News - Charity music site fairsharemusic touts feel-good downloads

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New web-based music store attempts to tackle piracy by making users feel good about their purchases.

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I still think if they reduced the cost of media by a substantial amount they would get a load more sales, enough to counteract the loss of profit per track.

If there are as many file shares as they say, im sure people would rather pay an insignificant amount of cash rather than getting caught.

I for one would be more likely to buy a DVD for a fiver rather than download it, burn it/convert it etc.

It is true that lower prises would help.

I know when they let you pay what you want for the game world of goo a lot of money came in, a lot to be believed was from pirates who wouldn't have paid the original price but where happy to pay something for it.

If it's the same price as Amazon/Play/7digital's store, I'll quite happily buy stuff from there.

Edit: As for whether it's going to convince freeloaders to start stumping up money - i doubt it would have much of an effect.

Edit2: I've noticed that on albums with less than 10 tracks, it's actually more expensive to download the album than each track individually. However, I've tried quite a few less well known bands as well as ones on the major labels, and It's got pretty much all bases covered!