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Who gets the money?
So EMI and Apple are offering DRM-free songs on iTunes for the higher price of $1.29, an increase of over 30%. To entice people to buy albums full of songs they don't want the price of a full album will only be $9.99. Of course if you only want the two or three decent songs on the album then you can save yourself a lot of money, but you will be contributing to the decline of the record companies' business model.
Now I could point out that if I buy the CD I get DRM-free music which I can rip to iTunes. But to get a single song I have to pay more to get the DRM-free version.
I guess what I really want to know, since the record companies so often speak of the need to protect the artists, will they be automatically increasing artist royalty payments by 30%? Or will they just be increasing legal fees for litigation?
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