[Wolves] LUG Meeting 'free music' discussion continued - Anti-iTunes site

[chris procter]

> iTunes Music Store - facelift for a corrupt industry
> 
> http://www.downhillbattle.org/itunes/
> 
> Woo

I agreed with most of the page up until:-

"Apple takes a 35% cut from every song and every album
sold, a huge amount considering how little they have
to do."

All they have to do is provide the bandwidth, servers,
diskspace, credit card taking systems, methods to pay
the recordlabels artists etc, advertising, sys-admins,
designers, management, people to negotiate the
agreements, and the offices and infrastructure to
house all of the above.

Simple.

iTunes isn't a hugely profitable business for Apple,
it was designed to break even and promote iPod sales
and though iirc it does make a profit now its probably
less then the money some big artists make a year.

The cry of retailers are evil becuase the record
companies are evil is just dumb. If you dont like
record companies blame the record companies themselves
(and conversly if you have a legitimate grip against
iTunes then blame Apple not the record companies)

chris

p.s. does music want to be free?



		
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