Posts Tagged with ‘pricing’

I’ve heard continuously over the past few months of growing friction between Apple, its iTunes marketplace, and the major record companies. Yes, the one’s that have been selling their content through iTunes. And at quite a fast pace, as of late. (What is the count of tracks sold now? 3 billion? 3.5? 4? Somewhere in that area, I presume.)
And quite honestly, I’ve never really understood why they haven’t being playing very well together. I mean, sure, they’ve got their [...]

When NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker took time Wednesday to stand atop his company’s soapbox, he said something quite true: that copyright owners are in fact “losing the battle” against the world’s digital pirates.
What he failed to follow his statement up with, however, is that it’s really no use fighting the copyright violators (which, I might add, he said most certainly should be done, and perhaps exponentially more forcefully), and that it’d be far more effective and financially beneficial for [...]