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iTunes has it made.
Dec. 17th, 2003 03:01 amApple just announced that it hit 25 million downloads. That's $25 Mil in the bank, since it's a buck a song/dl.
The RIAA should be embracing this instead of killing it three ways to Sunday: Suing everyone (and ruining their PR, making sales of CD's go down), making artists give up their copyrights (which for indy artists is bad... or good, for laywers), and making crappy music on expensive CD's, which really should cost $5 instead of $25 or $30 a CD.
Do I really need Metalica belching out Ozzy Fudd on a Greatest Hits CD when all I want is Middle Earth doing "I'll Melt with You?" Or even Mike J when I want just Tubthumping?
Apple did the great experiment: Make individual songs availible, and cheap enough to pull. It worked. Now WalMart and Napster/Roxio is doing it.
The RIAA should be embracing this instead of killing it three ways to Sunday: Suing everyone (and ruining their PR, making sales of CD's go down), making artists give up their copyrights (which for indy artists is bad... or good, for laywers), and making crappy music on expensive CD's, which really should cost $5 instead of $25 or $30 a CD.
Do I really need Metalica belching out Ozzy Fudd on a Greatest Hits CD when all I want is Middle Earth doing "I'll Melt with You?" Or even Mike J when I want just Tubthumping?
Apple did the great experiment: Make individual songs availible, and cheap enough to pull. It worked. Now WalMart and Napster/Roxio is doing it.
