[whydidnt]

Originally Posted by Rocco Augusto

You seem to be forgetting something very important. The music doesn't belong to these Internet radio stations. They are in turn making money selling another individuals or companies product. At the same time the music industry doesn't want Internet radio to take off and they have every right to charge what they want to prevent it from taking off, it is after all their product.

I think you are forgetting it's not the music industry setting these fees. It's the copyright royalty board, a government appointed commission that arbitrarily sets these fees.

If it WAS the music industry, there are also laws in this country against competing companies fixing prices to drive out competition. If any other group of competing businesses acted in the way you mention the DOJ would be all over them.

[whydidnt]

Originally Posted by Rocco Augusto

You seem to be forgetting something very important. The music doesn't belong to these Internet radio stations. They are in turn making money selling another individuals or companies product. At the same time the music industry doesn't want Internet radio to take off and they have every right to charge what they want to prevent it from taking off, it is after all their product.

I think you are forgetting it's not the music industry setting these fees. It's the copyright royalty board, a government appointed commission that arbitrarily sets these fees.

If it WAS the music industry, there are also laws in this country against competing companies fixing prices to drive out competition. If any other group of competing businesses acted in the way you mention the DOJ would be all over them.

[aristoBrat]

Originally Posted by Rocco Augusto

If iTunes shuts down it would only push more business to those other retailers while at the same time effectively killing the iPod. The iPod's success goes hand and hand with iTunes. No iTunes, no reason for people to continue buying iPods.

So long as virtually every one of those "other retailers" uses a download manager that automatically copies your DRM-free purchase from them into your iTunes library (if you use iTunes), I don't really see the iTunes Store shutting down as really affecting iPod sales.

I use iTunes as my music manager but pretty much only buy music from Amazon. You click the "Purchase Now" button on Amazon and the song is in your iTunes library seconds later. Other than using a web browser to browse/preview music (instead of the iTunes app), the work flow is exactly the same.

[Pony99CA]

The music publisher's royalty increase was denied. I guess Apple won't have to shut iTunes down.

Steve