Universal have just opened an online music store called Lost Tunes - all tracks are DRM free and recorded at 320kbps in the MP3 format - they cost 99p per track.
A quick example of their own greed, and the biggest reason why people might download ‘illegally’.
The Moody Blues: Live at the BBC
Lost Tunes price - £16.99 and you presumably have to burn you own CDs, print artwork etc
Play.com - £9.99 (RRP is £13.99) with free postage and you obviously get something physical
It’s not rocket science is it, really?
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The only stupidity is thinking they can go up against the iTunes store. The iTunes store is right there in my iTunes. Downloads are added to my iTunes automatically, ready to be synched over to my iPod within seconds.
Any other service requires me to register with them, download the track, import the track into iTunes, make sure all the artwork is there and the metadata is right, then synch it over. It’s just more hassle. iTunes has a lot of “iTunes plus” songs appearing.