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It’s pretty easy to verify that apple paid the credit card feeds from their cut, brief googling reveals many articles like this one: https://nypost.com/2004/05/07/apple-tunes-up-price-of-hits-may-jump-to-1-25-on-itunes/ https://nypost.com/2004/05/07/apple-tunes-up-price-of-hits-m...