| From: | g'o'tz ohnesorge |
| Date: | 30 Oct 2000 at 18:12:43 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIGEN: Ami-Napster |
Colin Wenzel wrote:
> Wow, I just read the last paragraph & I am starting to sound
> like my dad, geez, is that scary or what ?
No, some music does cause headache if you didn't grow up with it. Or maybe
all music does ..
> You know, thinking about it, if they did buy it, they could at least
> charge a "joining fee" or a subscribership & make a packet,
> I for one wouldn't mind parting with a few bucks a year to have
> access to this service. Maybe even a download fee of a
> dollar or 2 per song...
That's about what most surveys in the Napster community brought up. Them
that use it most are also them that spend indecent amounts of money on
music because they love the stuff so much.
And then there's the chance to offer new artists at zero dostribution
costs, instead of upwards of 1000$ for even the first 100 promotional
pressing CDs to go to public music venues. And since you're on the net
already, ratings and charts, and discussion boards and live chat with
people who liked the same stuff. And so on ..
Someone actually started a place that gives you kind of Napster on a 10$
per month subscription. But they have to build up a new brand name (which I
already managed to forget) and public attention for it, while Napster
already had this.