More RIAA foot shooting could be coming in 2006 |
Loading ...It’s been a little while since I’ve moaned about the RIAA. One of the easiest things for me to predict is the RIAA doing the wrong thing when it comes to music and fans. Now Apple Insider mentions Japan’s Nikkei saying that Apple might be raising the prices of iTunes music in 2006 due to:
Apple’s 2006 problem,’ referring to the company’s licensing renegotiations with record labels scheduled for next year. Specifically, labels have been pushing Apple to increase its current fixed a-la-carte pricing structure in the US, Canada and Europe, the report states.
Just as legal online music purchases are starting to carry some steam, here comes the record company greed. Let’s release more CDs that can’t be copied and raise the price of iTunes music. If this is true, these people are the most clueless morons on the planet and deserve to be bankrupted.
They should be lowering the price of online music and giving more $$ to the artists, but they won’t listen to people like me, they’ll continue to try and live in the past. Dinosaurs.
[…] As mentioned here on August 1, I think this would be terrible mistake by the music companies: “If this is true, these people are the most clueless morons on the planet and deserve to be bankrupted.” […]
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