Digitally Imported is no longer free

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Posted by sly on Sep-28-2003 19:46:

$9-$10/month is a lot of money. If the prices were slashed by half, it would be more reasonable.

Posted by xtr3m on Sep-28-2003 19:48:

Good luck to them.

Posted by Occasu on Sep-28-2003 21:21:

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Originally posted by RobertRollie
They dont have to pay the RIAA dick unless theyre playing music owned by one of their members...and correct me if im wrong but i doubt any of the record labels which put out the kinds of music DI is playing
It all filters into the RIAA at some point. Maybe not directly, but if you look into it you see RIAA is right there at the top of the food chain, controlling a lot of the music you hear, including most EDM lables.

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Someone has to pay for it, yes, but it shouldn't be us.

Do/would you pay to listen to "real" radio?

Land based radio is free mainly because you have to sit through 3, 4 sometimes 5 minutes of commercials (ick ). Plus the cost of getting it to you the listner is pretty damn cheap.

I must say it is disappointing, but people must now look at it as a business. I don't really like the way they are making the listeners feel guilty for not being premium and supporting them. Either you are going to run a business, or you are going to remain the way you were, pleasing the listeners with music they like for free. This is now sink or swim time. Listners should not sign up for premium just because of the past and loyalty. This is now, and DI's product should be what is the selling point, not that the owner is struggling to make payments. Quit expanding if that is the case.

I used to listen to DI for hours at a time. For about a year now I only tune into to Oslo Nights, and the odd set I find playing. Nothing else. So I would be pretty dumb to subscribe to a station I listen to 3 - 4 times a month.

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Sep-28-2003 21:27:

I'll give them 18 months.

Posted by moncster on Sep-28-2003 21:28:

quote:
Originally posted by RobertRollie
They dont have to pay the RIAA dick unless theyre playing music owned by one of their members...and correct me if im wrong but i doubt any of the record labels which put out the kinds of music DI is playing

You will be surprised how many EDM record labels are members of the RIAA

EDIT:
http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/search.asp

Tiesto, some PVD, some DuMonde, Hybrid, Delerium, some Sasha, Oakenfold, some Ferry

Posted by digitaldreams on Sep-28-2003 21:31:

I think they should just offer fewer stations. I know expanding is great, but at the cost of the listeners? If you want one of their specialties I think you should pay (classical, old school, etc etc), but for a main trance channel...i dono

Posted by reveal on Sep-28-2003 21:34:

quote:
Originally posted by digitaldreams
I think they should just offer fewer stations. I know expanding is great, but at the cost of the listeners? If you want one of their specialties I think you should pay (classical, old school, etc etc), but for a main trance channel...i dono

i agree, they should stick to the original 5 (or how many there were) channels

Posted by aboytes on Sep-28-2003 22:55:

quote:
Originally posted by Mebot
it seems to me like it was eventually goin to happen.

Remember those free ISP? Juno and Netzero..free internet at first, but now they're chargin money.

I dunno, i dont like it, but it seems that this is the way the world works

I'm agree. Last Saturday my favorite online newspaper, REFORMA, announced that the internet version of the newspaper isn't going to be free from that day.

I'll have to pay about USD 120/year for access to the internet version and printed version now (I think they were losing subscribers)

Posted by TeKnoHe@d2025 on Sep-28-2003 23:12:

Might as well say the hell with Lange & Pulser's radio show then...unless somebody rips it...

Posted by mets4012 on Sep-29-2003 01:20:

everything is this world involes money somehow and it sucks major ASS

Posted by Trancer85 on Sep-29-2003 01:29:

96kbps...I can live with that.

Posted by Taz on Sep-29-2003 02:24:

What's with this paying bizness? Not even PBS would stoop to that.

I'd rather see them throw in commercial breaks. Or log-on commercials, like you used to have with the RealPlayer channels a few years ago. You'd get a commercial then the streaming broadcast.

Some of the commercials were funny. "Instant Cash! Moneymoneymoneymoney!!!"

Posted by moncster on Sep-29-2003 02:25:

OMG I FOUND A FREE VERSION OF DI!!!!!!!

Posted by CrackedLcd on Sep-29-2003 02:51:

sux

Posted by Clyde77 on Sep-29-2003 02:56:

ye it does scuk, but i think they're doing this to keep di up and serving the ppl. hmmm they've contributed alot to the scene.

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