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:don't blink, Apple

[RLiegh]

So, does he throw fifty dollar bills to the crowd during this silloquy or does he throw hundreds? and after he's made his speech does he don a red suit and ride off into the night sky on a sleigh pulled by raindeer?

Any time you want to drop the fan boy fantasies and join the rest of us here on Terra Firma you're more than welcome to do so. ;)

Re:A lawyer working for Warner said this:

[The_Quinn]

You spew vitriolic hatred toward companies - whose purpose it is to grow, excel, and be as profitable as possible. You want to bop along with your ipod, munching Doritos and sniggering about how mean the record companies are because last year downloads were 10 cents cheaper.

All these people in the industry devote their lives to the industry and work incredibly hard to achieve their goals. You (or I) don't know the first thing about the pressures and demands these people face day in, day out. But you don't have any problem scraping your fingernails on the chalkboard of whininess, and proclaiming "If anyone changes the price of music, I'll just steal it! Waaahhhhh"

Do you work for free? Have you ever changed jobs to make more money? Do you want to get by in life with more than barely subsisting in a cave with a hunk of meat? Then aren't YOU the "greedy bastard"?