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Originally Posted by DamianJ
Why has no one done that to iTunes?
Amazon could undercut. Google could. A.N.Other could. They don't. Why?
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Because they are smarter than most porn people.
For years online porn has been run by everyone and their brother. Small 1 and 2 person operations (I am one of them). So instead of just having a few companies that have to agree with how to run things (IE there are only a handful of major record labels and only a few companies that have the capability of putting together an iTunes like program) you have thousands and thousands of people who are running the industry.
The other factor is you have to get the record labels to go along with it. If they won't let you sell their product at the price you want to sell it at, you have nothing to sell. Here I can buy content from any number of content brokers and do with it as I please. So with music the main players involved are smart enough to try to keep the prices around the same and compete on a features base (IE Amazon sells DRM free MP3s which iTunes does not - although that may be changing) instead of a price base where as we have a very documented history of competing simply by giving more away for free.