How to capture the Roadburn Festival webcast to disk

[Jill Strobridge]

Thank you for that!  It certainly sounds straightforward and simple enough. 
I also understand that Ebay and Yahoo recently agreed on a merger - mainly 
so that Yahoo could get use of Paypal so clearly it's the way things are 
going.

cheers
jill

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Jill Strobridge <jill.strobridge at blueyonder.co.uk>
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From: "M Holmes" <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
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Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: How to capture the Roadburn Festival webcast to disk


> Jill Strobridge writes:
>
>> ok  I'm a pedant but surely it needs to be much harder than
>> just-a-click-away?  However I have to confess that although I've seen 
>> sites
>> where MP3 tracks were available for payment I've never clicked on one!
>> What actually happens when you do?    Sorry if this sounds stupidly
>> ignorant - it is!  I have never downloaded paid music from a web site and
>> have no idea how you pay the fee!
>
> The simplest way is to take an online account, such as Paypal, which is
> linked to your credit card (or you can just put money in from a linked
> bank account).
>
> Then you CLICK on the web button to download the music of choice. You
> select Paypal to pay. That takes you to the Paypal secure site to be
> billed. Another CLICK on the Pay Now button and the money wings its way
> from your Paypal account to that of the band, with a fee going to Paypal
> (2% of small purchases I think). You see the bill later on your credit
> card statement. The band can either use the funds to buy something
> online or decant them to a Real World bank account to spend on beer.
>
> You type in credit card details once at the Paypal site and then
> anything on the web that's for sale really is just a couple of clicks
> away. Businesses that sell on Ebay see regular money coming in that way
> because they relist the same items every day or even every hour.
> Obviously there are many thousands of bands that get their bread and
> butter this way - most of them will probably never ever see a standard
> record deal.
>
> FoFP
>
>