What would it take to make you pay for music/movies?

This is not a thread advocating piracy by any means, so hopefully it'll be allowed. Hopefully it's allowed to at least acknowledge however that piracy is no longer a crime that counterfitters used to get up to in the 90s, but something more or less all of us do on some level to varying degrees. Some listen to songs on YouTube which are copyrighted and shouldn't be on there. Some of us have thousands of songs on our computers and haven't paid a cent for them.

Very often record companies get blamed for being stuck in the past, and i think that's partly true. Universal in particular is a dinosaur of a company which seems to want to sue the industry back to the way it used to be.

But anyway, before i get into an essay on the state of 21st century entertainment, i ask you; what would a company have to do to get you to acquire their products legally? :o Lower the price? Offer it in a different format?

Nothing. I pay for my music.

Music should be pay what you want, movies should be 5 dollars.

And get rid of that god damned DRM.

I have better things to spend my money on like food and the electric bill.

I have better things to spend my money on like food and the electric bill. Whoever answers this thread will have to be very vague to avoid getting moddedtestfactor888

Usually if its an artist I really like and I am a fan of then I will buy his CD but if its someone I don't know very well or only like a couple of their songs then I will download. Pretty much if your an artist that I really like I will buy your CD.

For it to not be available to me easily(and fast) to get for free with little to no hassle.

I already buy music [from iTunes]. Movies would have to come with a lot of extra features in order for me to buy them.

I buy music but everything should go down in price a little.

I buy all my music and rent or buy all my movies/TV series.

I do purchase the stuff I want to personally "own." Many movies are one time rents, and songs a one time youtube listen.

Well I'm certainly not paying $13 to go see a 3D movie.

Whoever thought that was a good idea is ****ing loco.

Music should be pay what you want, movies should be 5 dollars.

And get rid of that god damned DRM.

jaydough

Doesn't itunes and similar services already do that?

EDIT: Misread.. Speed reading and I thought you said for what you want.

Music should be pay what you want

jaydough

Considering what people currently pay for it, that's not much.

The inability to get it without having to.

Nothing, really. It would be nice if they lowered their prices, but I still buy CD's whenever I have the money because of the unrivaled sound quality (compared to most downloads out there).

I wouldn't say I'm an audiophile (yet :P), but recently I've become very picky about the quality of my sources, which has pretty much turned me away from downloads because the file quality tends to be really poor (by the way, **** iTunes Store; abyssmal quality + DRM = FAIL). So since the only reliable way of getting lossless rips of all the albums I want is getting physical copies, I have no problem paying for albums; the price for old releases is completely worth it, imo.

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Music should be pay what you want

metroidfood

Considering what people currently pay for it, that's not much.

Nothing. I pay for my music.

Pirate700

Same here...I buy CDs for my car stereo.

I pay for my music and movies anyway.

I don't even know anymore.D=

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Music should be pay what you want

jaydough

Considering what people currently pay for it, that's not much.

I'd hardly call what a few artists succeed at a good business model for the industry at large.

Music should be pay what you want, movies should be 5 dollars.

And get rid of that god damned DRM.

jaydough

What do you mean by this?

The realization that people put hard work into entertaining us. So I should pay for their services. Oh wait, I already realized this.

I buy Blu-ray movies fairly often, but to pay for music, it would have to be not so readily available for free...

I already pay for my music and movies. With things like iTunes/Amazon where a song costs only 99 cents and an entire album is $10 there is no excuse to pirate music anymore.

I already buy my music and movies. :|

I pay for movies.......if i like them

It's rare I ever buy a movie. Not because they're expensive, but there are just so few movies where I say "Wow, I would really like to own that so I can watch it multiple times."

Acceptable prices.

Stop trying to dick me over with DRM and other sneaky things

Offer in modern formats for music (MP3).

I already buy a lot of music and movies legally.

Just sometimes they could be cheaper. Import prices are high for music, and I'm not going to pay for a band's music when I haven't heard anything by or about them at all, and I follow a lot of websites and magazines so if I haven't heard of them it's pretty rare. Even then sometimes I won't buy just due to the import price...

I buy all of my music/films nowadays, but even when I didn't get music legally I spent a hell of a lot more money on items purchased from said band's official website.

I obtain it legally already. A company shouldn't have to do a damn thing to get people to stop stealing their property. It's the people that should realize that, if they don't like the price or the format it's in, too bad, if you want it, it should be at the price and format the owner see's fit, not at what the people see fit.

Nothing. I pay for my music.

Pirate700

I obtain it legally already. A company shouldn't have to do a damn thing to get people to stop stealing their property. It's the people that should realize that, if they don't like the price or the format it's in, too bad, if you want it, it should be at the price and format the owner see's fit, not at what the people see fit.

racer8dan

So basically, you're perfectly ok with companies giving their customers the finger... Did it ever occur to you that is why many customers give companies the finger and pirate in the first place? It's a vicious circle. Companies should ALWAYS care about what their customers have to say; listening to consumers keeps them happy, which leads them to buy more of your products. Screwing your customers over will just cause them to not give a damn.

the fbi would have to be knockin on my door

I already paid my $10 to take a chance on a movie that might (and probably will) suck, and if they movie was good enough to buy, $20 for the DvD and $30 for the Blu-ray is too high and I generally wait til they're $5 or something off of Amazon. As for music, I'm very picky with music, so you won't see me buying an album just cuz I like one song, currently Youtube is doing a good job providing me with full songs uploaded from others.