In all practical purposes there hasn’t been an artist that has only broken online, there has always been some sort of other tie-in.

It’s a part of them ramping up and getting to an economy of scale where they can actually make money.

The power balance at this point is probably still going to be on the side of Steve Jobs and Apple.

The labels really want to be able to boost up the price for downloads on new releases. The question is, are we at a time now that we want to experiment with variable pricing?

What it comes down to is it really is a love-hate relationship. Certainly, would the labels like to have more control over pricing? Absolutely. Would they like to have more influence on format availability? Absolutely.

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It is a first. It will be interesting to see whether or not folks pay for this content.

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Both offenses produced good results,