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to emerging IP stories with a focus on law, technology and culture.
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
49 Cent Song Download Sale at Real
Here's a bit more evidence that the P2P phenomenon has been good for consumers. Previously, we've seen cuts in CD prices and the advent of authorized downloadable music from Apple's iTunes and others. Now, RealNetworks is running a sale on their entire catalog for 49 cent songs and $4.99 albums. Granted, they are doing this at a loss to help promote their new Harmony technology, but retailers running sales and loss leaders are certainly nothing new.
It's good to see signs that the internet still has the ability to level the playing field a bit between consumers/small business and the handful of large companies that control the vast majority of the media including record labels, radio stations, book publishing, etc.
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Here's a bit more evidence that the P2P phenomenon has been good for consumers. Previously, we've seen cuts in CD prices and the advent of authorized downloadable music from Apple's iTunes and others. Now, RealNetworks is running a sale on their entire catalog for 49 cent songs and $4.99 albums. Granted, they are doing this at a loss to help promote their new Harmony technology, but retailers running sales and loss leaders are certainly nothing new.
It's good to see signs that the internet still has the ability to level the playing field a bit between consumers/small business and the handful of large companies that control the vast majority of the media including record labels, radio stations, book publishing, etc.
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I read an interesting article about Real Network here that kind of sheds the light on why they're doing this 49 cent song thing. A little reverse engineering, some online petitions and a whole lot of bad business make it well worth reading. Check it out!
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/feature-creep-the-real-world-019837.phpWes
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http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/feature-creep-the-real-world-019837.phpWes
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