Boycott Music Companies that leave iTunes

Apple and iTunes has revolutionized the music business, and billions of paid songs later, we can see that the consumer has shown that they want this kind of music delivery. The record and TV companies however, want to regain full control so they can decide what you the consumer will hear or see, and what you must pay for it, which will of course be much higher.

The iTunes customer base is now big enough and influential enough to resist this effort.

If Universal wants to withdraw their music from iTunes, ok go ahead. We will however reciprocate and refuse to purchase your content. Lets see who blinks first.

naftalim said:

Apple and iTunes has revolutionized the music business, and billions of paid songs later, we can see that the consumer has shown that they want this kind of music delivery. The record and TV companies however, want to regain full control so they can decide what you the consumer will hear or see, and what you must pay for it, which will of course be much higher.

The iTunes customer base is now big enough and influential enough to resist this effort.

If Universal wants to withdraw their music from iTunes, ok go ahead. We will however reciprocate and refuse to purchase your content. Lets see who blinks first.

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I have no choice but to boycott them if they withdraw from their iTunes contract. If they aren't in iTunes then I can't buy them.

Boycott Universal for business strategy!!!!

Eric559 said:

I have no choice but to boycott them if they withdraw from their iTunes contract. If they aren't in iTunes then I can't buy them.

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You make a good point.

Eric559 said:

I have no choice but to boycott them if they withdraw from their iTunes contract. If they aren't in iTunes then I can't buy them.

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I am the same way... I only am able to purchase music that is on iTunes.

I won't boycott. I'll buy the music I want to buy, but I'll just buy the CD.

Change will actually occur when the artists begin boycotting record companies. The various experiments in selling music by artists with no contract indicate that, and some of them work. Record companies will gradually become less relevant if this takes off.

Eric559 said:

I have no choice but to boycott them if they withdraw from their iTunes contract. If they aren't in iTunes then I can't buy them.

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Absolutely my pov too. I certainly won't buy from any other source.

We should just boycott music. It's all rediculously expensive if you think about it...except for the free kind.

Shoot, I'm so old school, I still want LP's to play on my turntable.

Dillinger-63 said:

Shoot, I'm so old school, I still want LP's to play on my turntable.

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Now those are expensive. Singles run like $5. Although, there's usually a clean, an explicit, an acapella, and an instrumental.

Monopolies are not a good thing, and frankly it makes no difference if that monopoly is controlled by Sony, Universal, Microsoft or Apple.

OK, so you might have a preference, but the issue with iTunes is this. Your content will only ever play on Apple hardware/software. I have vinyls from the 1970's I still play - in 30 years time, will I still be able to play Apparat stored on my AAC files in 2035?

I am really glad Apple is pushing towards DRM free AACs, because these should be more flexible in terms of the hardware they'll play on. But I don't want Apple to control the content industry any more than any other single company. I suppose at least iTunes is available on OS X as well as Windows, unlike WMA files. But Amazon MP3s will play on any OS, even Linux.

Village Idiot said:

Now those are expensive. Singles run like $5. Although, there's usually a clean, an explicit, an acapella, and an instrumental.

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I still have all the LP's I've had since my 70's high school days so I really don't plan on buying any. (Beatles, Rolling Stones, Peter and Gordon, Roy Orbison. etc...) In fact I have an original 45 (never played) of The Beatles, "She Loves You" - flip side "I'll Get You" on the Swan white label in the Beatles picture sleeve that is locked away in my safe.

Why would I boycott companies that leave itunes? I'm more likely to boycott itunes (actually I do, I've never bought anything off itunes) because: the tracks are low quality, and because they will only play on apple hardware. I really don't see the point in buying off itunes when I can just buy the cd or download individual tracks from another online shop, where the tracks are not DRM restricted, and are at near-cd quality.

To those people who say they are not able to buy from anywhere other than itunes - I'm genuinely curious...what is the reason?

Go to the library, its free.

distance from music stores and do not like using credit cards for music because its to easy to spend more then you would like to.

How do you pay for music off itunes? (seeing as how I've never used it )

Is there like a pay-as-you-go option, or do they take money directly from your checking account? That would be pretty convenient if there's something like that.

Brandon said:

Is there like a pay-as-you-go option, or do they take money directly from your checking account? That would be pretty convenient if there's something like that.

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There are many ways to buy music off of iTunes. You can either use a pre-paid card you can purchase at many stores or you can use a debit or credit card for your purchases.

naftalim said:

The record and TV companies however, want to regain full control so they can decide what you the consumer will hear or see, and what you must pay for it, which will of course be much higher.

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I find the opposite to be true. When iTunes started selling DRM-free music, they sold it at a premium. However, other big sellers, like Amazon, were putting DRM-free content on the market for the same .99 price, which forced Apple to do the same. It's just like someone else said, no kind of monopoly is good for the consumer.

Eric559 said:

I have no choice but to boycott them if they withdraw from their iTunes contract. If they aren't in iTunes then I can't buy them.

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I don't get this comment. I use iTunes and buy music from Amazon, and it works fine. In fact, the music I buy from Amazon is automatically added to my iTunes music. With one-click purchasing, it as easy as buying from iTunes. Plus the added bonus of all the music being DRM-free and not having any "album only" tracks which can keep you from buying one song you want.