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800 lb gorillas...
... like Apple in (legal) music downloads are noticed.
True, a company like WalMart can afford to undercut Apple, at least for a while. And remember when Real offered $0.49 per download as an introductory offer?

But if an Apple competitor had variable retail prices while Apple remained at $0.99 per song, the competitor would be harmed for charging more for a popular song.
Not easy getting customers away from Apple, which had 70% of the market last I heard, and finding that every popular song cost less on Apple would end hope.

This is not collusion; it's normal behavior with a strong industry leader.

The point of my post is that the content companies are already implementing variable pricing to the retailers. And the retailers cannot pass the price differences to customers because Apple stands in the way.

You're right; the companies may approve the current fixed rate system. But even if they wanted to change, and financial pressures from the content companies make such an intent reasonable, they still could not.
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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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