http://tvh.disqus.com/The Virtual Handshake: Sell, Raise Capital, Look for Deals with Social MediaenSat, 14 Mar 2009 11:15:06 -0000http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2005/10/27/media-piracy#comment-7213818<p>it is one way that people and companies resolve disputes arising out of an infinite variety of factual circumstances. Am I right?</p>malfeasance BoySat, 14 Mar 2009 11:15:06 -0000http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2005/10/27/media-piracy#comment-8723896<p>When talking about P2P vs commercial "legal" services, it's important to understand that the legal services are not competing with free. There is a significant time and effort cost in using P2P software. Music can be hard to find, badly tagged, badly encoded, badly filenamed with often slow download speeds that have a habit of timing out. And resolving this represents a significant cost in time, skill and effort. This suggest that somewhere there's a price sweet spot where accurate, quality, fast downloads with no DRM can be sold for money to people who would otherwise use P2P. And I think the success of <a href="http://AllOfMp3.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="AllOfMp3.com">AllOfMp3.com</a> demonstrates and proves this.</p><p>I would love to see a legal outlet that uses the AllOfMp3 model. Pitch the price at $1 for 3 months after release, $0.50 for the next 9 months and $0.10 to $0.25 ever after per 192kbps track. Provide higher encoding rates up to lossless for extra money. Then go on a digitising mission to make every piece of recorded audio ever recorded available though the system. You want to bet this wouldn't make a huge amount of money for the operator and the licensors? And the people to do this are Amazon.</p>Julian BondThu, 27 Oct 2005 13:43:04 -0000