quoted 6 lines I am playing big-evil-demon's advocate, and I agree with you, that a> I am playing big-evil-demon's advocate, and I agree with you, that a
> system of backup from the seller's site would be very nice indeed. It's
> one of the reasons I've never jumped up and down in excitement over online
> MP3 sales. I'm still not putting my money where my mouth is in support of
> bleep.com, and I likely won't for a while, for most of the same reasons
> you mention -- what if?
I'm with you. I reckon a 'download 10 times' or something policy would be
good. That would give scope for it to be retrieved if necessary. Also
holding a record of your purchase history so that you can therefore download
for a 'download fee', say 5p a track. You'd only be able to do that in bulk.
The problem here is the size of the payment for download, as the bandwidth
costs are negligable after a while.... I've got to check with my ISP, but
they told me they were charging me £1.60/GB for additional bandwidth over my
base usage, meaning each track costs about £0.016 to be downloaded. If
everyone was constantly re-downloading it would add up, but charging for
'just download' is impossible because of the credit card companies rates and
refusal to carry true micropayments.
quoted 4 lines I could see it being a very valuable extra feature, but making it> I could see it being a very valuable extra feature, but making it
> optional. perhaps a 'subscription' based setup for bleep.com that would
> store all of your past purchases, or an extra few cents/dollars per
> song/album for a 3?5?10? year backup of the songs you purchased.
Makes a lot of sense: pay an extra £2 per 100 downloads of already purchased
files, a stack of download credits for your purchased catalogue. Then they
don't bankrupt themselves by offering open ended downloads.
Thanks for the useful discussion peeps!
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