Came across some really exciting news here at TechCrunch, Amazon is going to have a DRM-Free Music download service!
So for people like me living out here in Hong Kong I can finally download MP3 tunes. Now this is just my opinion but it seems that people like Apple have always been hesitant about adding Hong Kong to the list of places that have an iTunes shop, because when people think of Hong Kong they think of short little money grubbing Asian pirates with no morals.
Though I believe that to be true in part, there is a large portion of people who do uphold a strong moral code and are more than willing to purchase the real deal. Take a look at 360! For as long as I can remember in the majority of Hong Kong computer malls would only be selling pirated copies of Dream Cast and Playstation games. In fact often times the only way you could get your hands on a copy of these games was to purchase the pirated copy as sometimes publishers didn't want to distribute in HK for fear of having there games copied and pirated.
NEW FLASH *Pirates copy there games from IRC and get there ISO's almost faster than retailers world wide!!!*
Now things have changed drastically, you'll see miles upon miles of 360 games available in those computer malls, real ones! Why because people want to play online, and 360 has a rock solid online service! Basically there is a strong reason to support the market.
Side tracking to music, I'm sure that people who buy music online fall into one of the following categories, 1) a music fan that only likes a couple songs in any given albumn, and does in fact want to support their chosen artist. 2) a person who has very strange taste in music and can't find the tunes they want in a regular CD shops or 3) a music fans that *gasp* don't own a cd player. Now in todays iPod crazy world I'd imagine that most people fall into 3.
Almost everyone in HK owns an iPod, if iTunes got there shit together and had a shop in HK, I'm sure there would be plenty of downloads, but as of now most people can only download pirated stuff. Seriously iTunes is a dead easy system and most Hong Kong people despite being known as pirates aren't very tech savvy. If 1 click allows them to get music on iPod for low cost, they'll do it.
I for one support purchasing music legally and hope Amazon is my answer to finding music, and I also hope its the beginning of the end of the vicious cycle of piracy in HK. People who download pirated software and music will always download but that doesn't mean the rest of us should be punished!
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