Legal Downloads - Even Apple Get Ripped Off
The few visitors I get will, by now, know my dislike of current legal download providers, with the exception of the ace Russian AllofMP3.com, because you pay over the odds for crippled music files. Well, it turns out that Apple, owner of the biggest, iTunes - they're not exactly raking it in from them either. The lion's share goes, surprise surprise, to the record companies providing the back catalogue.
The Independent has discovered that, for each 99 cent download from iTunes in the US, Apple get 4 cents, whereas the record label takes at least 62 cents and the publisher (which more often than not is ALSO the record label) gets 8 cents.
This proves a couple of things I had suspected. Firstly, the cost of the shop infrastructure isn't all that expensive - it couldn't be on a 4% commission. And secondly, record labels are ripping us all off - taking a bigger slice of the money coming in, but without having to pay for any physical manufacturing or distribution. Scum bags!
Interesting article. Give it a read.
2 Comments:
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Potato cannons are okay but so last year. Try SpudTech for all your needs.
The coolest projectile launcher is the Floating Arm Trebuchet. The Mangonel's pretty cool as well, but less appealing to physics boys like me =)
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