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- Jimzip, on 10/12/2007, -3/+80Or he was defaulted to the Australian Music store, where all songs cost $1.69, then transferred back to the US store when he logged in..
Jimzip :D - mrDwarfish, on 10/12/2007, -3/+58oh my you saw iTunes AUS prices!!!!!
*sigh*
how is this news? - cubs2234, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40it's the australian page...check it out
- spikes, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30Just like the RIAA been stealing from the artists for over half a century?
- Pliep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Australia, australia, we love you, amen! This is the australian iTMS with aussie dollars.
Why are people seeing new Apple announcements in ANYTHING that seems odd but is perfectly normal?
It's like the 1950's UFO craze. KNOCK IT OFF!!!! - webguy2k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20well... I'm wondering if you accidentally were signed into Australia or Canada... also, I don't think Apple would do that, because then Yahoo, $1.09 for Non-DRM music sales would soar...
- Torxter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17as I posted on the flickr,
"No, it isn't a price confusion. It's most likely a glitch that iTunes switched you to the australian store when you wern't logged in. Checkit, australia's stores are all $1.69" - baron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Because you can get video's from the australia store.
Why ask when you obviously didn't even check? - Desolite, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17yeah jimzip is right. this is inaccurate (not the authors fault, but inaccurate none the less).
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+180.99¢? That's less than a penny!
- benwatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It's easy to prove that the screenshot is just of the Australia store. Do the search in the screenshot on the Australia store, order by relevance and the results are identical. Do it on the US store and the results are different, the US store doesn't even have the highlighted song for sale.
- qpid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It is a couple of days before WWDC so people are gnawing at the bit for any Apple News
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13that wouldn't make any sense considering yahoo offers unrestricted music for $1.09 (according to another digg article), i doubt they would raise prices
- abid786, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5By the way, the Canadian store's prices are also $0.99.
- bsane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm curious about the non-drm Yahoo music... I just checked their website and could only find their 'Music Unlimited', but that is _definatly_ DRMd.
- abid786, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I hate it when people try to be smart and put in the point before and the cent symbol after...
- spikes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Nope, which is why I tend to buy lots of indie music all the time. I know lots more of my money goes to where it matters most, the artists pockets.
- zacharychaos, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6@fac3less
thats not really his point. If most of the money goes to the record company, and you want to stick it to them, them the artist may be an innocent victim- but they are missing out on SO LITTLE money per song. If you download a song from bit torrent instead of iTunes, the artist is missing between 5~10 cents. I don't really think that justifies gouging me for music.
This industry needs to change. As long as they sue teenagers and grandmothers, I am not buying their music. Period. - weareglass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Let me guess, do you also abstain from voting because your vote 'doesn't count'? It's called aggregation. If you throw only one piece of trash on the ground, it doesn't have much impact, but if every man, woman and child threw a piece of paper on the ground, we'd all live in a garbage dump. Face it, small changes have effects. Artists' royalty checks are no exception. Some artists live in mansions, some survive off of their royalty checks. Just remember that.
- Quix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Um yeah, because Yahoo offered ONE SONG without DRM, and they charged $1.99 for it? And it was a Jessica Simpson song at that? Ugh. Yahoo is hardly blazing the trail for DRM-free music.
I'd love to see DRM-free, but it's going to be up to the record companies, not the Apples and Yahoos of the world.
And since we're shooting for DRM-free, can we shoot for lossless as well? 128 kbps encoding is much more offensive to me than DRM. - aylwin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5This is why I'm digging (not in the digg sense, but dig... ha) emusic.com more and more. It's subscription based but if you use your quote every month it works out to $0.25 per song and it's ~192kbps mp3s. Almost a no-brainer.
- MyLittlePony, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6C'mon people... it's a photo of the Australian music store. Songs have always been $1.69 there. 1.69 *Australian* dollars. So lame...
- *jooloop*, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, iTMS losses money on each song bought. The iPod is what carries iTMS.
- vprice509, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Music is free, just not at iTunes.
- DelMonte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"MSFT is about to flush Apple`s i-tunes down the i-crapper due to a fundamental change in how much the musicians get paid..."
Bwahahahahahahahahah! Are you serious? Do you really think MS would do anything to give artists more power?
Yeah right Microsoft is like Robin Hood for musicians! (sight...)
Sarcasm aside, tell me what audio format was used on those crippled root-kit CDs? WMA+DRM...
Microsoft and the RIAA are best friends, just look how more restrictive is WMA DRM compared to Apple's Fairplay.
MS and the RIAA had big plans:
1. Make WMA+DRM playable on the overwhelming majority of music player sold.
2. Discontinue the use of good old unprotected audio on CDs and replace them with ONLY WMA+DRM audio.
3. Strongly encourage or force play-for-sure licensees to remove MP3 support (to fight piracy).
4. Provide MP3 to WMA converters for those who protest.
5. Try to plug any remaining holes. People cracking the DRM system will give them a justification to use the TPM chip.
6. Outlaw 44khz digital recorders to anyone except those who get a government license (trying to plug the analog hole).
"Unfortunately" this scenario cannot happen, because of Apple's competition vs. the monopoly OS default formats.
If MS was to do anything more than Apple for music artists, it would be because they are forced to play nice because there's competition from Apple. - dharcha1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3oh by the way, this is the 3rd story in a row on the first page of the apple section that has been reported as possibly inaccurate. i think people should start checking out what they submit before really submitting it. the last thing we need right now are rumors about WWDC. no offense to cassvegas, this story was completely by accident.
- osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If I'm paying for music it's at a show or used promos on Amazon.
I am done with the record companies, what vampires!
(iTunes is free at this time though ;) - Tweekster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It would be funny if they did, then of course Itunes would immediately go out of business (it would)
Then it just shows congress that the media companies have a viable plan to sell music, they are just too greedy. - panique, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6WWDC is a Developer Conference. They will not waste the time of all the developers, who paid a small fortune to attend, by having presentations that are consumer-oriented.
- dharcha1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2itunes is the best digital jukebox on the market. the end.
maybe a piece of ***** like you, furmanvt, should not be allowed to comment on stories on the home page. - Subtonic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4The argument for not buying a CD because of the short-term issue of an artist only getting a few pennies per track is not strong. It completely overlooks anything involving the artist contracts, such as the number of albums they need to sell before they start getting real payouts from their record label.
By not buying a CD you DO end up hurting the artist in the long run by putting them in more debt to the record company than they would've been if they sold more albums.
And to most people it's easy to justify never buying CDs from major label "fatcats." That's your choice...but what about the indie labels? Should they get the shaft from this blanket policy too? Of course not. - microdude431, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2lol noobs
- Twango, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I keep seeing "oh the awful RIAA" on sites loaded with techies, like Digg and Slashdot.
Yeah, the RIAA sux. So ... tech people, why not think up a way to *help* artists make a lot more? Like an open-source music serving package?
This site is on the right track: http://members.amie.st/splash.php - zzbigalzz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3screw low quality, DRM infected trash from itunes!
p2p forever - cduquette, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I hope there isn't an increase. It's one thing to pay .99 for a piece of music containing DRM (as non-restrictive as it currently is), but at 1.69 per song it's cheaper to buy the whole ablum in the long run...
- robwolf100, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7Maybe they will follow in Yahoo's foot steps and get rid of DRM while raising the price. For all of those out there who swearer by I tunes this could be a good thing.
Down with DRM. If I buy it, I should be able to do what ever I want to it. - spikes, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Buying CD's only makes the record industry fatcats fatter. You're not helping the artists at all.
- ripcord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You had me until you said "p2p forever". So apparently your complaint isn't that the tracks include DRM, it's that you're not getting them for free...?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1More proof that Digg isn't perfect. Rose worth only $59 million now?
LOL - tuxuser, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1thats isn't news
- rebblescum, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I agree with Desolite, although it may not have been the poster's fault, at least he/she could have confirmed things before posting - a quick scroll to the bottom of the home page of the store would have confirmed it.
- indypunkone, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Can we burry this story already.
- Butros, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Supporting Russia is a noble cause imho. They gave up communism to try democracy, and aren't seeing the benefits yet. Throw them a fricking bone!
- riddlebox, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I'm not saying that you shouldn't buy music. Because I spend a lot of my money on music. I don't buy from iTunes because I don't support what they do. They are killing off all the independent records stores. I don't use my ***** iPod to listen to music in my car, nor do I burn CD's. I can't stand not having orginal artwork, and the quality of the CD itself. So if someone wants to stand up and say that since I don't purchase their song from iTunes where they are getting a SMALL fraction, can just eat a dick, because most people who use itunes don't buy CD's. They buy songs. I pay back the label and the artist buy buying their artwork, their casing, and their CD. THE WHOLE CD. I listen to all sorts of "metal" music. People that do it for music, but more for love of what its about, and being true to everyone else giving 110%. Second, I do believe that my contribution to littering doesn't mean much because I am the majority. I pay for the land just as much as you so therefore I can treat it how I want:)
- lennon2600, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Aussies are awesome. That's all I've got to say. Aussies are awesome.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2MSFT is about to flush Apple`s i-tunes down the i-crapper due to a fundamental change in how much the musicians get paid...Right now Jobs and the Labels get most of the money.
- leffunov, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5If they did raise the price I would stop buying from them without hesitating a second
- furmanvt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Itunes is honestly one of the clumsiest/sluggish programs around. No story about this piece of ***** program should be on the home page.
- furmanvt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Can we burry this story already. It obvious he is showing screen shots of the australia site.!!
- finalplayer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0American iTunes users normally pay 99 dollar cent each song, while Europeans pay 99 euro cent. That's fair, you would say at first sight, but the value of 1 euro is a bit higher, so we pay 25% more for each song :( So don't matter that price increase, think at your friends from over the sea. ;)
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