More on Apple iTunes Price Changes

It’s not secret that the record labels have long been upset with Apple’s insistence on pricing songs at $0.99 across the board; Apple’s massive market share meant that this was basically the market price, despite the DRM factor limiting purchases to Apple iPods. Now details are emerging that the latest changes to Apple’s music pricing structure seem to be motivated by better pleasing the music companies, who, rather than attempt to create a competitive service have ceded the market to Apple even further by allowing them to remove copy protection in exchange for hiking the prices on popular songs.

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