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Music Labels May Seek Higher Download Prices
punxking writes "Some of the big music labels are now clamoring to raise prices for digital music downloads. From the article: 'Music industry executives said introductory wholesale prices for digital tracks had been set low to stimulate demand for online music sales but the success of Apple's music store had prompted concern that they may now be too low.'" Relatedly, the BBC is reporting that iTunes is under investigation in Britain for charging disparities between the UK and the European continent.
Slashdot and OSDN are clamoring to raise subscription rates!
/dev/null... "How are we to justify raising subscription rates if the readers weren't getting the same old shit twice?"
In a move that the OSDN bean-counters believe will give Slashdot and OSDN more cash on hand, Slashdot.org is announcing that they are raising subscription rates to $5.25 for 1000 pages of ad-free* viewing.
More and more frequently Slashdot has been giving its readers the opportunity to read day old news AGAIN! The editors of the site claim that this is part of their overall marketing plan:
Rob Malda (aka CmdrTaco) was quoted in the NYT (vampire sucking required) as saying, "well we give you TWICE the news in two days so we thought it was only right that our subscribers pay a little bit extra!"
Zonk was quoted as saying, "well we give you TWICE the news in two days so we thought it was only right that our subscribers pay a little bit extra!"
While Slashdot does have an e-mail link on their site to allow Slashdot subscribers to report these duplicates to the "Editor on Duty" the editors have admitted in secret taped conversations (on IRC) that the email address is bunk and goes to
* - ad-free only refers to banner ads, not posts to the main page that are made to appear as "stories" when they are in all actuality advertisements (i.e. iPods)
I thought they were just talking about doing this a few days ago...Greedy bastards...sheesh!
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Good luck pushing Wal*Mart. They've never bowed to a supplier. If they want to sell digital music at 25-cents a track, the music industry can just take it in the rear.
Oh, wait, there's legitmate places to download music online from?!!!
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Shoot, as long as slashdot is the de facto source for redundancy, how about we make a poll for the subject:
Slashdot poll: Which article is better?
1)iTunes downloads prices increasing article referenced here (yesterday)
2)iTunes downloads prices increasing article referenced here (today's)
3)the iTunes article dupe we'll see tomorrow.
4) the iTunes article for when the prices actually change
5) dupe slashdot article for #4
6) dupe slashdot article for #4 AND #5.
Come on guys. I know you can get on the same page.
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One of the bennes is that he sees stories before they are actually published for the unwashed masses.
I'm not a subscriber and I saw this story before it was posted... : p
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
The music industry loses all credibility the moment it says "Apple may become too powerful."
Oh, so now Apple is trying to take over the world?
What next? The Salvation Army?
And the people who really want to karma whore can cut-n-paste the highest-rated articles from yesterday (or the lowest-rated if you're into trolling).
Maybe someone should just write a script that automatically posts ...
Let me recommend Slashdot
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RTFJ.
I kind of like Walmart's discussions with the media industry a little better:
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I don't come here for variety, I come here for redundancy.
I would point you to Slashdot Editor Training, where all Editors learn how to avoid dupes, perform thorough spell- and fact-checking, and (best of all) write well-crafted, bug-free code.
Yeah, right.
The real reason they want to charge more is that it will increase the market value of piracy, thus the marketing value of piracy, but not substantially increase what they really lose from piracy.
Example of their current arithmetic:
1,000,000 songs at $0.50 each = $500,000
but, if they charge more it suddnly becomes:
1,000,000 songs at $0.75 each = $750,000
Oh, no! Piracy has just gone up 50%!
Just a thought.
Exam 4/C again. Maybe I'll do better this time.
I don't come here for variety, I come here for redundancy.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
I've just discovered that there's a site which looks just like slashdot at http://nodupes.slashdot.org. Given the name, maybe they don't have dupes.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Think of the dupe as a remake of the original "classic" post.