Would You Pay $20 a Month for Unlimited DRM-Free Music?

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:40 PM EDT

Article Source: Yahoo! Tech - Daily Features

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....Radiohead's "pay what you want" experiment has the makings of a huge success (some are saying $10 million in sales so far). In Europe, things are getting even stranger. Specifically, Denmark's equivalent of the RIAA, the International Federation of Phonogram and Videogram Producers, has reportedly floated an idea (at least abstractly) to allow users to have unrestricted downloads of all the music they want over peer-to-peer networks, in exchange for a flat fee of about 100 Danish kroner, or about US$19.

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KyleN

That seems like half of a bad idea. What about the other end for the artists? The government cuts them a check of the taxes, and how do you decide who gets what? It is trying to shove the music industry into the public good shoe and I don't think it fits very well.

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#1 - Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:17 PM EDT

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Todd Dietrich

It's an interesting idea, but there are quite a few bugs to work out before this is ready for prime time.

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#2 - Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:16 PM EDT

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