bandwidth surcharge depending on resolution of iTMS media

[Scott Anguish]

On Apr 10, 2007, at 12:20 AM, Robert La Ferla wrote:

>
> On Apr 9, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>
>>
>> <http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/09/1412223&from=rss>
>>
>> someone's comment:
>>
>> I think this would be the fair thing to do because the industry has  
>> always harped on how consumers are just licensing content, not  
>> actually purchasing an "ownable" product. Therefore consumers  
>> should NEVER have to re-license the same content again and again  
>> just to have it available in a different format.
>
> That is reasonable but what the industry says is just rhetoric.   
> It's not about being fair.  It's about profit always.  No company  
> wants to sell once.  They want to keep selling for higher prices to  
> more people and with lower costs again and again...  Thay can't  
> always do this and you can't blame them for trying but they do take  
> it to an extreme sometimes.
>

	although if that were true, then Apple wouldn't be allowing you to  
upgrade to the higher quality EMI tracks for 30 cents.  Nor completing  
your album by giving you a credit for pre-purchased tracks.

	mind you, I have no idea what Kev was trying to say with that quote  
(he agrees, or not)