Record companys want to raise the price of music downloads
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Some leading music labels are in talks with online retailers to raise wholesale prices for digital music downloads in an attempt to capitalise on burgeoning demand for legal online music. The moves, which suggest the labels want a bigger slice of the fledgling market's spoils, has angered Steve Jobs, the Apple Computer chief executive behind the iTunes online music store.
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This is so typical. iTunes and Napster have finally stalled the amount of online privacy, more and more people are buying music online and that is no small task considering people used to get tracks for free!
But record companys refuse to learn from the past
. They were happy to charge far over the odds for CD's which helped fuel the amount of online privacy in the first place. They made sure that if people wanted one song they would have to buy a album (look how many 'Greatest Hits' albums leave out one or two of there biggest tracks to get people to buy more albums). Now they want to raise the price of online music downloads but continue to sue people who go and download music illegally.