||
| 1201451 | 2011-05-12 11:56:00 | I wouldn't pay any more for HD/lossless content, it should be the bare minimum standard where available with lower quality content practically given away as a free bonus | lagbort (5041) | ||
| 1201452 | 2011-05-12 12:02:00 | I certainly wouldn't want to pay any more than I would if I bought it on a disk | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1201453 | 2011-05-12 13:24:00 | I would buy music online if it was DRM free was not crap MP3 quality was not iTunes linked There are a lot of sites doing just that. www.addictech.com for example. It is mostly new and/or independent artists who are willing to put a bit of trust in their listeners to support what they do. The mainstream labels, instead, assume that everyone is trying to steal from them, and restrict, lock down and deny access to the stuff people want, the way that they want it. The fact that it is already freely available is all the more reason to make it easy for people to pay for. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1201454 | 2011-05-12 13:54:00 | I usually just buy a CD - high quality, no DRM (usually) and you have a physical copy you can't lose if your hard drive dies (because we know a lot of people don't backup) and it's in a format that is well known and can be read by practically anything with a CD drive. Even with the artists who do offer downloads, even good downloads like FLAC etc I still prefer to buy a CD |
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