Originally Posted by RawAlex

The sad reality is that 6 months from now, someone will strike a deal that will knock the price back down to 99 cents for non-DRM songs, and the "miracle money" will all be gone.

Jobs is doing this mostly because he wants to avoid the litigation that would come if the super restrictive DRM was kept in place. The current DRM songs are sold at about the same price as buying the CD, but with significant restrictions on personal use (moving them from one player to another, moving them to non-apple players, etc). A class action suit on this isn't far off. Apple would likely win the suit because of "full disclosure" of their terms, but it would muddy their name no end - there is no win.

At the end of it all, there won't be much if any extra money 12 months from now, just consumers being a little more satisfied and less likely to check out other sources.