Just paid for downloaded music for the first time...

[UNCjigga]

Bought 'Rock Your Body' by Justin Timberlake on a whim...99 cents at BuyMusic.com.

Question is, how do they make money on the song--doesn't the cost of processing the credit card transaction negate any profit for either buymusic.com or the record company/artist?

 

[MaxDSP]

you got ripped off

 

[MaxDSP]

:beer:

 

[loup garou]

hahahhahaahahahhaha

 

[UNCjigga]

I was bored...

edit: reminds me of the time i randomly paypalled someone on AT $3...he got all confused and sent it back!!

 

[Zim Hosein]

Of all the songs to download you download 'Rock Your Body' by Justin Timberlake

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
I was bored...

Have a :beer: then, don't download garbage uncJIGGA!

 

[T3C]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Of all the songs to download you download 'Rock Your Body' by Justin Timberlake

 

[brunswickite]

what format it comes in?

is it mp3?

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Of all the songs to download you download 'Rock Your Body' by Justin Timberlake

go to buymusic.com and its like right on the front page!

 

[ElFenix]

you might be gay

 

[MaxDSP]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
I was bored...

so you decide to actually *buy* a JT track? Were you under the influence at the time?

 

[bandana163]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
I was bored...

edit: reminds me of the time i randomly paypalled someone on AT $3...he got all confused and sent it back!!

Sorry friend, but GOD will have to punish you for this...
Don't do this again, drink :wine: instead

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: brunswickite
what format it comes in?

is it mp3?

This has been answered before, but no...not MP3. 128kbps WMA with a DRM wrapper so you're limited in what you can do with the file. I don't know if licensing is different for each song, but for this file I can keep it on 3 different computers, burn it 10 times, or transfer it unlimited times between unlimited portable music players.

It sounds good...just as good as my 256kbps CD rips using LAME.

 

[Lager]

You also bought "Cry Me a River".

 

[her209]

So if your hdd crashes, can you just redownload the song for free or do you have to pay again?

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: her209
So if your hdd crashes, can you just redownload the song for free or do you have to pay again?

After I reinstall, as long as my Windows is reactivated on the same code (shouldn't be hard once I call activation support hotline?) then it shouldn't count against my 3 computers limitation. I just log into my account at buymusic.com, hit 'download all' and all the music I bought will be downloaded. edit: sh!t...forgot that WMP9 and WinXP are activated separately...hmm...good question!!! I guess I just bitch at buymusic.com and they should relicense it for me...cuz the customer's always right??!!

BTW, transfer rate was INSANELY fast...like 15 seconds for 4mb! No waiting here...none of the typical kazaa/winmx issues, and its perfectly legal. What I really like is the unlimited portable player use (as long as its not CD-based! )...will come in handy once the perfect MP3/WMA compatible player is on the market (don't like any of the current ones...love iPod but alas no WMA )

 

[Kelemvor]

Credit Card transactions only cost a few cents. Especially when you process thousands of them every day like buy.com. I'm sure they have a good deal worked out.

 

[piku]

What is the point of DRM if you could burn the file? Download it, burn it, then rip it from the CD into a non-DRM garbage format. Sure you would be lossy encoding a lossy file, but you'll have that.

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

$0.99 a song?

You get a better deal buying the whole damn CD.

 

[tRaptor]

Originally posted by: piku
What is the point of DRM if you could burn the file? Download it, burn it, then rip it from the CD into a non-DRM garbage format. Sure you would be lossy encoding a lossy file, but you'll have that.

thats what i was thinking. Its not like i would go pirating it or anything, but thoes limitations suck... Then again you did agree to them.......

 

[stevens]

anyone who pays for Justin Timberlake music is a tool. Sorry.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Of all the songs to download you download 'Rock Your Body' by Justin Timberlake

Agreed. Where's the :tard; icon when you need it?

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: piku
What is the point of DRM if you could burn the file? Download it, burn it, then rip it from the CD into a non-DRM garbage format. Sure you would be lossy encoding a lossy file, but you'll have that.

Or load it into a portable player with digital-out, hook that to the soundcard, and I've got a perfect rip

 

[fyleow]

Maybe I'm gay but that song isn't all that bad