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Music Industry Set To Introduce the "Ringle"
mrneutron2003 writes "The RIAA has officially backed a move by the recording industry to reintroduce the CD single. Populated with three songs and a ringtone, this brilliantly clueless idea is to be marketed as a 'ringle,' complete with an even more clueless retail price of $6-7 per CD. Apart from the fact the industry hasn't agreed on how the ringtone is to be redeemed (Sony BMG, the initial proponent of the idea, is the exception here), the pricing puts it way out of line with legitimate digital music downloads." At $7, retailers would enjoy a profit margin they haven't seen since the days of cassette tapes and vinyl.
THREE uncompressed (CD-quality) DRM-free songs for $6? That's about $2.00 per song, not much higher than Apple's DRM-free pricing.
What the fuck are you on about? There shouldn't be ANY DRM on music distributed by the conglomerates as it helps to disable fair use.
How dare you accept this bone throw from the music industry as acceptable? Remember when they were found guilty of price fixing and had to give us all back $13 and then give out millions more in overstocked worthless inventory to non-profits and educational institutions? If anything, that taught them nothing and they are continuing to win their media blitz by having people like you believe that $2/song is acceptable.