and another thing

[deathboy]

OH, PEOPLE JUST STEAL MUSIC, THEY'RE SUCH BASTARDS, WOES!

[as Irish ISPs fold to the will of people with big lawyers... cunts...]

Well, I just went to buy M.I.A.'s "Kala", as it reminds me of my bird, and ooh, lookie...

£4.98 for the CD. £6.99 for the mp3s.

MAYBE IT SHOULD COST LESS TO BUY THE MP3s OF A FUCKING ALBUM THAN TO BUY THE FUCKING PHYSICAL PRODUCT.

A single example, I know, but this happens all the fucking time. So! Yet again, I'll steal the mp3s so I can listen now, and order the CD to support the artist.

Same goes for fucking ebooks, that tend to be 90% of the price of the paper version, despite there being no fucking physical product to sit on your bookshelf.

YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.

fucking morons.

[edit]: In fact, fuck y'all, I'll just listen to it on Spotify.

Comments

[the_axel]

M.I.A.'s "Kala"

Sio & I found a burn of that album in the last car we rented.
Hadn't heard of her before so that was a definite win.

[adamw]

The other thing that is pissing me off at the moment is region restrictions on mp3s, after trying to buy the new Apop album online and finding I couldn't, as it was only available on iTune Germany. My full rant about it here.

As you put it: DOING IT WRONG.

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

Re e-books (seeing as I'm involved in the small press end of that) there's a deal of sense on both sides of this argument, of which this is a reasonable quick summery:
http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/index.php?id=1693

[deeteeuk.livejournal.com]

I have been saying similar things recently about digital delivery of games. Empire: Total War was £23.97 on Amazon recently. It's now gone back up to £28.99. On Steam? £39.99. £5 more than buying the all singing, all dancing, "Special Forces" edition from Play or Amazon, and having the hard copy with all the nice maps and manuals.

[fengi.livejournal.com]

Amen to that and the comments rant about regionally restricted purchasing. They'd rather have their insane system than your money.

[doctor-bob.livejournal.com]

I see your point but they're trying to save a dying market for physical music.

£6.99 is cheap compared to the £13.99 or whatever you used to have to pay for a CD album. But as less and less people are willing to pay for a disk, they're trying to make the price of physical media all the more appealing.

[therealdrhyde.livejournal.com]

I'd just like to point out that Boing boing's URL for the story is "irish-isp-will-disco.html". Which is totally fucking awesome.