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Strategies & Market Trends : Piffer OT - And Other Assorted Nuts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (53633)	9/23/2000 11:56:39 PM
From: SmoothSail	Respond to of 63513

If the site can pay those fees and still allow the exchanges for free (as radio does) ... so be it. My guess is we will arrive at a system in which the sites will have to charge a small toll but it will still be possible to fill up a CD for a couple or three bucks. Agreed. All of this is still evolving - just like what happened when radio came on the scene and they had to figure out how to pay the artist. It also makes some sense to those who want to go to the trouble of downloading and putting their own CDs together. There should be some sort of method where they could pay to do that. What makes sense to me is sampling - get a taste of what the tune is and if you want it, then pay to down load it. I remember when recordable tape decks and the VCR became popular. We taped everything - music and movies - but only for awhile. It became too much work. Lots of unlabeled cassettes and tapes laying around. Then we went back to the store to buy the stuff if for no other reason then to have the covers and labels - and to save time. The middlemen to be cut out here are the people in the retail and wholesale distribution chain. They, like full service (LOL!) stockbrokers, will soon become less necessary to the average person UNLESS they can come up with a way to truly add value to the process. These are the people who are going to be hurt the most. What I'd like to see is some way to find the type of stuff I like without having to hunt through aisles and aisles of CDs at a store. Most of the kid stuff - in stores and on the internet - is not the kind of music I'm interested in anyway and that's what you have to wade through right now. And I'm willing to pay - as I think most people are.