Another interesting battle over music downloading - this time not about piracy, but about the pricing of Apple's popular iTunes. Record companies are putting pressure on Apple to charge more than 99cents a song.
Here's what John C. Dvorak at PC Magazine says:
"The goal is to kill iTunes and any online music service not directly owned by a label. The record companies don't like these systems for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that they work, proving that downloading music was a good idea from the beginning. I'm sure that still irks them, since it represents a decade-old 'I told you so!'"
It also reminds me of another old saying - killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
No comments:
Post a Comment