Satangel, on 22 January 2012 - 04:53 PM, said:
Gamer4life, on 22 January 2012 - 04:45 PM, said:
im halfway through ti so far woohoo
20 minutes so far.
I sort of had to lol when Mr.Cow said "Apple revolutionized (or something like that) the way music was distributed", no they did not. It happened before via downloading, now it still happens via downloading (both illegal and legal). Apple only had the first only legal way to purchase music downloads, nothing more.
I think you're downplaying how big that is though. Before Apple, there were these horrible services for downloading music online. You could stream them on your computer and that was it. The record industry was so blind as to how to properly sell music online. Apple came in and built a system that they agreed with, and was fair to consumers, and they are now the #1 music retailer in the world. They negotiated deals like making a flat fee of .99 cents per song, and also letting people buy any song instead of the whole album. They got the ability to let people burn those songs onto CD, even though that creates a analog loophole for ripping the CDs back. These are things the labels would have never had the balls to do without Apple trying to get them to. Even Sony, a company with a record label and digital media divisions, could not set up a system for this, and they didn't even need to negotiate with an outside company!
I know what you're saying though, piracy beat them, but I don't think it's fair to compare legal practices to things piracy has done. Of course you could stream movies from websites before Netflix, but that doesn't make what they've been able to legally do any less amazing..
In other news, here is the math .gif I was talking about:
Thanks for listening guys! Although it was a long one, I thought it was a pretty fun episode with actual good conversations!