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Comments on news posted 2005-09-26 12:36:45: Steve Jobs recently opined that the music industry was "getting greedy" with their desire to change the iTunes pricing model from 99cents for most songs, to a system where more popular songs cost more ($1.50+). ..
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|  Screw 'em all..
Consumers have been brainwashed into believing that they can't live without this stuff. I can legally enjoy lots of alternate sources of good music without paying 99 cents a whack, much less the 1.50 proposed gouge.
Quite frankly, I can also enjoy the silence while I hike, canoe, bike, drive or sit in the park or on the veranda or in the back yard. I and many others have broken the habit of requiring constant manufactured entertainment in favor of alternate recreation and plain old good conversation with friends.
When more people realize they've been brainwashed, and finally realize that "must have" is a marketing trick, the consumer, not the industry execs, will control pricing. If the prices don't come down, you'll at least have found other new things to do and spend your money on.
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PwnZone | whatever happened to the ol practice of INVESTING? | |
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JustThinking
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| Why just pick on iPod. I suspect that is one way or another 100% of pirated music is played through a speaker of some kind (computer speakers, stereo speakers, TV speakers, headphones, etc.). It sounds obvious to me that this music could not be enjoyed without a speaker.
The RIAA should get a percentage (50% or so sounds fair based on the bootleg rate reported) of the retail costs of anything that contains a speaker (or anything derived from the speaker technology). This should ensure that those poor starving artists can afford to stop my McDonalds for a Big Mac. Now, of course, McDonalds will need to modify their drive through lanes to handle the super-stretch limos, but that's a different discussion. | |
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| Eat sh!t and die.... omfg all I can say is that this industry has got to be one of the most backward minded industry ever seen on the face of this blue earth. Do you see OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) going though GM or Ford or the United States Highway Transportation and Safty Board because they are not getting any money from the cars and trucks that burn their gas and are traveling on roads they don't own? SERIOUSLY WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU? YOU HAVE NO RIGHT OR SAY IN THAT MONEY!
It's like taxing air and claiming that your trees on your street produced it so you have a right to moreo the money. DUDE YOU ALREADY HAVE MORE THAN 80% of that damn revenue coming from Itunes. Go back to your 21 year old wife and your private estates, and leave Itunes and the common public out of your money laundering, and greedy 5 finger policies
I've said enough, someone agree with me please
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| Re: Eat sh!t and die.... omfg What else did you expect from a music industry CEO?
The truth? That bozo wouldn't know what the truth was
even if it was staring him in the face. Which it is.
The fact (and the entire entertainment industry is too
blinded by profit to see this) is that they are all
greedy bastards who want to squeeze every last nickel,
dime and dollar out of the consumer.
Well, I have news for the majors and the Big 7. We don't
need them for our entertainment anymore. May they all
shrivel up and die.
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| No Question The Bronfman family have a history of an affinity for money ... and at the expense of others. If memory serves, Revenue Canada changed some of the rules with regard to "residence" for its residents when abroad so it's harder to escape the tax man's noose ... as the Bronfmans did in moving funds offshore.
As to them being an alcohol company ... not really ... that's been pretty well destroyed as it ever was known. They're a money company. | |
| xrobertcmx
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clubs:  | Pardon me But how does this make the man seem less greedy?
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MacWin
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Imperial, MO | Greed is Good 
Greed is Good
The RIAA and MPAA recruiting poster
For those that don't get it google Gordon Gecko or Wallstreet | |
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calvoiper
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| Bronf baby's real problem His real problem is that his company used to be one of a few players controlling a market and sucking money out of the whole distribution chain.
The Internet has upset his apple cart. I expect that before long, he'll go the same way as Ed Whitacre (SBC) and Ivan Seidneberg (Verizon) and seek relaxed government regulations so that the older players are freer to use their market muscle in anticompetitive ways.
Expect to see more legislation authorizing "cooperation" among the old guard in the entertainment industry.
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ZosoPage
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| friggin stoopid Ok, I don't know about you, but this is ridiculous... if this logic is correct, then the RIAA should get profits from the creators of: DVD players/recorders(they play music) computers, Cassette Recorders and the list goes on... but lets take it a bit further. I think that the ISP's should get a bit of the profit because without them, we would not be able to use IPODs to get our music from ITunes which gets its music from the RIAA.. JUST KIDDING, but am I making my point? | |
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yukycg
@optonline.net | want more money = greed You want more money? That's GREED, first lesson taught in my business enteprise class. Nothing wrong being greedy in US business world, but not admitting you're one of them, RIAA you just make a joke out of yourself | |
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ctceo
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clubs: | Greenbacks Money is the tangible form of greed... This is a statement of fact, not a value judgement. | |
| | emptywig
Huh? What?
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| iTunes As Record Label Steve Jobs should turn iTunes into a record label.
Sign artists, sell music, videos and mechandise directly through ITMS. SCrew the major labels. Steve has the personality to pull artists away from those big, faceless corporations which seem to be helmed by greedy retards.
Working directly with the artists would allow them to make more $$ per sale, allow the artist to make more $$ per sale, and eliminate the ridiculous overhead that currently eats up so much profit that the artist should see. | |
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