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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2007-08-19 20:24
Mark:
I have no delusions of ALL customers being honest (I'm in software too). My problem with the current system, though, is that a significantly *inferior* service is provided to the honest customers. There will always be both honest and dishonest customers. The options I've seen are to attempt to make the dishonest customers more honest by offering a high quality product at a low price, or to attempt to make the honest customers dishonest (under the guise of "keeping the honest customers honest") by making it difficult for honest customers to use your services.
It has happened a number of times that I have been prevented from legally using my legally purchased software by an error or obsoletion of some technical copy-protection measure. Heck, a couple of times I *LOST* the software activation key (I know it's in my room somewhere) and as a result had to repurchase software, the other option being to obtain a "special" copy.
The same principle applies to music. If someone discards their portable music player in favor of another brand (or, heck, if they just don't like the software), depending on the brands and music services involved, they'll be extremely lucky to be able to just straight-up use their tracks, somewhat lucky if ALL they have to do is burn their entire collection to CDs and re-rip them, and quite possibly have to RE-PURCHASE their supposedly-"purchased" music.
At this point, the listener is quite likely to look into less legitimate means. And, frankly, I don't blame them.
On principle, I obtain all my music legitimately. And, as a result, any music I buy online is either crippled (see Rhapsody or iTunes) or of mediocre selection (see eMusic). It's my thanks for being an honest customer.
As for micropayments, I imagine there'll be a happy solution people like within a few years. Hopefully that'll help sort things out somewhat.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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