As hard as it is to grasp the attraction of streaming music that gives you complete access to a catalog and allows offline listening, I suppose. This isn’t Spotify: there’s a cost to using Apple Music. So owning a song you streamed and liked means you’re paying twice, which most people simply won’t do. Their choice, but it hurts those of us who prefer to put an honest price on music and keep the goodies.
This is not a simple problem to solve. Artists need to get paid, but when making it easy for people to listen without paying is the only way some people will even hear about music, you’ve just taken away a good proportion of their living, and raced a bit closer to the bottom to boot. DRM provides differentiation that is necessary in order to make this possible. At least piracy is honest: you pay nothing while you try it, and put the money down only when you really want it. Having said this, I filtered three tracks I like into my library from Apple Music, and when I’m sure I really, really like them—and I think I do—then I’ll buy them. How about that? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
