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.

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Re:Music exces are idiots

[vought]

They don't just want a bigger slice of the pie... they also want the pie to be bigger.

Much like our president, the want to make the pie higher.

FOR FUCK'S SAKE

[Soul-Burn666]

I HAVE SAID THE OBVIOUS UP THERE. It was there just to show a small point that most people know already, but it's there for those who don't.

I don't need the fucking karma, others do.
Try reading at -1, you'd be amazed what informative/insightful posts get modded down on a whim of a moderator, sometimes causing new posters to have negative karma, lose the will to post and stop posting. And by that leaving the forum to old posters that post the same inane jokes and redundant opinions. It's rare to have one that actually SAYS something.

Seriously, whoever gets to metamoderate my above post, please mod it unfair.
The moderation system is broken, and the above post proves it.