YouTube is clearly one of the greatest inventions known to
mankind. Whether you want to look up old
school music you forgot about to movies/TV Shows to even song lyrics, this is
the one website you go to first. However,
the videos that are posted are often converted into mp3/mp4 so that they avoid
paying the $1.29 for a song on iTunes.
Before
iTunes changed the price from $.99 to $1.29 per song and $1.29 to $1.99 per video,
I used to only buy from iTunes. I would
never convert a YouTube video to a song because $.99 for a song was
reasonable. Now, even though it is just
thirty cents more, that is just ridiculous to be paying $1.29 for one
song. I also discovered that buying the
CD from a store like Best Buy or Wal-Mart is also cheaper than buying the whole
album off of iTunes.
Since
converting YouTube videos to mp3/mp4 is essentially stealing and illegally
downloading a song, YouTube has been trying to shut down any converting
websites. However, this does not stop
people from downloading the videos. The site
that was shut down just reopens under another name. There are also apps for converting YouTube videos
right on your iPhone/iPad. Obviously
iTunes is doing everything on their part to combat converting YouTube
videos. In the newest iTunes update, you
are no longer allowed to edit the song name, album, artist, and even album
cover unless it was bought by iTunes or downloaded the CD. As everything else, there are always ways
around it.
30 cents is too much? What else can you buy for 30 cents? Do you pirate music or buy the whole album? 20 points.
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