Official Ares Free Download

p2pnet has always maintained music lovers would happily pay for downloads if the price was right.

But a dollar and up, the de facto corporate standard charged by the likes of iTunes, is definitely not right.

Bluebeat, offering music downloads at 25 cents each, was unceremoniously taken down when EMI secured a temporary restraining order effective until November 20. On that date, court arguments as to why it should be allowed to start selling downloads again, or should it be be kept offline permanently, will be heard.

While we wait to see how that works out, TunesPro.com has gone online, brashly touting digital music files for six cents less than Bluebeat — ie, at 19 cents per, a price most  online music lovers will probably agree is pretty much what it should have been from the beginning.

Not only but also, there’s a further 10% discount for album buys)

And speaking of iTunes, it’s been “repeatedly criticised for raising the prices of music downloads”, TunesPro.com says in a statement interestingly entitled iTunes & Napster Blasted By Music Download Watchdogs, and going on:

“Single track downloads recently rose from 99c to $1.29 on iTunes which prompted competing music sites Amazon, Napster, & CDUniverse to also raise prices.”

Of course, with prices as low as 19 cents, or $2.39 for a compete album, plus a 10% discount, certain questions are raised, such as how is the company able to offer “individual songs for as little as 19c, with additional 10% discounts given to consumers who purchase full albums”?

And »»»

• Is that the price across the board?
• Can buyers share their purchases?
• Does it have arrangements with the major labels? If so, which ones?
• And last but by no means least, Do the artists get any part of this and if so, how much and how are they paid?

So we asked.

PS – Did we mention TunesPro.com is registered in the Palestinian Territories?

Stay tuned.

(Cheers, Monkey)

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