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Originally Posted by 100_Percent_Juice
There are 100s of millions of people happy and willing to download and rip music. Thats why so many people have an ipod or some form of mp3 device.
And if commercials are added to sat radio the price should go down. I mean thats why you dont pay for regular radio, because sponsors do. If you raise the price and add commercials that will turn people away, perhaps not a large number of the stern/nascar fans, but people none the less. but I guess I am a little one sided since I listen to stuff that will keep me awake in the morning  |
You're wrong... virtually no-one downloads music and rips MP3 CDs for play in their car. iPods are successful because iTunes makes it easy for the non-technical to buy and download songs. But all that shit is chock full of DRM bullshit. The vast majority of people don't know the difference between a burned CD and a donut.
Speaking of DRM... the next step in DRM is requiring you to listen to x minutes of ads in order to unlock the music you already paid for. It's bad enough that the music companies are saying things like "you don't own the CD you bought, you own the right to listen to the music on that CD in one device". Give me a fucking break...
But they get away with it... RIAA and MPAA get away with suing grandma for copyright violations because they know that even with all the bad press it generates, the general public doesn't care that there are monopolies out there gobbling up their individual rights. Hell, the general public doesn't even have the power to fight back if they did care.
Mark my words... satellite radio will slowly get commercials (in fact many stations already have them, and all of them have ads for other channels), and it won't make a dent in their consumer base (Nick's 1-2% estimate is probably 100-1000 times higher than reality). People bitched and moaned when cable got commercials, but I don't see cable going out of business over it anytime soon, hell people don't even remember the days of commercial-less cable. Sat Radio will do the same, and make more money on the deal, and pass none of the savings on to their customers, because if they did, they'd be failing their shareholders.