I'm pretty sure you and others have heard about this, but Apple has set up iTunes, which is essentially a pay-to-play type of thing. Customers would pay 99 cents out of a selection of songs and be able to DL the songs. The bad thing about this so far is that the selection is quite limited, which may draw away some people. The solution, tho, would be using the "backbone" of mp3 trading. In other words, the success of mp3s has been because there's just so many songs to choose from, all from a localized program and with others sharing that same file you're looking for, so that if one person goes offline, the next person with that same file is your new source. RIAA and its "cronies" want to get rid of that, but by capitolizing on that idea (seems they're good at capitolizing..lol), they can have one soure to find songs, with more songs than people know what to do with. Don't like pop? Is jpop more your thing? Or perhaps you're just looking for that perfect trance song? Well... with 1 place with nearly every song up to DL for, say, 99 cents, users won't need to resort to other programs. If anything, the RIAA could use these other apps as ways of revenue, in which if someone doesn't like WinMX's interface, they could try Kazaa or whatever else is out there.
Well... this all may or may not work, since free DLs will exist for quite a while, but leave some comments as to what u think of that idea
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