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March 28, 2004 |
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Waffles of Thought - Bleep. Weblog: Waffles of Thought Source: Bleep Link: http://blog.chadbrandos.com/archives/2004/03/28/bleep/ Music CDs are going to obsolete within the next five years. Today I have made my first digital music purchase at Bleep, the digital download store of Warp Records. I bought the the album ”Sheath”* by LFO. That’s eleven songs for just $9.99. Payment and downloading was quick and painless. It gave me the option of downloading each track individually or all at once in a contained .zip archive. Very nice. Bleep is set apart from other music download services such as iTunes and Napster because they do not use Digital Rights Management (DRM) on any of their tracks. Each song is encoded in a very high quality, variable bitrate MP3 file. More information about the lack of DRM and file quality is available in their FAQ.* They are being fair to their customers and to their artists. I am not limited to the number of CDs which I may burn. The music artists get 50% of profits after bandwidth and site maintanence fees. That’s quite a chunck when you consider that with iTunes, the artist may only get 10% of total price. I will no longer have to pay outrageous prices at the small, overpriced stores with little selection. Sure, Bleep won’t have it all, but with Aphex Twin, Plaid, Beans, Squarepusher, Boards of Canada, Red Snapper, Luke Vibert, and Nightmares on Wax, I will be busy for a while. *The Bleep site uses embedded iframes, which makes linking to an exact album or artist difficult. You’ll have to navigate in through their homepage if you want the full pages. [PubSub: DRM-Digital Rights Management]8:48:54 PM 
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