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Musescore recently started charging for profiles with more than 5 pieces. Here is the public's reaction. http://musescore.com/groups/15681/discuss/26501#comment-38814
Why doesn't muse' do what ever other website on the internet does and put advertising in unimportant places, rather than squeeze budding composers. Whatsmore the entire ethic of charging people for a universally share thing such as music is flawed. Musescore was probably the only good place on the internet (you can tell i'm serious because i'm not saying interweb) where you could come and improve you're work as a composer. You have taken something of great work and commercialised it. Greed is the source of all suffering. And damn hell are you greedy. I know muse' will probably take this down; no better than china censoring the internet of free speech. "Greed is the source of all suffering"- the Buddha
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definitely correct
The answer to your question is given at: http://musescore.com/groups/improving-musescore-com/discuss/55062
As for our ethics, we believe it's in exactly the right place. To say it with a known quote: "If you're not paying for it, you become the product". And this is not the type of business we wanted to create. See also http://bit.ly/ztjv8n
I agree that advertising would solve this problem, but if that won't work at least you could raise the piece limit. The reason I downloaded the software and made an account was because it was free, and I bet most of the members here are in the same boat. The idea behind Musescore is fantastic, but imposing a fee would ruin it for many people.
Frankly, I would rather be tracked than charged. I presume the sudden onset of charging is something to do with the founder quitting his/her job to work on muse'. Perhaps a wikimedia style organisation run by volunteers would be appropriate.