Comments on: Study says Apple Mac users are half honest, PC users are thieves

By: Alissa

Alissa — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The “grey market” providers are great - a good quality track for a nominal price is so much more pleasing than having to search endlessly for a free track that isn’t marred in some way.

Still, i wouldn’t pay 99 cents a song for that convenience - for that price i’d rather just buy the CD.

By: jonBrackett

jonBrackett — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

i know why this is. macs are more expensive then pcs. i’ll bet if you took a survey of average income (i am talking about home use, not business use), mac users would beat pc users by far. so, since they have more money, buying music is not as big of a deal.

By: Smellis

Smellis — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Mac users are mindless whores so incompetent and blindly loyal they will gladly pay for media plagued with DRM, all the while smiling and exclaiming, “VIVA CONTROL”.

By: bYonder

bYonder — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Not to be biting troll bait, but this mac user is a mensan, not a mindless whore - still buying from allofmp3.com in its new incarnation mp3sparks.com. iTunes store product is out of the question for 3 reasons: DRM, price, and lossy compression.
We Mac users pioneered p2p file sharing in 1996 with HotLine before the protocol was opened to Windows (at which time the ambience altered interestingly).

By: Wayde

Wayde — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

yeah, don’t bother biting troll bait. It’s not worth. I’m not a Mac user and I sometimes poke fun, but it doesn’t need to degenerate into insults.

By: derek

derek — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

calling 99 cents for a song expensive is a joke. even to lame, manufactured, mainstream trend artists it’s insulting. put it into perspective: you pay more to get a candy bar out of a vending machine.

if the music isn’t worth enough to you to trade off $10 to buy a legit copy of the album, having 100% lossless quality shouldn’t be a concern of yours anyways. you trade off for what’s important to you in return.

i don’t waste my time buying songs from itunes either, i’ll buy a cd if the album’s any good. but honestly, if someone pays you a lousy wage for you job, you’re not going to try very hard at it, so why should these guys bother when you don’t want to pay them at all?

By: MacCrap

MacCrap — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Amazon sells DRM-free songs for 89 or 99 cents w/out having to download and install a download manager. Why bother buying DRM-enabled songs from iTunes? If Amazon doesn’t have it, get it from the grey market.

P.S.-Macs are overpriced and suck (so do their lame-ass commercials)

By: Wayde

Wayde — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Good deal MacCrap. I’d be willing to spend a little extra on DRM high bit or lossless music.

The reason I don’t like .99 cents a song is because the gold standard has been 128bit MP3 and that’s only half of what is required for decent sound on a decent soundsystem.

By: MusicLover

MusicLover — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

“Grey-market discount Russian online retailers”? Hahaha. Who are you kidding? You’re stealing your music, you’re just paying a few cents to foster the ethical delusion that you’re somehow better than the people who use Limewire or another P2P program to steal music. You’re not, you’re still a thief.

Unless you buy your music from someplace that gives money to the artist, you’re stealing it. Period.

I buy CDs or digital tracks from legitimate vendors, because I love music and I want to support the artists who create that music. You should do the same.

By: Wayde

Wayde — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

If you really believe that a distributor’s royalty payments equates to payment to the artists, you’re naive.

I forget where I actually read this, perhaps someone can correct if I’m wrong. But I understand that AllofMP3.com paid royalties in Europe. The trouble the RIAA had with it is the service allowed North Americans to buy at significantly lower than established market prices for North America.

I’ll buy from their website if available and buy directly from them. My problem isn’t with paying a fair price - it’s paying for 128 bit MP3s with DRM. I refuse to pay iTunes a premium for slightly higher bit MP3s with no DRM.