Jobs Resists Music Industry Pressure

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 20, 2005 @05:51AM from the hold-firm dept.

Drew writes "Steve Jobs is opposed to raising the price of online music sales, calling the music industry greedy, and implying that price increases will bring about more piracy." From the article: "It may not seem like it, but it has been more than two years since the launch of the iTunes Music Store, and that alone has the music industry brimming with hopes for price-adjustments. They also don't buy Jobs' argument that a price increase will result in more piracy, but probably not for the reasons we might assume. I've long been of the conviction that piracy is not nearly as large of a problem as the RIAA makes it out to be." Also covered at Macworld.

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Re:Abroad... by Dachannien · 2005-09-20 06:48 · Score: 0, Redundant

Just what I was thinking! "Pretty good"? Bah. Weird Al rules!
Re:What? by mbbac · 2005-09-20 08:18 · Score: 0, Redundant

You can just get the song you want rather than the whole album. It's rare today to actually like all the songs on an album.
Not if you're getting the right albums.

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