Techdirt:Music Business Blames Apple Again

Techdirt:Music Business Blames Apple Again: "Major record labels have been annoyed with Apple for the way it prices music in the iTunes store, but with its power in the market, there's not a lot they can do. They will, however, continue to point the finger, now blaming Apple for flat download sales, saying its insistence on an across-the-board price of 99 cents per song is stunting growth. Other 'critics' -- or rather a single critic, with BusinessWeek quoting the CEO of Apple rival Napster -- cite Apple's copy-protection technology and its refusal to let anybody else use it, which locks competing services out of iPods. What's slightly amusing is that, again, it was the big record labels' obsession with copy protection that gave Apple all this power. The labels act like there's nothing they can do if Apple tells them no, other than pull their music from iTunes, which they won't do given its role as market leader. There is something they can do -- open up their own store, and sell unrestricted MP3 files at whatever price they want. iPods, and and pretty much any other digital music player, can play those files. The labels' insistence on trying to control what people can do with the music they buy has gotten them into this mess, and it will take a reversal of that position to get them out."

Hey listen up music industry, instead of trying every way of figuring out how to make it nearly impossible to download music people want and take it with them easily, of wait you are not concentrating on that. You guys are making people not like the music industry. Not to mention to attack a service that has made people want to download music legally. Get over it and figure out a way to get as much music available to the people as possible. If that means signing on to Itunes and working with them, at least you will be getting something for the song, instead of losing money on all the songs. Plus you don't have to print cd's and waste the 12 cents it cost you. Oh wait that is how you rip people off.

Just because an outside company, in this case Apple, is able to outsmart you and do what you were unable and unwilling to do, and they did it well in fact, you should not be trying to blame them for your stupidity and lack of wisdom.