RIAA Threatens to pull plug on iTunes...

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: SMOGZINN
The thing is this is not about profit, this about saving their business. They believe, and rightfully so, that iTunes and its like endangers their entire business structure. You see, they are distributors. They do not make a product, they do not sell a product, they simply move a product from one location to another or from one person to another. The method they have always used to do this was putting music on a physical medium and shipping it to an outlet that then sold it, but with the internet that is no longer necessary. How long until Apple realizes that they no longer need that service and starts to sign bands directly?
No amount of money will make the music distributors happy because they know that they are obsolete and are fighting to hold off the day when everyone else recognizes it.

I don't think Apple can sign bands directly without getting sued. I believe their agreement with Apple Corp. keeps them from going beyond what they have now (but I could be mistaken).

Doesn't that expire as well?

 

[ILikeStuff]

Originally posted by: toekramp

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: SMOGZINN
The thing is this is not about profit, this about saving their business. They believe, and rightfully so, that iTunes and its like endangers their entire business structure. You see, they are distributors. They do not make a product, they do not sell a product, they simply move a product from one location to another or from one person to another. The method they have always used to do this was putting music on a physical medium and shipping it to an outlet that then sold it, but with the internet that is no longer necessary. How long until Apple realizes that they no longer need that service and starts to sign bands directly?
No amount of money will make the music distributors happy because they know that they are obsolete and are fighting to hold off the day when everyone else recognizes it.

I don't think Apple can sign bands directly without getting sued. I believe their agreement with Apple Corp. keeps them from going beyond what they have now (but I could be mistaken).

not to mention the agreement that Apple had with the Beatle's company Apple... something along the lines that the business wouldn't deal with music...whoops!

Link

Ouch

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: ILikeStuff

Originally posted by: toekramp

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: SMOGZINN
The thing is this is not about profit, this about saving their business. They believe, and rightfully so, that iTunes and its like endangers their entire business structure. You see, they are distributors. They do not make a product, they do not sell a product, they simply move a product from one location to another or from one person to another. The method they have always used to do this was putting music on a physical medium and shipping it to an outlet that then sold it, but with the internet that is no longer necessary. How long until Apple realizes that they no longer need that service and starts to sign bands directly?
No amount of money will make the music distributors happy because they know that they are obsolete and are fighting to hold off the day when everyone else recognizes it.

I don't think Apple can sign bands directly without getting sued. I believe their agreement with Apple Corp. keeps them from going beyond what they have now (but I could be mistaken).

not to mention the agreement that Apple had with the Beatle's company Apple... something along the lines that the business wouldn't deal with music...whoops!

Link

Ouch

:shocked:

 

[Gooberlx2]

Let me tell you what I think they are up to. 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!"

I say that bands ditch their damn labels and sell lossless albums directly off their own websites, for a drastically lower price than that of a CD. The only people they might have to share profits with would be a recording studio....and lots of studios only charge flat fees/rates and don't share in on albums sales. Rich bands could afford to do their own startups and perhaps do sort of a peer promotion, where they sponsore up-and-coming bands that they like.

 

[Amused]

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[0roo0roo]

silly riaa. but yea they were used to making profit on even the bad songs you were forced to buy on those albums. so yes they do make less money, but they are making money. just being greedy and trying to rape their paying customers.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Apple LOSES money on iTunes. Why don't they say to hell with the RIAA? If they think Apple needs to sell mp3s to sell iPods, they are sorely mistaken!