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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: reyfer on November 02, 2006, 02:22:56 PM

Title: Oricon drops PC music downloads
Post by: reyfer on November 02, 2006, 02:22:56 PM

From Japan-zone:

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Oricon, the company behind the Japanese pop charts, is going to drop its system for downloading music to PCs. The service is losing too much money, with only about 80-90,000 downloads a month. 300-350,000 are needed to make a profit. The service has been running since March 2005.

C-NET NEWS (http://news.com.com/Apple+pushes+Oricon+to+quit+PC+music+downloads/2100-1027_3-6131340.html)

Title: Oricon drops PC music downloads
Post by: jptest on November 05, 2006, 04:34:03 PM

it  to go kaput!!!

Title: Oricon drops PC music downloads
Post by: ~Dan~ on November 05, 2006, 05:07:54 PM

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Oricon, the company behind the Japanese pop charts, is going to drop its system for downloading music to PCs. The service is losing too much money, with only about 80-90,000 downloads a month. 300-350,000 are needed to make a profit. The service has been running since March 2005.

That doesn't make sense.
ONLY 80-90,000 downloads a month would make a lot of money.  How much profit do they need?  It can't cost that much to put a few mp3's onto a website.