Originally posted by CiberTHuG
Here are the difficulties:

  • It needs to be on-demand and not pushed or streaming. I want to select the music I want to hear when I want to hear it. This is after all supposed to be a step beyond the radio, not radio in cyberspace


I'm sure there are other problems.
Yep - that is one of Napsters great strengths although on-demand streaming seems to be the way AOL is planning to go.

Originally posted by CiberTHuG
Here are the difficulties:

  • Artist need to get paid. The better an artist is (the more well liked) the more he should get paid. 'Course, they should tour, too.
I guess that is for their agents to negotiate. On a personal basis I'm not sure that they should be forced to tour to make money - it cuts off their revenue the second they get sick/old/pregnant etc but that is probably secondary if they can get paid for their music.

Originally posted by CiberTHuG
Here are the difficulties:

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[*]Once I have a song on file, I am well with in my rights to copy that file. It is unreasonable to introduce something to keep me from making copies, especially since this is a tempermental medium. I'm not going to buy all my music again just because my hard drive crashes. This presents a problem because once I copy the file, I can just mail it to you. That is copyright infringement (in my opinion). But that is not the fault of anyone but me.
If its not copyable I guess it has to cost less and the protection must not hassle the user. All media are tempramental though - audio tapes break, CDs scratch (both have happened to me in the last week ) - most people don't back them up though they just have to buy a new one if the medium is destroyed.