{"id":1531,"date":"2005-03-09T12:26:13","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T17:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/03\/five_cents_per_song\/"},"modified":"2005-03-09T12:26:13","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T17:26:13","slug":"five_cents_per_song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/five_cents_per_song\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Cents Per Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/05\/03\/09\/1548251.shtml?tid=141\">Slashdot<\/a>, a university visiting scholar proposes that the music industry could make more money if it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globetechnology.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/TPStory\/LAC\/20050309\/SONG09\/\/?query=mcgill\">lowered download fees to five cents a song<\/a> and significantly grows demand.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure the music industry has had plenty of consultants weigh in on what the pricing sweet spot is to maximize profits.  And unless free file sharing goes off the charts, I don&#8217;t suspect we&#8217;ll be significant pricing changes.  But as a music consumer, five cents per song sounds like a great idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/03\/five_cents_per_song\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Five Cents Per Song\"><p>Via Slashdot, a university visiting scholar proposes that the music industry could make more money if it lowered download fees to five cents a song and significantly grows demand. I&#8217;m sure the music industry has had plenty of consultants weigh in on what the pricing sweet spot is to maximize profits. And unless free file [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}