|
myOtaku.com
• Join Today!
My Pages
• Home
• Portfolio
• Guestbook
Contact Me
E-mail
• Click Here
Website
• Click Here
Vitals
Birthday
• 1983-09-27
Gender
•
Female
Location
• Hillsboro, OR
Member Since
• 2007-09-10
Occupation
• Publisher/Writer
Real Name
• Cassie
Personal
Achievements
• Got my undergraduate degree
Anime Fan Since
• 1999?
Favorite Anime
• Vampire Princess Miyu
Goals
• Update my sites consistantly
Hobbies
• Writing, reading, playing with my neice, taking the dog to the park
|
|
|
Friday, October 12, 2007
Commentary on Voting with Your Dollars column
This week was a personal pet peeve of mine. I've had many fights with friends about their downloading habits. It's one of those "if you don't vote, you don't have a say" sort of things. Buying the dvd or manga is the only way to vote for what you want to see more of.
There is definitely a generational gap between those who download and those who buy. I'm 24 and I rarely download. It seems like I'm at the age breaking point. A lot of people younger than me see no harm in download ("What do my dollars matter to a big corporation?") and a lot of people older than me wouldn't imagine getting something for nothing.
I do feel that DVD prices are too expensive to really just impulse buy something new. The last new DVD I got that I didn't already know I'd love was the first season of Supernatural, because it was on sale for $25. I'd seen an episode or two on TV and always thought it looked decent, so I decided to take the plunge and just buy it. So far, its enjoyable, but really only worth about $25. Unfortunately, many impulse buys have ended up being worth far far less than what I paid. ... Miyuki-Chan in Wonderland -_- And that was only $15.
Oh, and along this topics line, Radiohead did something revolutionary with their new album - They are charging you whatever you feel like paying. If you want to pay $0, then all right. Here are a few articles about it. Telegraph.co.uk Radiohead fans pay up to £100 for download
Scotsman.com - What price innovation?
I'll be really interested to see how this experiment ends. It does look like they are releasing a CD album with extra tracks and special vinyl records in a few months.
~Cassie
Comments
(1)
« Home |
|
