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Music Industry Threatens to Pull Plug on Apple
bacterial_pus writes "First the music industry wanted
more money, by changing Apple's 99 cents per song policy. Now one exec is
threatening to pull the plug on Apple if Steve Jobs doesn't change the iTunes Music Store pricing." From the article: "Nash's comments echoes those made last week by Warner CEO Edgar Bronfman, who called for Apple to adopt variable pricing and share out revenues from iPod sales. The record companies' position is based on the dubious argument that digital downloads sell iPods. In fact all the evidence points to the opposite: that iPod sales have driven demand for downloads. The vast majority of digital music sales are made by iPod owners. Cut off Apple and the labels digital sales will slump." More recently Jobs resisted their pressure, and the execs snarked back. Looks like they're getting more serious.
If the execs really want to see what drives people toward digital downloads then they should look at iTunes. iTunes is what makes this all so easy so let's give the execs %100 of the profit from iTunes.
Oh! That's right... iTunes is FREE!
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a nice move would be to call for price cuts - about 50% would be about right.
Jobs should do this in front of Congress, if available.
I'll bet he could disclose how little it costs to distribute the songs, and pose the musical question - "How Much Profit?"
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What? You mean the recording industry doesn't get a cut whenever a CD player or a set of speakers is sold? Clearly the music industry is floundering.
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Fine with me, I'll just go back to stealing music.
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I think you're being a little harsh. Let's allow the market decide if the RIAA deserves some of the proceeds from iPod sales.
At the sale of each iPod in the Apple store, ask the customer to donate $1, $10 or $25 directly to the RIAA. Apple will collect the money and (after assessing appropriate handling charges) send them a check.
hmmm... typical of the dumbass /. posters, everyone here seems to be discussing who is making money for whom, and how dumb the music industry is, and how small their penis was before they took the pills. all completely irrelevant
It is absolutely, positively, w/o a doubt illegal for a record company to tell apple "share in ipod sales or I will not allow you to sell my music." no company can single out a reseller like that. that's why we do not have pure capitalism, but one with governmental controls. it is also illegal for them to tell apple how much to charge its customers for the songs. they can only charge Apple more for the songs.
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This just another attempt of theirs to eschew their customers...
Methinks you misspelled screw.
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I guess they don't consider extortion by big business stealing
I guess to them stealing is only stealing when it's an individual (usually a minor) who they can then threaten with a lawsuit
(Isn't that extortion also?,)
That is wht the Tech big wigs need to do. Google should buy one, yahoo, MS and Apple...
Yeah, that's a great idea! But since there's a fifth big record company, we'll need a fifth big technology company to buy another. Let's see... how about.. yeah! Sony! Since they're a technology company, they'll want to avoid nasty things like DRM and price fixing. I can see it now...
> If they cut off the air supply to Itunes ...
Frankly I'd support it if the music execs cut Air Supply out of iTunes.
Experiment!
Tech companies that are trying to sell their technology will have a friendler stance about copyright and the consumer than the record companies would.
Yeah, like Sony! They're a tech company. They should buy a record label, maybe some movie studios.... I bet they'd release all their stuff under CC licenses! It would be great!
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Heh, they could call it APPLE RECORDS.
I hope they get what they deserve. Six weeks in hell.
Man, this sucks. When I was a lad, if you earned something it was yours. Buy a phonograph record? It's yours, you keep it, you play it as often as you like, wherever you like, till it wears out. Fall foul of a capricious deity? You're damned to hell for all eternity, where your soul shall be tormented in lakes of burning sulphur, yea, and your worm didn't die, nor was your fire quenched. Now it's all "DRM this" and "license that" and "purgatory the other". Your music expires after a month, the TV shows you record delete themselves the next day, and you can't even get into hell for more than six months at a time before you have to go out and sin some more!
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I never did like that right foot. Good riddance.
I really don't have a problem with the RIAA shooting themselves in the foot.
;-)
Although, I do sometimes wish they'd aim a bit higher...
I think your average drugs dealers is a bit better than these guys
True. At least a drug dealer is selling something people want. Unlike the crap the record industry is producing.
This post was fucking hilarious and I'm kinda sad I couldn't mod it up.
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Hi Bill, Steve here. Say, I know we've had a few differences in the past but how would you like to OWN THE FUCKING MUSIC INDUSTRY with me. I'll spin off iTunes into joint venture that we'll share and you and your $27.87 Billion will be used for financial backing. I have the disturbution you've got the cash to burn. And, hey, calling it itunes means apple records(assholes) can't sue me any longer.
iPod nanos are going to sell like hookers this Christmas
Are hookers going to sell particularly well this Christmas? I would think that with New Orleans still recovering from the flood, it would be kind of a down year for prostitution...
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