This offer sounds great if you look at it for the first time. But i am sure that the record companies get paid, if not by the tunes, then how about useage and preference data?
Is it not obvious how this store could elegantly and quietly be used to harvest useage data from the users?
Demographic data, song preferences, by the end of the year even world wide...
So yeah, 1 buck for a song sounds good, you just pay the rest otherwise, either to Apple itself, or to the RIAA, or to both of them.
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This offer sounds great if you look at it for the first time. But i am sure that the record companies get paid, if not by the tunes, then how about useage and preference data? Is it not obvious how this store could elegantly and quietly be used to harvest useage data from the users? Demographic data, song preferences, by the end of the year even world wide... So yeah, 1 buck for a song sounds good, you just pay the rest otherwise, either to Apple itself, or to the RIAA, or to both of them.