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Hey, I'm just talkin' from my personal experience. Perhaps your searches can validate Mr. Schiller's "verocity." But I was extremely disappointed by my findings in the iTunes store. My musical tastes are extremely varied, so to only find a single album offering the reduced prices makes me think I'm not getting the straight scoop from Mr. Schiller.
iTunes is DRM-free, adds variable pricing
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 10:38 AM
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 10:59 AM
Hillstones,
Here's the Apple limitation on de-authorizing your computers once a year (which is actually the hard drive on it):
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420
If the remaining 2GB's of my Apple purchased iTunes songs were upgradeable to iTunes Plus, I wouldn't have made my original post.
If Apple went belly up, and your hard drive failed, you'd have no way to re-authorize your music. Unplayable. And you can't burn to CD an unauthorized song (legally) from iTunes.
Here's the Apple limitation on de-authorizing your computers once a year (which is actually the hard drive on it):
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420
If the remaining 2GB's of my Apple purchased iTunes songs were upgradeable to iTunes Plus, I wouldn't have made my original post.
If Apple went belly up, and your hard drive failed, you'd have no way to re-authorize your music. Unplayable. And you can't burn to CD an unauthorized song (legally) from iTunes.
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 02:13 PM
"Hey, I'm just talkin' from my personal experience. Perhaps your searches can validate Mr. Schiller's "verocity." But I was extremely disappointed by my findings in the iTunes store. My musical tastes are extremely varied, so to only find a single album offering the reduced prices makes me think I'm not getting the straight scoop from Mr. Schiller. "
I can see that you would think that you are not getting "straight scoop from Mr. Schiller", however you called Mr. Schiller a baldfaced lair without adequate data to back up such a claim. I have not had a chance to look at the current iTunes pricing yet, however it is what it is so either you buy from iTunes, or buy CDs or buy from Amazon, or do not buy, etc.
I do think that the variable pricing model is not good for the recording industry at large because if they increase the price too much people will just go back to the P2P networks and get downloads for "free". Additionally people were generally happy with the flat $0.99 per track on iTunes and they were buying, now it will be interesting to see if sales fall off.
The record labels had Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store at an extreme competitive disadvantage due to other services being completely DRM free and iTunes still being required to sell DRM'd tracks under the flat $0.99 per track model. So something had to give for iTunes to remain competitive, not to mention the problems caused by DRM and lack of interoperability in Europe, and Apple, Inc. compromised on variable pricing. Since this is the early days of variable pricing we will all have to see how it settles out, however knowing the record labels they will push for higher and higher prices and may end up pushing some people back to P2P.
I can see that you would think that you are not getting "straight scoop from Mr. Schiller", however you called Mr. Schiller a baldfaced lair without adequate data to back up such a claim. I have not had a chance to look at the current iTunes pricing yet, however it is what it is so either you buy from iTunes, or buy CDs or buy from Amazon, or do not buy, etc.
I do think that the variable pricing model is not good for the recording industry at large because if they increase the price too much people will just go back to the P2P networks and get downloads for "free". Additionally people were generally happy with the flat $0.99 per track on iTunes and they were buying, now it will be interesting to see if sales fall off.
The record labels had Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store at an extreme competitive disadvantage due to other services being completely DRM free and iTunes still being required to sell DRM'd tracks under the flat $0.99 per track model. So something had to give for iTunes to remain competitive, not to mention the problems caused by DRM and lack of interoperability in Europe, and Apple, Inc. compromised on variable pricing. Since this is the early days of variable pricing we will all have to see how it settles out, however knowing the record labels they will push for higher and higher prices and may end up pushing some people back to P2P.
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Posted 07 April 2009 - 02:19 PM
" Hmm, noticed some interesting stuff. For example, Pink Floyd's entire catalog is $0.99, while Led Zeppelin's stuff is all $1.29. Anything to do with the record label or something?"
I guess that Jimmy, Robert, John, and the Estate of John need more money. ;)
I guess that Jimmy, Robert, John, and the Estate of John need more money. ;)
