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The insanity goes on
August 31, 2007 | 3 Comments | Joshua Gans
The NYT is reporting that NBC is not renewing its iTunes contract for TV shows. It is probably just a negotiating ploy — although it seems designed to get Steve Jobs not to mention The Office when new iPods are launched next week which, for some reason, NBC sees in its interest as it sells that show! Anyhow the loss of NBC will take that show and also the two other most popular downloads, Battlestar Galactica and Heroes off for next year. Based on past posts here about download TV, I know that some Australians use iTunes to download these shows (to attempt to pay for them) rather than do so illegally but for free. Again this makes little sense as NBC cited piracy concerns as one of its reasons to stop its contract. Sigh.
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[...] The insanity goes on » This Summary is from an article posted at CoreEcon on Friday, August 31, 2007 This article’s [...]
[...] up on yesterday’s news that NBC shows would not be on iTunes, Apple had a press release today stating the following [...]
That is too bad. Apple has their hands everywhere I can’t imagine anyone trying to separate themselves from this monolith of a company. Hopefully NBC rethinks their strategy and approaches Apple in a different way.