Internet shops that were easy to find, didn't use DRMs, and didn't give the customers the impression they were ripped of.
Yes, exactly. I refuse to buy music from iTunes because of how disproportionate the UK prices are to the EU and US ones - and the fact that you can only buy things that have been 'released' to UK and not from the site of any other country. (At least, I think that's still true - I think the European Commission made a case against it for being anti-competition a while ago.)
And, like you say, it's really hard to work out where most of the money goes from CD sales, since it doesn't particularly appear to go straight to the artists. I completely understand that there are going to be marketing costs, but I don't see why they have to be so phenomenally huge as they must be now.
As far as cutting off internet access goes, I'd be hesitant to say that the internet is a right rather than a privilege, but I don't recall any instances where people committing fraud through the post have been banned from sending letters...
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Yes, exactly. I refuse to buy music from iTunes because of how disproportionate the UK prices are to the EU and US ones - and the fact that you can only buy things that have been 'released' to UK and not from the site of any other country. (At least, I think that's still true - I think the European Commission made a case against it for being anti-competition a while ago.)
And, like you say, it's really hard to work out where most of the money goes from CD sales, since it doesn't particularly appear to go straight to the artists. I completely understand that there are going to be marketing costs, but I don't see why they have to be so phenomenally huge as they must be now.
As far as cutting off internet access goes, I'd be hesitant to say that the internet is a right rather than a privilege, but I don't recall any instances where people committing fraud through the post have been banned from sending letters...