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As many of you know Apple Itunes has had a fixed price for each song in their store this meant that some labels aren't willing to license their songs to itunes. The music labels want to be able to change the price of the songs making new (more popular) music more expensive. EMI as well as Warner Music Group and Sony BMG are pushing Apple to introduce variable pricing to get more profit out of hot selling songs and it seems like Apple is buckling under the pressure.
Lets sell people a degraded product (MP3 so you lose some quality and no booklet etc) with additional restrictions (DRM) and lets now charge them extra for (new) popular music. I don't see how this should appeal to people.... It aint like the music labels have extra cost distributing them or anything because they sell that many of them (those costs are for Apple) and I personally don't believe that this flexible pricing will make music on average cheaper as most people with mp3 players are still young people who on average listen to more recent music.
When will those old geezers at the Music labels recognise they lost! The market wanted something different (mp3's) and they totally missed that train. Admit defeat and jump on the bandwagon and don't try to make your cds more popular in comparison by artificially inflating the price of the mp3s or do you really want to push people back in illegal downloading?
The sales of audio cds are down..... audio dvd are up not to mention all the money they make on ringtones and legal mp3s.
On a different but related note I personally hope enough people in America / Italy etc sue Sony over the whole DRM rootkit fiasco and drain them good and show the industry that they can't just do whatever they like.
As many of you know Apple Itunes has had a fixed price for each song in their store this meant that some labels aren't willing to license their songs to itunes. The music labels want to be able to change the price of the songs making new (more popular) music more expensive. EMI as well as Warner Music Group and Sony BMG are pushing Apple to introduce variable pricing to get more profit out of hot selling songs and it seems like Apple is buckling under the pressure.
Lets sell people a degraded product (MP3 so you lose some quality and no booklet etc) with additional restrictions (DRM) and lets now charge them extra for (new) popular music. I don't see how this should appeal to people.... It aint like the music labels have extra cost distributing them or anything because they sell that many of them (those costs are for Apple) and I personally don't believe that this flexible pricing will make music on average cheaper as most people with mp3 players are still young people who on average listen to more recent music.
When will those old geezers at the Music labels recognise they lost! The market wanted something different (mp3's) and they totally missed that train. Admit defeat and jump on the bandwagon and don't try to make your cds more popular in comparison by artificially inflating the price of the mp3s or do you really want to push people back in illegal downloading?
The sales of audio cds are down..... audio dvd are up not to mention all the money they make on ringtones and legal mp3s.
On a different but related note I personally hope enough people in America / Italy etc sue Sony over the whole DRM rootkit fiasco and drain them good and show the industry that they can't just do whatever they like.
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