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Variable pricing already exists.
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Currently, labels charge a variety of wholesale prices that can range upward of 75 cents per track, industry sources have said. However, it's the retailer, such as Apple, Walmart.com, or RealNetworks, that decides what price individual consumers will pay.

Apple's iPod profits allow the company to retain the $0.99 fixed price, and competitors have to follow Apple's lead.

But the RIAA companies can apparently fine the retailers for non-compliance by making some songs unprofitable to sell, or at least substantially reduce profits.


And the companies do not have to collude in a legally identifiable manner. When there are few suppliers, they can study each other's prces and respond quickly.

That's not illegal, but it's a good sign of the need for regulation, if some legislature were more concerned about consumers than the hardships of life for the content companies.
Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 01/04/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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For those  cashaww | 01/04/06
But also  GMTobias | 01/04/06
Eliot Spitzer Also Got Them on PAYOLA  Edward Meyers | 01/04/06
Good point  GMTobias | 01/04/06
DMCA is the cause of hollystupids woes.  cyber-shoplifter | 01/04/06
Copyright is not the problem  techboy_z | 01/04/06
Term of copyright is a major issue  tic swayback | 01/04/06
Our government can't even get the mail to my front door..  cyber-shoplifter | 01/04/06
Spitzer rocks  tic swayback | 01/04/06
My 1st tic of the New Year....  cyber-shoplifter | 01/04/06
Variable pricing already exists.  Anton Philidor | 01/04/06
Not sure about this...  techboy_z | 01/04/06
800 lb gorillas...  Anton Philidor | 01/04/06
Variable pricing - how novel  ishtar_z | 01/04/06
I LOVE allofmp3 & mp3search.ru  cyber-shoplifter | 01/04/06
I would pick variable price  GreatInca | 01/04/06
hollystupid should price from $0.00 to 50.00 cents MAX  cyber-shoplifter | 01/04/06
hollystupid should price from $0.00 to .50 cents MAX  cyber-shoplifter | 01/04/06
That's the problem  tic swayback | 01/04/06
at $2.99 a song the RIAA will have even more folks to sue..  cyber-shoplifter | 01/04/06
The value of a song  tic swayback | 01/04/06
"at least 99 cents"?  Anton Philidor | 01/04/06
lossless audio compression  cyber-shoplifter | 01/04/06
Just curious; which codec?  Anton Philidor | 01/04/06
Do you really believe that  tic swayback | 01/04/06
Less than $0.99.  Anton Philidor | 01/04/06
Silly Anton  tic swayback | 01/04/06
Why shouldn't the RIAA companies tell the truth...  Anton Philidor | 01/04/06
Why should we believe them now?  tic swayback | 01/05/06
$0.00 to $1.00 sounds like variable pricing to me?  cyber-shoplifter | 01/04/06
It ain't gonna be .01 to 1.00.  BitTwiddler | 01/04/06
RECORD LABELS JERKS  Jason Jones_z | 01/04/06

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