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Wal-Mart, iTunes moves worry music industry Tiered pricing and 99-cent tracks likely to cut record-company revenues Vito Pilieci, Canwest News Service Published:”Tuesday, March 04, 2008 OTTAWA — Plagued with plummeting revenues and piracy issues, the music industry is about to get another kick to its sales figures courtesy of retailer Wal-Mart and the Internet music shop iTunes.

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BBC Worldwide is to sell many of the corporation’s most popular shows through Apple iTunes, it confirmed today. Headline programmes including Torchwood , Life On Mars , Little Britain , Spooks and Ashes to Ashes are now available on the UK version of the service at Ј1.89 per episode. It makes the BBC the first British broadcaster to offer its shows through the application. New shows will be available for seven days on the corporation’s own iPlayer, as they are currently, before moving to iTunes.

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I am all for Apple introducing movie downloads…providing they offer HD as well. With the Apple TV having HDMI, this would seem like the next logical step. Let’s face it, the quality of the movies on iTunes right now is horrendous. If Xbox Live can offer me HD movie downloads, I know Apple can make this technology work as well. I know it isn’t “true HD,” but for a movie that downloads in a relatively short time, the quality on Xbox Live is still pretty good.

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Somehow, I get the feeling that Apple loves its Japanese customers more than it loves the rest of us. First, it reintroduced the Fukubukuro (Lucky Bag) promotion , and now it s giving away 100 free iTunes Songs to 10 lucky winners through the Japanese online store. MacNN pointed out the promotion to us yesterday the giveaway is part of Apple s iTunes Best of 2007 , which is apparently only being celebrated in Japan. Boo.

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The shows can be bought for CAN$1.99 apiece and are already available at the same ol 640×480. As usual, the shows can be played across Apple s growing ecosystem of gadgets, and we know what you re thinking, but no: unfortunately, there was no slip in Apple s announcement about a Canadian iPhone. All things considered though, we can agree with quotes from Eddy Cue, Apple s VP of iTunes, that we re off to a great start… just in time for the holiday season.

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Raven Moon Entertainment, Inc. (OTCBB: RAEM) announced that its ‘њSing Along With Gina DВ®’ќ music CD has been accepted by media giant ITUNES В® for distribution; Apple Computer 3-year agreement signed. Raven Moon has been accepted by ITUNES for the distribution of Raven’s ‘њSing Along With Gina DВ®’ќ music to millions of potential buyers in numerous countries; an agreement was reached with Apple Computer, Inc., owner of ITUNES. Raven’s CEO, Mr.

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“The next batch of painful ‘Jackass’ stunts is coming to a computer screen near you,” The Associated Press reports. “The first two films - spun off from the former MTV series - co-starred Johnny Knoxville and his gang of gross-out pranksters as they performed stunts to the delight of their youthful fans. But for the sequel ‘Jackass 2.5,’ the dirty daredevils pull a new stunt: bypassing the movie theater entirely,” AP reports. “‘Jackass 2.5′ will instead be released to the Internet.

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No work for Cubie until May, baby! I agree derelict. It is such a disappointment that the Apple TV won’t do any of this even though it probably has the capability. I would buy it in a second if it could hook up to stuff like Joost. Apple makes much more of its profit from selling iPods (and iPhones) than from the iTunes Store. Therefore, the iTunes Store, while profitable, is more of a means of selling more Apple hardware. NBC Universal makes it profit from selling content.

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Please read the full article as it contains much more than we could adequately condense here . MacDailyNews Take: In the full article, Morris discusses the birth of Apple’s iTunes and its subsequent growth, “We were just grateful that someone was selling online. The problem is, [Steve Jobs] became a gatekeeper. We make a lot of money from him, and suddenly you’re wearing golden handcuffs.

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Jermaine Dupri: We made iTunes, not Apple; no more singles, buy albums or we ll take them away! “Some people find it hard to understand my man Jay-Z’s decision not to let iTunes break up his American Gangster album and sell it as single tracks. They say he’s fighting the future and losing out on sales from fans who only want to download singles. But I say it was a stand somebody had to take in the music industry.

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