iTunes iSbogus is a
critique of the Apple iTunes Music Store and a parody of an Apple website
all rolled into one. Apple used to claim the store is "fair to artists",
but
removed that claim
from their website; possibly because of this site.
Nice site. Good arguments, good proposed solution (display the artist's
cut with the price).
Via The Register's
interview with Jim Griffin: "It costs $20,000 to fill an iPod from iTunes
Music Store. Quite simply, no one looks at a 40 GB iPod and thinks, 'it
will cost me $20,000 to fill it'. It's a polite fiction."
Bram finally gets some money
Looks like long-suffering BitTorrent developer and CodeCon co-founder Bram
Cohen is
finally getting some money. Valve hired him to work on their Stream file
distribution network and he's getting more donations now on
his site.