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Apple Sets Tune for Pricing of Song Downloads
PygmySurfer writes "Apple Computer on Monday revealed it had renewed contracts with the four largest record companies to sell songs through its iTunes digital store at 99 cents each. The agreements came after months of bargaining, and were a defeat for music companies that had been pushing for a variable pricing model."
his secret? he just said, "no"
-- lol pwned
I WISH people would 'get' that they don't HAVE to support DRM and the evil record companies.
allofmp3 (russia) does pay fees to artists (based on russian law, essentially a radio play fee for each downloaded song). but YOU get to decide if it has compression or if its flac or wav or whatever. all files are properly tagged and seem quite high quality (I've spent a few hundred $$ on that site - and I'll probably spend more, too).
when the cost of a WHOLE ALBUM is about a buck or so, why on earth would I pay 10x that for DRM versions??
boggle.
even if the itunes store was to price-match - it still has evil DRM. I will never ever buy any song that has DRM in it.
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Pay money for music? People are still doing that?