Comments on: Apple wants 30 cents per song to upgrade your iTunes library

By: Personal information in iTunes files should prevent mass piracy

Personal information in iTunes files should prevent mass piracy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:00:10 +0000

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By: RSS Digest - #10 - Back to more normal

RSS Digest - #10 - Back to more normal — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:42:08 +0000

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By: UK music industry owes an awful lot to digital downloads

UK music industry owes an awful lot to digital downloads — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:51:35 +0000

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By: rev_otto

rev_otto — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:58:56 +0000

I love looking at my itunes account at all the music I purchased due to relatives thinking I needed giftcards. And I REALLY love when I realize the ipod they were stored on is stolen after I backed up a failed drive and they won’t let me download them again. Can I pay 30 cents a song to get my music back?

By: McLovin

McLovin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:37:24 +0000

No but you di make it sound as if Apple is doing something underhanded and predatory…

By: Nicholas Deleon

Nicholas Deleon — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:53:44 +0000

I don’t think I said Apple is pocketing the full 30 cents per song, merely that Apple “wants” that amount for services rendered. How that 30 cents is divvied up between however many parties isn’t public information.

By: jeffoca

jeffoca — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:22:24 +0000

I totally agree. Apple is not pocketing the full $0.30 – they are a reseller of music and the labels will always get their contractual share. This is how business works.

By: McLovin

McLovin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:11:56 +0000

idiots. Here is why this is happening.

1 year ago you buy Blue Oyster Cults “Godzilla” to play at your wedding. You pay 99 cents for it because it has DRM. Apple for arguments sake pays 79 cents for the song from the Distributor. Now they come out with the high bitrate, DRM free version for $1.29. Apple probably paid 99 cents for that track from the distributor. So you sees they are two separate SKU’s in Apple’s system for the same song, one with DRM one without, with two different costs. When you upgrade they are not “stripping” the DRM from the song, they are actually giving you the second SKU at a discounted rate (below cost it would seem, but you’re a good customer so it’s ok) So they can’t just give it away, they had to pay for it to get it from the distributor (I hope you don’t think that Apple has a team of monkey’s ripping songs off of CD’s 24 hours a day 7 days a week and all they have to do is just send you the new DRM-free song, ’cause, you know it’s just sitting there.)

So please try and understand the business model before you complain about how you’re getting screwed by this big greedy corporation that you continue to buy products from….

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:55:34 +0000

Once again, those who actually play by the rules and do the right thing get screwed.

White-collar fraud and corporate embezzlement are looking better and better every day.

By: Steve Jabs

Steve Jabs — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:43:13 +0000

Or, now that you have paid for them, just go download them. You do technically own the music.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:38:58 +0000

I will upgrade your library to 192 kbps DRM Free MP3s for only 25 cents each

Minimum order of 100000 songs

By: Jeremy Jones

Jeremy Jones — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:09:40 +0000

Right now mine is $74.10 to upgrade 250 songs. I have another 400 tracks that have DRM that aren’t upgradable yet. I think it’s a rip off that I have to pay an additional 30 cents for tracks I already paid for. I’m still deciding on what I should do. I would really love to unchain my music from iTunes. Not sure if it’s worth the price.