If putting food on your table is a person’s priority especially due to economic status then buying unnecessary luxuries like music should probably the last thing on their mind.

But then again Pinoys are known to waste money buying expensive mobile phone despite of their current financial status.

ultimately, it’s unrealistic to assume that you’ll ever clamp down on piracy completely. however, we do think that providing a compelling and convenient user experience will go a long way towards making mobiuslive.net a really viable option for people who don’t necessarily enjoy the chaotic nature of P2P networks or the hit-and-miss quality of pirated CDs.

Ahh yes, in an ideal world where everyone feels and acts like a true-blue supporter, the model should work just fine (Yes, the 55% is really a huge cut in their advantage.). However, I am bsing my hunch on the current level of piracy and popularity of p2p networks.

Better spend those hard earned bucks to putting food in their stomach instead.

The price point will be PhP20.00 per track, with 55% of the revenue going *directly to the artist*. This is, I believe, the most important part of the digital-music puzzle, as very few competitors will give the artists anywhere near that much. (Even the uber-magnanimous Magnatune only gives 50%.)

Apart from really stimulating the local independent music scene, we believe that this will help encourage legal music downloads, as consumers will know that most of the money they are paying goes right to the artist, instead of having 95% of it waylaid by record labels or vendors.

In other words, you aren’t “sticking it to the man” by sharing music from MobiusLive.net, you’re literally stealing it from the artists.