derek | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 14 2006 | france, drm, itunes, apple, consumer rights, digital music, news
Quoted: France is pushing through a law that would force Apple Computer to open its iTunes online music store and enable consumers to download songs onto ...
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 14 2005 | apple, itunes, drm, digital music, music
I agree with the assessment (I would never pay $1 for the DRM crap Apple is selling on iTunes), but I'm still quite surprised by the fall-off.
Quoted: Now legal downloads may be losing their luster. According to Nielsen SoundScan, average weekly download sales as of Nov. 27 fell 0.44% vs. the third quarter. Says independent media analyst Richard Greenfield: "We're not seeing the kind of dramatic growth we should given the surge in sales of iPods and other MP3 players." ... Which brings us to a grand irony: Apple, which launched the digital music revolution, may now be holding it back.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 20 2005 | apple, itunes, digital music, news
This is a good illustration of why Jobs' power in the digital music business is making the record labels angry.
Quoted: Apple Computer Inc. chief executive Steve Jobs vowed Tuesday to resist music companies' "greedy" demands for increases in the prices of music downloads and warned that any such steps would encourage piracy.
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