Comments on: Apple Could Shutter iTunes if Royalty Rates Rise

By: AdamC

AdamC — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:05:46 +0000

BTW most of the songs in the iPods are ripped from CDs and what have you and they can play most of today’s music platforms except the proprietary one that locked into zune.
In today’s turbulent economic climate it is better to stop loss than run at a loss which may in turn affect the bottom line of the whole company – when Apple lowball their forecast they got hammered and if they missed a guideline hell will break loose.
@Sean – you are right – there is a free alternative. And songs will be shared among a community freely and free.
BTW Apple is fighting to bring digital music cheaply to the masses and for this act they are being castigated by many-sad.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:51:24 +0000

To Our Customers

A recent decision by the Copyright Royalty Board coupled with an unwillingness by the RIAA to absorb additional royalty payments to members of the National Music Publishers’ Association has made it impossible to continue to sell music on the iTunes Music Store at what we feel is a fair price for our customers. This has left us with no option other than to close the iTunes Music Store. Please follow the link below:

http://www.limewire.com/

We feel this represents a fair alternative for our customers.

By: Ed Oswald

Ed Oswald — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:30:07 +0000

That’s what I’m thinking. Such a move would make the record labels think twice :)

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:43:37 +0000

If this passes, I would like to see Apple pull iTunes music store if only for a few days (if they can do that, not sure if they have contracts that say they have to publish certain labels during year x for y number of years). Let the record labels see how much money they are losing without iTunes. Maybe then Apple can come back and say, we’ll charge one buck per track and they all have to be DRM free.