http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060303-6306.html



In its early stages, but definitely one to watch. Could herald good things.

(forgive me for not reading it first, seriously busy) Does this have anything to do with the biggies' "request" to Apple to raise the price above 99 cents?

yeah, it's about collusion to fix the prices charged for songs.

I recall being relatively shocked at the record industry attempting to (more or less) tell apple how to sell songs over the internet.

RIAA, Ford, GM, the Brontosaurus.

all a result of their still-misguided notion that they should be able to capture every drop of revenue that their music generates.

God, you're reading the minutes of my internal noggin meeting during econ the other day, looking at graphs of consumer surplus. We were hashing out the practice of price discrimination - disney and cellphone companies being examples, and the way they could figure out the exact worth of something, then wait till the end and charge you for every cent of it, leaving you with 0 (neutral, neither bad nor good) and them with 100%.