Ray Dillinger wrote:
There's a lot to be said for "simple", especially when it would require invasive (and expensive) monitoring to implement a per- song download fee.
that is actually one of the main plus points of this, and privacy is one of the reasons it's been implemented here (germany) - an invasive monitoring scheme would violate our privacy laws. yes, we have laws that actually give citizen a right to privacy.
BTW; I don't generally download music: I tried it and the sound quality of MP3 is crap. I don't use windows; the engineering quality of the product is crap. But I'd still rather pay taxes on hard drives than have snooping software installed in Windows. See, given the choice, I'd rather have taxes rather than snooping software accepted as "normal". -- At least for now.
yepp. if you accept that you have to pay for music copies, then a flat fee is the less invasive and more privacy-conscious option.