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Jobs Resists Music Industry Pressure
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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iPod with it's DRM is just a continuation of the the perpetual LP/Cassete/CD/iTunes upgrade gotcha. When you buy iTunes, you buy into a DRM that may not be there in the future and you are locked into one vendor until then.
Sure, Apple fanbois will try and mute any criticism of their beloved worldview but the truth is that Apple's gift to the RIAA is their ability make kids go crazy to buy DRM products. One day Apple will raise the price of music and they'll be stuck.
Apple says "own it forever and a day" but apple reserves the right to change at any time you can do with music you purcase from iTunes.
No thanks Apple, I'll stick with MP3 and OGG.
With all due respect, piracy is where you board a ship and murder people. Yes I know, technically it describes illegal copying too, but technically "niggers" is just an ordinaly descriptive adjective that describes people with dark colored skin. The bottom line, it is that the word piracy says a lot more about the ignorance of the people who use it than the morality of those who copy information at their disposal freely.
You were inserting an iPod nano up your ass while you wrote that weren't you?
(A black one of course)
The main selling point for the iPod nano for me was the fact that my shit wouldn't show up so much on the black one after ramming it up my ass.
Sure, the U2 iPod is black too. But the red scroll wheel increases the chance of a false positive when checking for anal bleeding afterwards. Unacceptable, IMHO.
Game... blouses.
News flash: The record companies do not pay for the studio time, producers, recording equipment or anything else associated with making an album. They charge the artists for that. Record companies pay for marketing and advertising, although even then some of that is billed to the artists.
The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally.
Any reason you sell in Ogg Vorbis? Seems a good way to shoot yourself in the foot just to appease the geek squad?
To be honest, I felt the same way about Apple's AAC when they first started off. *NOTHING* supported AAC except iTunes and the iPod. Well, if you exclude the wierd stuff that played everything. At least, they had a few billion in the bank to push it to the masses, whilst you have geek angst backing you up.
Personally, I can't stand the tone of Ogg. If you are playing garage metal (or garage anything) you may not notice it. Same with most MP3s...they sound better at higher rates, but I generally go with AAC (unDRM'd) these days as it doesn't sound as shrill at the same bitrate.
If you ever get your store working in a decent file format, send me an email! This is the one and only reason I'm not going to invest more time looking at your site. All in all, finding a way to listen to music shouldn't be about politics...the music should be the message, not the file format you listen to it in.
BTW -- WFT with the java music player for the samples? Are you interested in promoting the music as all or are you just trying to profess your love for the RMS and all things OpenSource? I like what you are trying to do, but I think its failing at the core message. You've got to decide if you are selling music or the OpenSource religion.