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Warner Music "price fixing king" Bronfman fires back at Jobs

Mon, 09/26/2005 - 06:56 — charlie.collins

Recently Steve Jobs called the recording industry greedy, and he was right on (especially with the combating piracy argument, make songs CHEAPER, less piracy, we have a winner!) - and now Warner Music CEO Edward Bronfman Jr. has fired back saying variable pricing is a must and that prices, while variable, should never be lower than $0.99. (Variable as long as its higher, that kind of variable you see.)

Now if the record industry did not have a long history of screwing artists and customers, with scams like payola, complicated as hell compensation models for artists where record companies control the numbers and PRICE FIXING, maybe we could take them seriously.

Yet at this point this is just ludicrous. Bronfman was a chief actor in the previous price fixing collusion and now he calls for "variable" pricing on iTunes. Jackass.

The entire record industry is screwed because they still DONT GET IT.

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Mon, 09/26/2005 - 14:43 — surfbass_not_logged_in (not verified)

RE: Warner Music \

production and...(?)

Mon, 09/26/2005 - 14:58 — atrox (not verified)

RE: Warner Music "price fixing king" Bronfman fires back at Jobs

"production and" removed.

I was in the middle of that thought and got distracted by some actual work issues this AM (damn work).

I was going to expound on what Roger McGuinn said recently on TWiT and that is that basically artists no longer need record companies for production, which they used to, it doesnt cost $1000 bucks a day or more any longer to record digital audio, record companies are marketing machines and thats IT. They should get paid a marketing fee, which should not be the majority of the deal, and they should be happy about it. The artists should get more of the money.

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