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Originally Posted by Dean Roddey  But the person who is stealing it for zero now, is probably still going to steal it for zero most likely. Ten cents is as far from zero as one dollar is. You'll just have the remaining folks who would buy it legally just paying way less for it. |
what remaining folks?
I hear what you're saying, and it works for recording artists that are well known or even a little bit established. I pay $1 per track all the time for artists I know to be serious about music and recording. But for unknowns, $1 is an insurmountable barrier I think, as a practical matter.
The only hope I have is that some fees might be collected based on download volume or traffic or something, in the style of fees collected from broadcast radio. They will necessarily be small. It's better than nothing.
I think, from your point of view, the right thing is to make money from the relatively few people who do not download 'free' music. So of course you have to charge more. From my point of view, I think the thing to do is to find some way of getting at least something, even if very little, from the folks who are downloading 'free' music. That way the volume works in your favor. Dunno, there are good arguments to be made for both approaches. So far, neither approach seems to be working very well.
-synthoid