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Offline reyfer

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Oricon drops PC music downloads
« on: November 02, 2006, 02:22:56 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.


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Offline jptest

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Oricon drops PC music downloads
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2006, 04:34:03 PM »
it  to go kaput!!!

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Oricon drops PC music downloads
« Reply #2 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.
Sig gone. Tinypic is no more.

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