I think that there's some real strength behind the idea of charging for a better bitrate. If you want it for free you get 128kb/s, you pay something like 5 dollars then you get 320kb/s, you pay 10 dollars then you can have it in whichever damn format you wish. I listen to just as much music as anyone else and I could really care less what the bitrate is (so long as it's 128kb/s or better) and neither do a lot of people. There exists enough people that do who I'm sure would be willing to part with some money for a higher quality download, I mean there are people anal enough to want everything in FLAC. The people who want stuff for free can still have it, and the people who want a finer quality product can pay for it, just like in the real world.
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