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Posted by Derek Janssen on 03/17/06 17:13
"Someday, we'll all download movies on our iPod", right?--
Well, er....
[IMDb, 3/16]
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'High School Musical': The Controversy
An announcement by Apple Computer that it will make the Disney movie
High School Musical available for downloading from its iTunes Music
Store for $9.99 has generated angry reaction from several users of the
site. In the online store's user-review section, writers observed that
the price for the download was roughly the same as the price for a
similar DVD. "Talk about a rip-off," one user wrote. "... You're
basically paying for a DVD without getting the DVD extras or quality."
Another blogger on the Endgadget.com site commented that "this seems
like another pricing experiment from Apple" and complained that users
would by "paying $9.99 for a low-res copy of a movie of the week that
will probably show up in Blockbuster's remainder bin in a month." Yet
another blogger asked, "Is this some kind of sick joke?"
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Derek Janssen (and, scratch another studio pipe dream down the tubes)
ejanss@comcast.net
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