People should just subscribe to the Zune Pass and enjoy unlimited music downloads on three PCs for the price of an album per month. I know that the Zune marketplace has only half of the music library iTune's does but, the more people support Zune, the better the library becomes. This is an amazing way to stop music piracy, and I'm one of the people who converted to this paid service considering how reasonably cheap it is.
And, I say PCs because Mac users are just 6% of the world, probably 80-90% of iTunes users are PCs.
I'm with you. I haven't downloaded any music illegally in months since I signed up for the Zune Pass. It's easier to search than Usenet or P2P, I can download anything in the Zune catalog, I get to keep 10 DRM-free songs per month, and its legit. Let's see if Microsoft can pry people away from their iPod Touches with the next version of the Zune hardware and actually make some headway with the Zune Pass. About 50GB of my 80GB Zune is filled with music from my Zune Pass.It boggles the mind to think how much that would cost in a world where the only alternative, legal or not, would be 99 cents per song from iTunes.
Same here man, same here. Over half of my music library was downloaded by the Zune Pass, I use my 10-songs per month to keep my best of the best music, which happens to be less than a song per monthly new album, and sometimes I end up with only 6 songs.
This is a great way to enjoy music without the need to buy it and find out how lame it is after wasting a full dollar on it! and nothing beats double clicking any song and playing it like if it was on your computer or surfing the market place through your own Zune to listen or download music on spot. Sometimes I don't even download music, just double click and listen! Lol. My experience with the Zune Pass made me appreciate new genres of music I never thought I would love. I always bought music with full caution and didn't bother "discovering" music, now it is a different world for me.
Me, my brother and a friend all share the same account and each of us pay $5 per month!! Lol, me and my brother have Zunes, and my friend uses only his PC to listen to music, and we are all enjoying the service.
Guys, try it out, they even have a 14-days test for free, if you don't like it just cancel, trust me people it is really worth every penny.
Lol, I feel like listening to the old stuff Steve Wonder has, firing up my Zune, and baam, instant music. *You are the sunshine of my life*. :D
That's why people should adopt Zune. Plus, if you have a Windows Mobile Phone, or just use the music for your computer or a media center extender (Xbox), then you can use your Zune Pass on those. Also, Microsoft is probably not closing the Zune Marketplace any time soon. If anything is to go it will be the Zune devices, the service is gonna stay around. And on the chance that it does close, you don't really loose anything because you never really owned any of the music. The advantage to the Zune Pass is that you get those 10 free songs a month that can even be DRM-free MP3's so if you cancel your subscription or they shut down you get to keep those free songs.
@Jon, Well when you download the 10 free songs with your zune pass then you get to use them for anything really. CD burning and converting and what not. Although for me I keep all the songs I download off zune pass by using tunebite. Oh shoot the RIAA is at my door!
1) $0 is less than 1 album per month 2) I wouldn't have to buy a Zune 3) I wouldn't have to own a Windows machine
At this point, music leaks are done on purpose to create hype. Producers leak albums out on bittorrent along with musicians themselves who give pre-release copies to blogs and other outlets.
The RIAA will have you believe that it's piracy so that their jobs stay somewhat relevant. Really, as has been said a million times, artists make money off of merch and touring.
@ John Completely right. I'm studying Music Business/Management right now and while there is absolutely no business model anymore for the music industry to thrive on, artists are making almost 90% of their revenue from both merchandise and public performance. As well, their publishing deals give them a shit-ton of cash flow, as does ASCAP and BMI.
People need to stop worrying about illegal downloading affecting the artists. First of all, the times when the artists WERE NOT IN IT FOR THE MONEY are coming back, people are writing music for the sake of having an audience to listen to it. If you notice, the only people giving a shit about their music being stolen, are the artists that are in it for the money, not the music.
Argue what you will with how the artist should be paid for his work, I totally agree, and being an artist myself, I feel that getting money for my work is essential to being able to pay bills, however, I would take an audience of 1,000 people listening to my music over selling any amount of CD's or digital singles.
Realize that record companies are sinking (already sunk), and Artists are now doing things themselves.
You mention that you, your brother, and a friend share a Zune Pass. I can see this possibly being considered fair use if you share a residence, if not, this is exactly the problem the music industry is combating although it may not seem like piracy to you, it is. If artists can't trust each individual consuming their product pays the agreed upon price, whether it's subscription or per track, then the decline of the music industry will continue.
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People should just subscribe to the Zune Pass and enjoy unlimited music downloads on three PCs for the price of an album per month. I know that the Zune marketplace has only half of the music library iTune's does but, the more people support Zune, the better the library becomes. This is an amazing way to stop music piracy, and I'm one of the people who converted to this paid service considering how reasonably cheap it is.
And, I say PCs because Mac users are just 6% of the world, probably 80-90% of iTunes users are PCs.
I'm with you. I haven't downloaded any music illegally in months since I signed up for the Zune Pass. It's easier to search than Usenet or P2P, I can download anything in the Zune catalog, I get to keep 10 DRM-free songs per month, and its legit. Let's see if Microsoft can pry people away from their iPod Touches with the next version of the Zune hardware and actually make some headway with the Zune Pass. About 50GB of my 80GB Zune is filled with music from my Zune Pass.It boggles the mind to think how much that would cost in a world where the only alternative, legal or not, would be 99 cents per song from iTunes.
The problem with Zune Pass is that you can only play the songs on a Zune.
And what happens if/when Microsoft closes the Zune store? You're left with zero functional music. Whoopee.
Same here man, same here. Over half of my music library was downloaded by the Zune Pass, I use my 10-songs per month to keep my best of the best music, which happens to be less than a song per monthly new album, and sometimes I end up with only 6 songs.
This is a great way to enjoy music without the need to buy it and find out how lame it is after wasting a full dollar on it! and nothing beats double clicking any song and playing it like if it was on your computer or surfing the market place through your own Zune to listen or download music on spot. Sometimes I don't even download music, just double click and listen! Lol. My experience with the Zune Pass made me appreciate new genres of music I never thought I would love. I always bought music with full caution and didn't bother "discovering" music, now it is a different world for me.
Me, my brother and a friend all share the same account and each of us pay $5 per month!! Lol, me and my brother have Zunes, and my friend uses only his PC to listen to music, and we are all enjoying the service.
Guys, try it out, they even have a 14-days test for free, if you don't like it just cancel, trust me people it is really worth every penny.
Lol, I feel like listening to the old stuff Steve Wonder has, firing up my Zune, and baam, instant music. *You are the sunshine of my life*. :D
@ Jon
That's why people should adopt Zune. Plus, if you have a Windows Mobile Phone, or just use the music for your computer or a media center extender (Xbox), then you can use your Zune Pass on those. Also, Microsoft is probably not closing the Zune Marketplace any time soon. If anything is to go it will be the Zune devices, the service is gonna stay around. And on the chance that it does close, you don't really loose anything because you never really owned any of the music. The advantage to the Zune Pass is that you get those 10 free songs a month that can even be DRM-free MP3's so if you cancel your subscription or they shut down you get to keep those free songs.
@Jon,
Well when you download the 10 free songs with your zune pass then you get to use them for anything really. CD burning and converting and what not. Although for me I keep all the songs I download off zune pass by using tunebite. Oh shoot the RIAA is at my door!
1) $0 is less than 1 album per month
2) I wouldn't have to buy a Zune
3) I wouldn't have to own a Windows machine
At this point, music leaks are done on purpose to create hype. Producers leak albums out on bittorrent along with musicians themselves who give pre-release copies to blogs and other outlets.
The RIAA will have you believe that it's piracy so that their jobs stay somewhat relevant. Really, as has been said a million times, artists make money off of merch and touring.
I'd buy a Zune if it supported Mac.
@ John
Completely right. I'm studying Music Business/Management right now and while there is absolutely no business model anymore for the music industry to thrive on, artists are making almost 90% of their revenue from both merchandise and public performance. As well, their publishing deals give them a shit-ton of cash flow, as does ASCAP and BMI.
People need to stop worrying about illegal downloading affecting the artists. First of all, the times when the artists WERE NOT IN IT FOR THE MONEY are coming back, people are writing music for the sake of having an audience to listen to it. If you notice, the only people giving a shit about their music being stolen, are the artists that are in it for the money, not the music.
Argue what you will with how the artist should be paid for his work, I totally agree, and being an artist myself, I feel that getting money for my work is essential to being able to pay bills, however, I would take an audience of 1,000 people listening to my music over selling any amount of CD's or digital singles.
Realize that record companies are sinking (already sunk), and Artists are now doing things themselves.
@Saad
You mention that you, your brother, and a friend share a Zune Pass. I can see this possibly being considered
fair use if you share a residence, if not, this is exactly the problem the music industry is combating
although it may not seem like piracy to you, it is. If artists can't trust each individual consuming their product pays
the agreed upon price, whether it's subscription or per track, then the decline of the music industry will continue.