Music Industry Still Not Thrilled With iTunes Control

Music Industry Still Not Thrilled With iTunes Control

From Chris Foresman, Contributing Writer For Ars Technica:

“Despite what seemed like a happy arrangement between Apple and record labels over iTunes pricing and DRM, “the relationship remains as tense and antagonistic as ever” according to a report from the New York Times.

During Phil Schiller’s keynote at the 2009 Macworld Expo, he announced that Apple has finally gotten record labels to agree to migrate all music to the DRM-free iTunes Plus format. In addition, music could now be downloaded from iTunes over a cell connection directly to the iPhone itself. For Apple’s part, it agreed to move to a variable pricing structure for tracks, adding $1.29 and $0.69 price points to the 99 cents it had been charging for tracks for the past six years.” Continue Reading (Click Here)

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