Comments on: Amazon Doesn’t Want to Sell Music to Pirates

By: The Great Geek Manual » Link Round-Up: May 8, 2009

The Great Geek Manual » Link Round-Up: May 8, 2009 — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:55:01 +0000

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Wed, 06 May 2009 04:25:28 +0000

[...] Amazon Doesn’t Want to Sell Music to Pirates A music only torrent indexer, Coda.fm stands out from other sites with its clean design and innovative features. One of these features is a link to buy the various albums on Amazon, after downloading them on BitTorrent and enjoying the sample. Surprisingly enough, Amazon objects to getting business this way and has taken action. [...]

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By: Mitt inlägg i fildelningsdebatten : A fair judgement

Mitt inlägg i fildelningsdebatten : A fair judgement — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:41:22 +0000

[...] ett större kulturutbud. Samtidigt är det sajter som The Pirate Bay som leder oss dit, men när Amazon inte vill sälja musik till pirater så funderar jag kring var problemet egentligen ligger. Ena parten klagar på att vi inte betalar, [...]

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:48:18 +0000

Anyone remember when Amazon ads were on the-realworld.de? I do and Amazon refused to put ads on TRW’s replacement.

By: TypingLOL_CauseCancer

TypingLOL_CauseCancer — Mon, 04 May 2009 09:32:29 +0000

Who can by stuff nowadays with price hikes on cigs and various foods? Seriously. Cost of music is figurative, doesn’t exist, its cost only exist person to person.

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:44:06 +0000

OK, not only are the Amazon links still up on the Coda website, but they still work when you click on them. Im using IE and I tried 4 different albulms and all of the Amazon links brought me to the Amazon website showing said album. Can others confirm? It is beyond my conmrehension why a company would shut down free advertising to sell their products. Wow!

By: Kaliayev

Kaliayev — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:33:52 +0000

That’s fine by me. Pirates/fans should be buying the albums directly from their local record store or the artists anyway.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:27:03 +0000

Facts:
1)Some lossless sound better than some CDs
2)Pirates are willing to pay for certain music
3)Artist leechers must learn that a n artwork it’s not a product.

You got them? now to MPAA RIAA etc. Please read the blogs around the world and realize that something has to change. Seriously you are losing a great opportunity chasing ghosts.
People love music and the artists listen to those people instead of hanging them in the public plaza for everyone to see.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 02 May 2009 12:15:29 +0000

I still love Amazon, they blow away their competition, IMO. Their prices are awesome especially their deals. Their MP3 deal of the day rocks – I get a few complete mp3 albums for usually about $2 a week, can’t beat that. I track the deal at the following site (its the first one on the page):

http://www.frugalgadgets.com

or you can go directly to just the deal here:

http://www.frugalgadgets.com/amazon-mp3-daily-deal.php

By: basement dweller

basement dweller — Sat, 02 May 2009 11:55:12 +0000

I would never pay money for lousy mp3! Must be lossless. I did something remarkable today: bought a CD! Collection for 7 euros. Was very spontaneous after I started feeling bad for all that I had downloaded. :)

By: Amazon Doesn’t Want to Sell Music to Pirates | News Inventory

Amazon Doesn’t Want to Sell Music to Pirates | News Inventory — Sat, 02 May 2009 06:36:46 +0000

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By: meneame.net

meneame.net — Sat, 02 May 2009 03:05:24 +0000

Amazon no quiere compartir sus ventas con la descarga de torrents…

Coda.fm es un indexador de torrents musicales, que ofrece tres opciones al visitante: descargar el torrent, escuchar el álbum, o comprarlo en Amazon. Sin embargo, Amazon ha exigido a Coda.fm que retire este enlace que por lo visto "contamina…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:36:12 +0000

AMAZON SUCKS EVERYONE BOY-COTT THEM NOW! AND SEE HOW MUCH MONEY THEY MAKE THEN!!!!!

By: Why Would Amazon Want To Block Links From A File Sharing Search Engine? | The Latest Headlines

Fri, 01 May 2009 23:43:10 +0000

[...] like the idea of converting unauthorized downloaders into authorized purchasers, as it demanded that Coda.fm remove links to the purchase pages on Amazon.com and also killed off Coda.fm’s affiliate account. It’s difficult to see any rationale [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:26:40 +0000

Seriously, isn’t this twisting the facts? What percentage of Peers / Seeders will ACTUALLY click the link and purchase the CD? Of these, how many will be purchasing THROUGH Coda.FM? I am an Amazon Affiliate and own a prominant Album Art Exchange site and know what a small percentage of my viewers actually will purchase from Amazon. I would be quite curious to learn what their conversion rate is and how many people they are clicking the links. No offense intended but I would bet good money that their percentage is waaay lower than my paltry figures for my site.

Of course, the reality is that it’s not that they won’t sell to Pirates but that they cannot associate with someone who pirates music or is even remotely associated with this activity or seen by the Labels as condoning the activity in order to make a profit. Of course, nothing is stopping these Peers from going to Amazon, previewing the songs there and legitimately purchasing the MP3’s. Who are you trying to kid here?

Your article twists the facts to make is sound as if people who are violating copyright laws are getting the short end of the stick. “Oh, Boo-hoo – Poor Pirates”. This is just a rediculous proposition!

By: DW

DW — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:05:01 +0000

More proof that you get nowhere pandering to greedy corporate terrorists.

By: st00r

st00r — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:49:21 +0000

oh stupid Amazon

By: chevron

chevron — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:46:22 +0000

@#42
“From 196kbit/sec and above i think 99.9 % of all poeple can’t tell the difference in a blind test.”

Wholly depends on what one is listening to. Generic pop and rock? Perhaps you’d be right.

Some harpsichord music? You’d have to be deaf not to notice a difference between even 320K MP3 and original.

Ultimately, if online stores are going to charge a similar per-track fee to buying a track pro-rata on a physical CD, they can damn well provide something of equal quality.

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Fri, 01 May 2009 17:38:21 +0000