DomBuyer

I see. So you've never downloaded a single song for free off the Internet?

I don't believe you.

The reality is that I buy more music that I ever have. Every time I download an Internet radio broadcast, I find some music I want to buy. Wading through Limewire is tiring, finding track names, putting an album together etc. As someone pointed out, my time is more valuable than that, so usually I just download a few songs, check them out and one click with iTunes and get the whole album for $9.99

Most people, given the choice between paying for music and not paying for music will pay for it IF THE PRICE IS LOW ENOUGH.

Steve Jobs has sold 10 Million songs that the record companies couldn't do themselves because he priced songs low enough and made the system easy.

Most people, given the choice between stealing and paying, will pay if you make it cheap enough, but the record companies have always been built on a dying business model and weighted copyright issues so won't budge.

Fuck em, I say.

At my age, I've probably paid for many albums four and five times over in different formats, starting with cassette on up. Why the fuck should that be? Why should I pay for Miles Davis' Kind of Blue 5x in my life when the product is the same?

Because the record companies forced me to under their old model.

In 1993, I sat down with the four biggest music label presidents and told them that the Internet was going to destroy them and they'd better change the DNA of their business.

I remember to a person they listened patiently as I showed them the future and then snickered at me and walked out of the room. Every major label was represented and only one label even bothered to call me back and try to understand what we were doing.

Today, their asses are up against the wall, and music lovers are telling them how the business should be structured, not the other way around. The music and movie businesses built themselves around a pre-digital model that put gates around their products. The Internet does not like gates.

Lots of you guys here are doing the same thing, but for better or worse, your gravy train will end. Consumers will only keep paying for porn for so long and then unless it's novel or has ancillary revenue attached to it or something unique, the whole system will collapse.

The bottom line is that I'm an older guy, so I have experience paying for this stuff. There's a whole generation of youth who are trained not to pay for anything, and getting them to pay for anything is a challange.

I've said this before on this board: All you guys charging $29.95 per month instead of $29.99 per year better watch out. The future of porn is a site where you have all major porn sites represented in a menu, and consumers click on a grab bag of sites and for $9.99 a month they get EVERYTHING.

The sites that won't join in will be destroyed, and of course, just like the music business, it will be the largest companies that won't join, and they'll lose the most.

It happened to the record business and now the tv and movie business. And that, ladies and gentleman is why you won't find any content on my domains. I've seen the future baby, and it is murder.