Music industry tries to increase charges for music downloads

While legal music downloads
are possible in the US and they slowly start getting available in other
countries too, they now plan to increase the charges for downloading songs
on the Internet. While single titles usually cost 99 Cents and albums 9,99
Dollars or Euro, they now aim to get between 1.25 and 2.49 Dollars per
title.


Currently the complete album "Fly or Die" from the Hip-Hop-Band
"N.E.R.D." costs $ 13.99 when downloading via Napster and $ 16.99 on
the iTunes Musicstore. Meanwhile the complete album is available at Amazon
for $ 13.49. So you pay up to 20% more when legally downloading this
album.

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According to Wall Street Journal, the industry tries
to determine further ways to let the user pay more for single titles. So
they try to bundle current hit singles with second or third class titles
or demand an increased price if the song is available online before the
release date of the album.


Like "Fly or Die" the prices for
"Musicforthemorningafter" from Pete Yorn and from further artists, ranging
from Kylie Minogue to Blur were raised in a way that the digital versions
are more expensive than the average price in old fashioned music
stores.


I guess that will be the end of legal music downloads and everyone who
currently pays for music will now start using illegal filesharing again.

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In the article we can also read that music industry and download
services blame each other for the high costs. But that should not be carried out
on the consumers' back if they both want to continue earning money by selling
music over the Internet.


Feel free to comment below or in our Music Downloads, P2P & Legal Issues Forum on Club CD
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Source: PCWelt.de

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