Comments on: Trent Reznor: Why won't people pay $5?

In an exclusive interview, the Nine Inch Nails front man said his realization that fans think "music should be looked at as free" was a bitter pill to gulp down.

[soggy0]

411 is NOT included with phone service

It may have once been the case that 411 was bundled with phone
service, but now it's a pay-per-use service on every major carrier
(including wireless.)

[plastichallway]

THIS person doesn't get it, either...LOL

major artists don't make very much from merchandise, either. they have a 3rd party manage that and just get a percentage of sales....a small percentage, like %15-%20, not "most" or "all" of the money. when you buy a $30 tee shirt at a concert, you're getting raped by the suits again, my friend.

[foovius]

Simple - free version too good

Seems pretty simple to me -- Reznor released the free version at
too high a bit rate. 192k MP3 is a fine bitrate for music. Most
people don't need higher than that. If he'd released it at 128k like
Radiohead (or perhaps even lower-res), there'd be a reason to
want to pay for a higher res version.

[mikestatic1]

Stop EXPECTING free music, cheap SOB's

I'm no fan of the RIAA, but I do enjoy it when they take some loser to court for file sharing. It isn't about what you think is right or wrong - it is about legality. If you can't afford to buy music by your favorite artists, that is one thing... but these faux-intellectuals who base their theft on some 'moral' ground against the labels... they just want something for nothing.

Which makes them not much more than nothing themselves... sad, really.