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Apple In Negotiations With Majors To Offer ‘Unlimited Download’ iPod Packages

By - Wednesday March 19th 2008

Apple is purportedly slowly and methodically wearing down the major labels’ negotiating price of an all-you-can-handle-but-for-a-premium smorgasbord download plan for your iPod and iPhone, according to a recent report by the Financial Times, and competitor eMusic is none too thrilled at present:

“They’re basically saying, ‘Let’s give a piece of every iPod sale to the record labels in exchange for bundling in all the music you can eat with every iPod’” said [CEO of competitor eMusic David] Pakman. “That’s classic Sherman Antitrust Act behavior. It’s called tying, and it’s where a company with a monopoly position in one market uses that monopoly position unfairly to compete in another.” (source)

Wah, wah. What do we think? Are you a subscriber to eMusic or Napster? I’ve tried both; personally, I say bring it on. Any Rhapsody users? Who uses what out there…(Limewire & Soulseek don’t count; Seeqpod users, holla)

» EMusic CEO Raises Antitrust Concerns About Apple’s Unlimited Music Plan (Wired)




What now?

One Response to “Apple In Negotiations With Majors To Offer ‘Unlimited Download’ iPod Packages”

  1. Posted by oakling 3/20/08 at 12:56 pm #

    I don’t see how his argument stands. iPods don’t have a monopoly, and neither do any of the record companies. I suppose if they could give us all you can eat music for a fee, they’d have a big advantage. But the real enemy here is the uber-greedy record companies that have been charging artificially high prices for years, yesno?


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