Originally posted by: Cashmoney995
Your still not understanding the concept.
I don't mean rent like you do with napster.
I mean rent as in the way you do a movie from blockbuster.
And if you had a rent service such as netflix, where you could just get a music cd in the mail, play it, and then send it back when you were "done" would you not pay for that rather than going through the hassle of buying all the music and downloading it. There is a lot of old music out there that you just can't feasibly download at decent quality. And sometimes you want entire albums which can get costly.
entire albums cost less to legally download than they do to buy... and music being old has no effect on the quality of the downloaded material. which isn't to defend downloading, since i'd still prefer a real CD any day. but for what you are suggesting, downloading is the obvious solution, and that's why there are already multiple big name music services doing exactly that and zero renting physical media.
even netflix is moving into the download arena, though they are facing huge licensing hurdles and they will be using a set-top box to protect the material and make it easy for everyone to view it on their TV. but i think everyone in the buisness sees movie downloading as the inevitable progression from netflix's current model.
and you're one of a tiny minority if you actually listen to music in that kind of "ok, i heard it once, i don't want to hear it again" fashion. unlike movies, where people are content to see it once or twice (with a few exceptions), music is something people will listen to over and over. i've left CD's in my car stereo for weeks at a time without changing them. even accounting for the "flavor of the week" nature of Top 40 Radio, I just don't see how anyone would be content to only have 3 or 4 albums to listen to at any given time. my favorite album was released 11 years ago, but i still play it once a month and often it stays in my car stereo for weeks at time.
and why would anyone pay to have 3 or so disc at a time when they could have access to record companies ENTIRE catalogs with the download services? and do you have any idea how much it would cost to develop a new media for this? and to promote the new players that everyone would have to buy? and for consumers to actually buy these players? you wanna talk about costly, imagine buying a new car stereo, new home stereo, new portable, new boombox, and even a new optical drive for your computer.
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