Apple threatens to remove music if bands don’t agree to new royalty policy

Re:Apple threatens to remove music if bands don’t agree to n... by gress on Thursday June 18, 2015 @11:22AM (#9739110)

Headline is false. Apple will remove bands from iTunes if they don't offer a free trial.

As for this being a 'threat'. It's clearly not - it's a mutual disagreement. The statement could just as easily be 'some bands abandon iTunes because they don't want to give free trials'

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Re:Apple threatens to remove music if bands don’t agree to n... by ta92929 on Thursday June 18, 2015 @11:34AM (#9739220)

So, Apple wants to promote its new streaming service using musicians' music for free, and threatens to to remove them from a different platform, iTunes, if they don't comply. Still pretty bullshit.

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Re:Apple threatens to remove music if bands don’t agree to n... by kedean on Thursday June 18, 2015 @11:37AM (#9739255)

Yeah, seems like pretty basic blackmail to me.

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Re:Apple threatens to remove music if bands don’t agree to n... by gress on Friday June 19, 2015 @10:45AM (#9745093)

False. iTunes is not a different platform. Companies are not forced to keep their services the same forever.

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Re:Apple threatens to remove music if bands don’t agree to n... by dreamfactory2 on Thursday June 18, 2015 @12:11PM (#9739547)

The story is that they are leveraging their position as a platform to enforce new terms. This is the kind of sharp practise people complained about with 'the big 5' record labels using their collective monopoly over distribution and can be seen as a form of bait and switch.

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Re:Apple threatens to remove music if bands don’t agree to n... by gress on Friday June 19, 2015 @11:16AM (#9745344)

Except that there is vigorous competition in this market. Amazon and Google, Spotify, RDIO are all hailed as innovating on how we buy music. Apple is simply updating its service to respond to consumer demand.

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