<![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract - Gizmodo Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract - Gizmodo Comments]]> http://gizmodo.com Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:28:13 EDT Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:28:13 EDT http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php#c1782158 The music industry is in trouble. Nobody cares that they're not making as much money because they still make a lot of money. As consumers we care about a few things. Gettng a quality product and getting it cheap. For a number of years cheap has meant free and quality was the best bitrate you could download. This is what the record labels still don't get. DRM has ruined the whole digital music experience. Why deal with incompatible DRM when we as consumers can just download it for free. DRM free music is a big step. A step they need to take.

zair

]]> 4:274111:c1782158 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:28:13 EDT <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php#c1781176 Yeah, this will last... until Jobs calls his pal Bono.

ComicDork

]]> 4:274111:c1781176 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:58:05 EDT <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php#c1779546 ...and just where do they think they're going?
Down the block and around the corner to sulk under a bush and suck their thumb until Dad comes to find them??--Please...

jetdillo

]]> 4:274111:c1779546 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:08:26 EDT <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php#c1779059 I don't see anything wrong with this. A shorter contract allows more flexibility in the market to respond to changing distribution models. I think as soon as there's widespread support in players for subsription services, that will be the way people go. I'd love for Apple themselves to offer this, since they have such a nice library already.

Promethean

]]> 4:274111:c1779059 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:03:14 EDT <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php#c1778540 Someone's got to get rid of the execs that run these conglomerates. They're old, fat and stupid.

marovada
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marovada

]]> 4:274111:c1778540 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:03:25 EDT <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php#c1778282 I'm rather curious as to how this came across as negative to Apple. We are talking about the third largest music distributor. The RIAA and it's brethren are in Apple's pocket. It's laughable to suggest this is somehow bad news for Apple Inc. Universal/Island Records/Whatever the hell other aliases/Buyouts is not exactly putting out quality material these days anyway, and it doesn't take a genius to realize you don't piss off one of your main distributors when your product is already failing.

dvnprcsn

]]> 4:274111:c1778282 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:13:46 EDT <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php#c1778149 @Geraldo:

i couldnt agree with you more. not every album has great songs

foofighter28

]]> 4:274111:c1778149 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:21:53 EDT <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php#c1778148 Never heard of those bands/artists, and since I listen to metal most of my music is not even available on ITunes.

Dark13

]]> 4:274111:c1778148 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:21:27 EDT <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php#c1778133 I wish I cared what a major label did - largest label or not, but I seriously don't care. iTunes has allowed me buy more one-off music / videos that I otherwise wouldn't have bought. Bottom line is that I won't buy a CD unless I really like a lot of the tracks on the CD, but I'll definitely buy one or two tracks on iTunes if I can get it piecemeal.

Love my iPhone, detest AT&T
Love music, detest the big labels...

Geraldo

]]> 4:274111:c1778133 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:14:31 EDT <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php#c1778076 Until these fools (the labels not iJobs and iCompany) figure this game out, I'm sticking with my tried and true method: Buy the CD, Rip it, Tag it, throw in an iPod with baby and me...

Sorry, long night getting the Spawnling to sleep...

Point being... with a CD you get to make your own DRM-free tracks (woohoo!) in whatever format you want that can be shared on just about any device with an mp3 decoder and you have a nice backup copy.

And before anyone starts mewling about "oooh, ripping takes so much time..." I'm 2/3rds the way through a 1200 CD collection and it's only taken me 6 years... okay, not the best track record... but I have ripped ~1/3rd of said collection in less than a week.

Loves my 80gb iPod... Loves IT!

nocte, nocte,
Levendis47

Levendis47

]]> 4:274111:c1778076 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:46:34 EDT <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php#c1778045 actually emusic is a subscription base with a set amount downloads a month, my plan equals about 30 cents a song, i dont think you can find anything on itunes that cheap, anyways it still drm free regardless ,and most major labels suck anyway, itunes is great for things not found on emusic, which is not too much for me

blakebell

]]> 4:274111:c1778045 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:31:55 EDT <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php#c1778020 emusic is only DRM free because it has no major labels on it, and only some stuff on emusic is cheaper than itunes (some stuff is actually more expensive, and I have been able to find some groups on iTunes who charge 7 dollars or less for a full album from the indie labels on iTunes.

Falconfire

]]> 4:274111:c1778020 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:24:00 EDT <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php#c1778005 just another example of how the music industry has lost touch with their customers, this is why i use emusic, drm free and cheaper than itunes

blakebell

]]> 4:274111:c1778005 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:20:12 EDT <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php#c1777904 So how long till we get some news that doesnt have the words Iphone or Apple. Maybe something about the Commodore 64 I'm still using!

TRASHMAN

]]> 4:274111:c1777904 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:43:04 EDT <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php#c1777876 Ha!

This is trouble for no one except Universal. Can't wait to see what happens to their stock on Monday.

mattjumbo

]]> 4:274111:c1777876 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:34:53 EDT <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php#c1777843 Anyone can flex:

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Slappy McSlapp

]]> 4:274111:c1777843 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:27:35 EDT <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php#c1777794 ooooo, take that third largest music retailer in the US, and growing.

These music companies are idiots sometimes.

bobvilla

]]> 4:274111:c1777794 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:14:12 EDT <![CDATA[Universal Flexes Muscles, Not Renewing Long Term iTunes Music Contract]]> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/universal-flexes-muscles-not-renewing-long-term-itunes-music-contract-274111.php#c1777789 universal really likes to screw themselves, first just doing HDDVD and now this??? Did they not see that Apple is the 3 biggest online music retailer?? *sigh*

foofighter28

]]> 4:274111:c1777789 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:12:55 EDT