That's why the Plastic Disc will never die, true enough.
But you have to HAVE THE PLASTIC DISC. When I rent a DVD from Netflix, I have wait for it to be available in my queue, wait for it to come in the mail, watch it, send it back, etc. If I want to watch it again, I have to repeat this again; for low-availability DVDs, this can be an arduous process.
Who cares if I want to watch something again? If I want to watch it that badly, I'll find a cheap DVD somewhere. As long as Netflix has a LOT of what I want to watch (not necessarily most, even), right the damn now, I'm not going to begrudge them circulating some titles out, on occasion.
I'm a musician in an Erie, PA industrial-metal band, DisgraceD, and this is an ongoing argument between myself and the singer/manager. He's resistant to the idea of a service such as AmieStreet because it involves giving away ANYTHING for free. (AmieStreet scales the price of downloads to the number of previous downloads. Your music starts off as free, and increases to a max of 99c as more people listen.)
His feeling is that he won't give away something that he's worked so hard on; he doesn't realize that especially for a band in our position (relatively talented, largely unknown), there is no downside to free riders. What a band in our position needs is listeners, paid or not. We need people at our shows, we need people to buy t-shirts. (seriously, as opposed to most mentions of selling t-shirts)
Every person who downloads a (lossy) free mp3 of ours is many times more likely to pay a lousy $5 cover to get into a bar we're playing at, and might shell out $10 for a double-cd.
Once they have those CDs, I hope they burn them for their friends, who might then come see us the next time we're in town.
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Re: Streaming only? No thanks.
That's why the Plastic Disc will never die, true enough.
But you have to HAVE THE PLASTIC DISC. When I rent a DVD from Netflix, I have wait for it to be available in my queue, wait for it to come in the mail, watch it, send it back, etc. If I want to watch it again, I have to repeat this again; for low-availability DVDs, this can be an arduous process.
Who cares if I want to watch something again? If I want to watch it that badly, I'll find a cheap DVD somewhere. As long as Netflix has a LOT of what I want to watch (not necessarily most, even), right the damn now, I'm not going to begrudge them circulating some titles out, on occasion.
Free Riding, from a Musician perspective
I'm a musician in an Erie, PA industrial-metal band, DisgraceD, and this is an ongoing argument between myself and the singer/manager. He's resistant to the idea of a service such as AmieStreet because it involves giving away ANYTHING for free. (AmieStreet scales the price of downloads to the number of previous downloads. Your music starts off as free, and increases to a max of 99c as more people listen.)
His feeling is that he won't give away something that he's worked so hard on; he doesn't realize that especially for a band in our position (relatively talented, largely unknown), there is no downside to free riders. What a band in our position needs is listeners, paid or not. We need people at our shows, we need people to buy t-shirts. (seriously, as opposed to most mentions of selling t-shirts)
Every person who downloads a (lossy) free mp3 of ours is many times more likely to pay a lousy $5 cover to get into a bar we're playing at, and might shell out $10 for a double-cd.
Once they have those CDs, I hope they burn them for their friends, who might then come see us the next time we're in town.