Comments on: Pay for what’s worth paying for http://perpetualstudent.net/blog/2010/02/05/pay-for-whats-worth-paying-for/ Just another student of the web Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Michael Thaler http://perpetualstudent.net/blog/2010/02/05/pay-for-whats-worth-paying-for/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Michael Thaler Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:33:17 +0000 http://perpetualstudent.net/blog/?p=113#comment-49 Portable Internet isn't ubiquitous yet, but it will be--I recently joined the smartphone-owning crowd and it's changing my life. Having Pandora and last.fm during my commute makes much life much, much better. I'm sure that within five or ten years, that level of computing power in a phone will be the baseline.<br><br>Incidentally, thanks for reading! Feel free to stop by whenever. :) Portable Internet isn't ubiquitous yet, but it will be–I recently joined the smartphone-owning crowd and it's changing my life. Having Pandora and last.fm during my commute makes much life much, much better. I'm sure that within five or ten years, that level of computing power in a phone will be the baseline.

Incidentally, thanks for reading! Feel free to stop by whenever. :)

]]> By: Michael Thaler http://perpetualstudent.net/blog/2010/02/05/pay-for-whats-worth-paying-for/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Michael Thaler Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:33:17 +0000 http://perpetualstudent.net/blog/?p=113#comment-27 Portable Internet isn't ubiquitous yet, but it will be--I recently joined the smartphone-owning crowd and it's changing my life. Having Pandora and last.fm during my commute makes much life much, much better. I'm sure that within five or ten years, that level of computing power in a phone will be the baseline.<br><br>Incidentally, thanks for reading! Feel free to stop by whenever. :) Portable Internet isn't ubiquitous yet, but it will be–I recently joined the smartphone-owning crowd and it's changing my life. Having Pandora and last.fm during my commute makes much life much, much better. I'm sure that within five or ten years, that level of computing power in a phone will be the baseline.

Incidentally, thanks for reading! Feel free to stop by whenever. :)

]]> By: Hugh http://perpetualstudent.net/blog/2010/02/05/pay-for-whats-worth-paying-for/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Hugh Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:44:59 +0000 http://perpetualstudent.net/blog/?p=113#comment-25 Thanks for pointing out your post over on WrongBot. I agree with almost everything you said above; streaming music services still have a few drawbacks (my portable music devices aren't connected to the internet yet), but they are a reasonable and effective push back against piracy. Good business and good sense.<br><br>I'd also like to point out that this can transparently address part of Sam's gripe about music pricing. In theory, a streaming service should pay artists based on how many subscribers listen to their songs. Then, when you listen to an artist preferentially, more of your dollars (well, larger fractions of a cent, at least) go to that artist.<br><br>One of the most common value-adds of streaming services is discovery: recommending the movies or music a subscriber is most likely interested in. Netflix does a good job of this. Pandora and Last.fm do some things really well (I use both), but I was still more successful in finding obscure good music by using the community on OiNK.cd; that remains the thing I miss most now that I have stopped pirating anything. For some reason, Last.fm and Pandora still feel really heavily weighted towards popular music and things I've likely already heard. Thanks for pointing out your post over on WrongBot. I agree with almost everything you said above; streaming music services still have a few drawbacks (my portable music devices aren't connected to the internet yet), but they are a reasonable and effective push back against piracy. Good business and good sense.

I'd also like to point out that this can transparently address part of Sam's gripe about music pricing. In theory, a streaming service should pay artists based on how many subscribers listen to their songs. Then, when you listen to an artist preferentially, more of your dollars (well, larger fractions of a cent, at least) go to that artist.

One of the most common value-adds of streaming services is discovery: recommending the movies or music a subscriber is most likely interested in. Netflix does a good job of this. Pandora and Last.fm do some things really well (I use both), but I was still more successful in finding obscure good music by using the community on OiNK.cd; that remains the thing I miss most now that I have stopped pirating anything. For some reason, Last.fm and Pandora still feel really heavily weighted towards popular music and things I've likely already heard.

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