Bloated? Featuritis?

Christopher Duncan wrote:

It doesn't change the equation. If people are unwilling to pay for music because they think they should be able to download it for free, then it's the same whether the music comes from a record industry label or the musician's own label.

It does change the equation. The record company might pay $1.00 per $15.00 album while PayPal will pay around $14.00. Even though many people still won't buy, the profit is much higher from those who do. It can also encourage sales because the price can be lowered and people wwill know their money is going straight to the musician. Binary Boy newsreader

Why don't more musicians sell their music from their own web sites? Post 30 second samples or send out a free song from the album on bittorent or relase a whole album free with some words mixed in like "this is shareware. purchase at www blahblah" Shareware registration services could probably even sell and distribute the songs without any technical changes to their systems. Of course there's also PayPal which only costs a little more than 2%. Newsreader

Better than my idea to add 4 wheel drive to the mouse.

Congratulations! You're in debt! :)

Gone. What did it say about hacking XP? Was it a security flaw of some kind?