Steve Jobs calls record companies "Greedy"

[westkoast]

Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs acknowledged publicly for the first time today that a number of record companies were pressuring him to raise the price of song downloads above they 99-cent price they have had since the inception of the iTunes Music Store.
Record companies already make a higher margin through an iTunes sale versus a CD with all its associated manufacturing and distribution costs, Jobs reasoned while addressing reporters at the opening of the Paris Apple Expo. “So if they want to raise the price, it just means they’re getting a little greedy,” Jobs said, according to reports.

Jobs also warned that increasing the price of iTunes tracks would only encourage continued online piracy. “If the price goes up, they [consumers] will go back to piracy and everybody loses,” he said.

Meanwhile, Apple iPod division Sr. VP Jon Rubinstein told reporters that there wasn’t currently sufficient demand for the company to add a radio tuner to the iPod.

And asked whether Apple would be unveiling an all-Apple-built iTunes cell phone following the very lukewarm response to the just-released, iTunes-equipped Motorola Rokr phone, Jobs said simply, “We do not say anything about future products. 'We work on them in secret, then we announce them.”

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Hopefully they put pressure on him to raise it to 1.25 a song so people get pissed and go back to fully pirating mp3s.  This sickens me so much and I dont even purchase online.  Vinyl only baby!

[Reality]

Has anyone found a legal way to avoid contributing to music industry greedoids?

Like is there a download spot that's legal or dream on, the music biz and the politicos have shut it down?

[Derek Bodner]

This is rich:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050922-5339.html

"Now, we need to understand that listening to music on your computer is an extra privilege. Normally people listen to music on their car or through their home stereos...you should consider purchasing a regular CD player."

What it should read is:
Purchasing your crap music is a privilege, not a right.  Since your records have the "CD" logo on them, that means they are compatible with all compact disc players.  If you are going to produce a disc with the "CD" logo on it, it must be able to be played in my "CD" labelled player, you don't get to change that with DRM protected crap".

[westkoast]

Has anyone found a legal way to avoid contributing to music industry greedoids?

Like is there a download spot that's legal or dream on, the music biz and the politicos have shut it down?

Not sure in other genres but I know in hip hop there are a number of smaller underground arists who in fact sell albums to be downloaded cheaper than what they sell for in the stores or they let you download for free from their own website.  As for a one stop spot? Nope!  They dont exist to my knowledge.  At least not for any big name artists.


Wow that sickens me.  Its a priveledge for me to listen on my computer?  No, its a RIGHT for me to listen to music I paid for wherever I damn well please.    I spend my hard earned money on a product that 1) severly overpriced and 2) proceeds goto guys who have very little to no input on the creative side of the product and its a priveledge for me to listen on my computer at work?  I spend more time on my computer at work then I do in my car or even in my own home