Friday, April 15, 2005

Music Industry Gets Some of the Own Medicine -- 8:15 am CST, Update by The Master

How delicious is this: Music moguls trumped by Steve Jobs indicates that the music biz is upset that Apple and iTunes owns 70% of their market in digital land, and wants to control-freak it. I just love it. These people have been screwing the consumer for 30 years and now they're upset that someone else controls their pricing. That's just gotta suck for them. They might not be able to own a new Ferrari for every minute of the day now. Wah.

The only flipside on this one that I see is that Jobs won't allow anyone else into his music player or digital music format either. He could fix that by allowing others to use his Fairplay system to encode, and by porting iTunes to Linux. Both of these have a nil chance of happening, but here's to hoping.

A.T. Hun comments: An oppressive monopoly being one-upped by another oppressive monopoly--isn't irony just delicious? Once again, my favorite word comes to mind: schadenfreude.

News for 04/15/2005

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