From the Wall Street Journal and BetaNews, rumblings today about Apple possibly introducing variable pricing in their iTunes Music Store, at the behest of the music industry. Songs by popular artists would be more than $.99 and lesser-known artists would be priced at $.99 or lower. The music industry has been pressuring Apple and Steve Jobs to introduce this almost since the iTunes Music Store was launched.
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2 Comments
Leave it to the music publishers to screw this up. ITMS is the _only_ real inroad they have toward a profit model in downloadable music, and they’re letting their desire to screw the consumer blind them yet again. Figures.
Even $0.99 a pop is too much to pay when it means part of it goes into the pockets of these asshats.
There is a pretty good article on what has just happened.It looks like I am going back P2P.