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This is especially strange when you stop to think that Apple's profits alone are around double the total revenue of all RIAA members. It's hard to imagine that
by Homunculiheaded 15y ago
This is especially strange when you stop to think that Apple's profits alone are around double the total revenue of all RIAA members. It's hard to imagine that the RIAA is the one that gets to bully apple around.
- cowkingdeluxe 15y agoA lot of the MPAA members also own a majority of the news stations and newspapers. They sway voters a lot more than Apple ever could.
- untog 15y agoHas Apple actually clarified their position on SOPA?
- tlb 15y agoApple makes some of that money from works more than 25 years old, so it's not necessarily in their interest.
- philwelch 15y agoHm, really? 25 years ago was 1987. I'm sure if Apple lost the copyright to 1987-era NeXTStep, virtually all of Mac OS X would still be locked down. There's scarcely anything else they still make money from, in copyright terms. Unless you mean iTunes revenue, but that's a break-even for devices anyway, and I'm not sure their profits would be hurt that much by music from before 1987 going into the public domain. In fact, it might help because there's a lot of movie and even TV content pre-1987 they'd suddenly be able to offer without one bit of negotiation.
- chc 15y agoWith iTunes, Apple is one of the media companies' best friends in Silicon Valley. I don't think either of those parties is really interested in attacking the other.
- technoslut 15y agoIf that is the case those companies don't know it. The labels hate Apple even though they gave them a business model to survive in the digital age. The studios think the same will happen to them (it will eventually) and they're afraid of Apple and every other tech giant.