Subscriptions
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Originally Posted by onlydarksets
Sigh...that's exactly what I (and David) said. Rewording it does not undermine my point (or his) and make it your own.
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I understood the benefits of subscriptions from the beginning, and was referring to what you said in the quoted post (I quoted it for a reason), not some other post. What you said in that post wasn't an accurate description of the differences in models -- in both purchase and subscription models, if you don't pay, you can't play. The important point that you didn't mention (in that post) was that subscriptions allow you to play more, but give you fewer rights.
Nor was I trying to make anything "my own", either. The concept of subscriptions (or their benefits and drawbacks) doesn't belong to anybody, and I highly doubt you were the first person to think that subscriptions allow you to listen to more music than you can purchase. In fact, if subscription services didn't allow that, they'd really be stupid.
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Originally Posted by onlydarksets
This is the same conceptual difficulty that many have with subscription music - with subscription, you don't "lose" the music because it was never yours to begin with.
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Now you're just pettifogging. "Lose" is short for "lose access to", which you most certainly do. The user doesn't care why he can't play the music; the fact that he can't is the important issue.
Also, technically, the music is never "yours" -- unless the copyright owner gives you that right. The medium may be yours, but your uses (including access) may be restricted. This is true whether you purchase or subscribe to content.
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Originally Posted by onlydarksets
Yes, you understand it correctly, and I agree that it is the best of both worlds.
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Good, so I think we've agreed that subscription models can be useful, haven't we? Crash was the person who called subscriptions "extremely niche", and even he said "Zune Pass is certainly the best of the subscription models available." So why are we arguing about something we basically agree on? 
Steve
Last edited by Pony99CA; 12-17-2008 at 02:01 AM..
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