All Posts Tagged With: "iTunes"

PRESS RELEASE
Overall consumer music acquisition increased by 6 percent in 2007, but average annual per-capita music spending fell by 10 percent
PORT WASHINGTON, NEW YORK, February 26, 2008 — According to The NPD Group, a leading provider of consumer and retail information, the amount of music that consumers acquired in the U.S. increased by 6 percent [...]

Universal, Warner Bros. and Sony BMG have been holding back DRM-free license approval from iTunes while extending that approval to Amazon.com and some other startups. Only EMI has offered its music in DRM-free, MP3 format to both vendors. This marketplace inequality appears to be a punitive measure against Apple, for refusing to agree to label [...]