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Originally Posted by Hellmark
This reminds me of the site Amiestreet.com, which before it was bought and shutdown by Amazon, worked on the idea that the more popular something was, the higher the price was.
Things would start out as free downloads, and every so many downloads, the price would slowly increase until it hit a buck a download. You caught onto a song before it was popular, and you saved. It also helped see what was popular and well liked, by simply seeing how much it was selling for. I just checked, and the price scheme was 15 downloads yielded a price of 1¢, 25 yielded 15¢, 50 yielded 50¢, and buys yielded 98¢ (the top price).
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Interesting site, do you think Amazon bought the tech but decided against the concept? It would appear that download bots could easily skew the numbers by just downloading everything multiple times.
Also, reversing the practice, pricing everything at 5 dollars and then lowering based on number of downloads would run into the same bot issues, an end to anonymity and better authentication might help though.
Everything is a temporary solution until we see the end of pricing and the dawning of the new age.
As far as the dribble of this thread goes, it is far more interesting to me than most other content currently on the web, and that is all that matters.