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I love itunes because it makes it easier and faster to comply with copyright law than to violate it. If the record labels had been a bit smarter and done this in the very beginning, i think P2P and the like would have stayed a very small subculture instead of a dominant means of distribution.
It also collapses the argument about not enough money going to the artist. If I wrote a song and performed it and loaded it onto the the indie side of iTunes (through CD Baby or somewhere else), I'm making close to $.50 everytime someone grabs a tune. That starts to look alot like what any product manufacturer makes vs. retail cost.
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