Music Exec Fires Back At Apple CEO

geniusj writes "Warner Music Group CEO, Edgar Bronfman Jr., has fired back at Steve Jobs in response to the Apple CEO's claim that having variable pricing for iTunes music would be 'greedy.' From the article: 'To have only one price point is not fair to our artists, and I dare say not appropriate to consumers. The market should decide, not a single retailer ... Some songs should be $0.99 and some songs should be more. I don't want to give anyone the impression that $0.99 is a thing of the past ... We are selling our songs through iPod, but we don't have a share of iPod's revenue ... We want to share in those revenue streams. We have to get out of the mindset that our content has promotional value only.' Perhaps iPods combined with iPods are selling music as well, and it's not just a one-way street?"

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done deal

[fuck_this_shit]

the market already has decided, music is free via bittorrent at the appopriate pricepoint of 0.00$ and the artisits and music industry fully participate in the zero revenue generated this way.

Re:Do they get a share of the sale of CD players?

[macdaddy357]

Check out this quote: "To have only one price point is not fair to our artists..." Our artists? Did the labels buy then at a slave auction? Are they property? Niether "A" in RIAA stands for artists, so when the recording industry claims to care about them, don't be fooled. They are as disposable as a loaded diaper (not the cloth kind, duh!) to the labels. Don't buy CDs.