13 Responses to “Study says Apple Mac users are half honest, PC users are thieves”

1. December 20th, 2007 at 10:16 Alissa says:
   
   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.
2. December 21st, 2007 at 02:01 jonBrackett says:
   
   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.
3. December 21st, 2007 at 15:29 Smellis says:
   
   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".
4. December 22nd, 2007 at 17:30 bYonder says:
   
   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).
5. December 22nd, 2007 at 21:21 Wayde says:
   
   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.
   
   
6. December 23rd, 2007 at 23:48 derek says:
   
   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?
7. December 26th, 2007 at 04:06 MacCrap says:
   
   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) ;)
8. December 26th, 2007 at 08:20 Wayde says:
   
   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.
9. December 27th, 2007 at 12:13 MusicLover says:
   
   "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.
10. December 28th, 2007 at 08:45 Wayde says:
    
    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.

    
    
11. December 28th, 2007 at 14:30 bYonder says:
    
    allofmp3.com aka mp3sparks.com has always distributed 15% of sales through ROMS as royalty. Those represented by RIAA have always refused to accept this, but it is the main reason the site has repeatedly prevailed in court. The notion that ROMS is not legitimate is FUD from your friendly labels, who are not yet ready to accept royalties at the level the present and future market will actually bear.
12. December 31st, 2007 at 14:50 Gizmo n00b says:
    
    This site belongs in 1597 - I didnt know there were so many bitter, useless, twisted little pc-hobby cheap-computer idiots in existence.
    
    DRM? Who gives a toss?
    Sounds lousy on my stereo? Yeah, because you have incredible hearing and perfect pitch, dont you?
    
    You people should be living in the old Soviet Union, driving Ladas and watching bad soccer on satellite tv, and riding donkeys.
    
13. December 31st, 2007 at 16:48 Wayde says:
    
    Maybe it's just because this is New Year's Eve... but I think I just read the comment of the year!

    
    
    Sarcasm and donkeys... you just have to love the combo. This one is untouchable!

    
    
    Thanks Gizmo n00b for ...

    
    
    Comment of the Year 2007!