Comments on: http://karenism.com/blog/2006/07/27/54/ Deliciously geeky Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:38:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: barawulf http://karenism.com/blog/2006/07/27/54/comment-page-1/#comment-405 barawulf Sun, 30 Jul 2006 05:36:08 +0000 http://karenism.com/blog/2006/07/27/54/#comment-405 Agh. I'd forgotton the name.. <a href="http://www.hymn-project.org/">hymn is a really cool way of de-DRMing Apple's FairPlay algorithm</a> I've used it successfully in the past -- basically, you run hymn on the file somewhere where you're authorized (the downloading computer) and then can pass it anywhere, forever, like a standard M4A. Win! So who wants to do that and post to soda? Agh. I’d forgotton the name..

hymn is a really cool way of de-DRMing Apple’s FairPlay algorithm

I’ve used it successfully in the past — basically, you run hymn on the file somewhere where you’re authorized (the downloading computer) and then can pass it anywhere, forever, like a standard M4A.

Win!

So who wants to do that and post to soda?

]]> By: fugitivepeas http://karenism.com/blog/2006/07/27/54/comment-page-1/#comment-403 fugitivepeas Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:34:57 +0000 http://karenism.com/blog/2006/07/27/54/#comment-403 well, I'm not too sure about that. It doesn't actually cost itunes anything to give away songs (well, maybe a tiny tiny bit for infrastructure and whatnot). However, I don't think they will gain significant revenue from the promotion. They are hopin that people will hear a song, like a band, and then buy more songs off itunes. The thing that I've always hated about buying itunes music is that you can only authorize 5 computers to play purchased songs. Really, this just encourages one to steal a song so that it can be played anywhere. The other problem is that it doesn't make sense that a song costs $1. If you were to buy an album, you will be paying around $1 per song but you get a physical cd. How is it possible that the cost of the album (burning, printing, shrinkwrapping, shipping, stocking, etc) is equivalent to that of a digital one? In addition, the price of an album hasn't change significantly over the years even though the price of recording equipment has gone down. Music <i>feels</i> overpriced because it is. The chosen bands are 'new-er' and 'indie-er' but my guess is that you will still be able to download stuff from at least half of the bands off limewire or something similiar. On the PR side, they stand to gain, since it is pretty 'cool' that they are giving away music. well, I’m not too sure about that. It doesn’t actually cost itunes anything to give away songs (well, maybe a tiny tiny bit for infrastructure and whatnot). However, I don’t think they will gain significant revenue from the promotion. They are hopin that people will hear a song, like a band, and then buy more songs off itunes.

The thing that I’ve always hated about buying itunes music is that you can only authorize 5 computers to play purchased songs. Really, this just encourages one to steal a song so that it can be played anywhere. The other problem is that it doesn’t make sense that a song costs $1. If you were to buy an album, you will be paying around $1 per song but you get a physical cd. How is it possible that the cost of the album (burning, printing, shrinkwrapping, shipping, stocking, etc) is equivalent to that of a digital one? In addition, the price of an album hasn’t change significantly over the years even though the price of recording equipment has gone down. Music feels overpriced because it is.

The chosen bands are ‘new-er’ and ‘indie-er’ but my guess is that you will still be able to download stuff from at least half of the bands off limewire or something similiar.

On the PR side, they stand to gain, since it is pretty ‘cool’ that they are giving away music.

]]> By: lastquestion http://karenism.com/blog/2006/07/27/54/comment-page-1/#comment-402 lastquestion Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:07:24 +0000 http://karenism.com/blog/2006/07/27/54/#comment-402 woah, this is really interesting from a business perspective.. makes a lot of sense, though. woah, this is really interesting from a business perspective.. makes a lot of sense, though.

]]> By: barawulf http://karenism.com/blog/2006/07/27/54/comment-page-1/#comment-404 barawulf Mon, 01 Jan 2001 06:00:00 +0000 http://karenism.com/blog/2006/07/27/54/#comment-404