…charge customers for the 30 second clips they listen to on iTunes!
The music industry seems to have found another way to screw online retailers as well as anger pretty much anyone who listens to music, by wanting to charge royalty fees every time a user listens to a 30 second music clip. They worked out that scraping every last penny they can from online retailers like iTunes will benefit them in the longrun. This is obviously out of jealousy, as iTunes found a way to make money out of selling music online and all the music industry can do is complain about all the money they’re apparently losing!
They are even looking to receive royalties from movies and television shows that are downloaded, even though they already receive royalties from the production company for the use of the music in the show or movie.
What exactly does the music industry think this will do?? There’s no way iTunes is going to take this cost on without charging it onto the customer in one way or another. They are basically asking their customers to pay for their advertising. Soon we’ll get McDonalds calling our homes to collect money for their next campaign.
Hmm, does anyone else think that this is going to make people want to download music illegally even more! I think this article in Gizmodo sums it up perfectly. “Dear music industry: go f**k yourself”
Oh, and I’ve also worked out how to save the movie industry from pirates; charge people to watch trailers!
> Musicians: iTunes Not Paying Fair Share
> GREED: Music Industry Wants Royalties on 30-Second Previews and TV Downloads
> I’m sorry, but we have to ban music. That’s just the way it is.
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