Second: just because you don’t pirate music (and please don’t assume things so easily) doesn’t mean nobody else does.

I don’t agree.

NBC is wrong. $4.99 an episode (which I’m guess would be the bundled price for a show you want and a lesser show) is unacceptable.

You seem to be forgetting that CDs can be ripped, and that is completely legal. That fills up iPods just as easily as pirated content. Just because you pirate music, which is the only thing I can assume by your comments, doesn’t mean everyone else does.

There are some honest people that still exist.

I’ll be offended if I want to.

There is nothing “sane” about what NBC is proposing.

Also, for all this praise on Apple for protecting us from variable pricing, one forgets that it does allow it, in Japan’s iTMS. It supposedly protects us from higher pricing, but then that means we have no access for lower pricing offers, too, or some bundles.

The sane thing would have been to allow NBC to try things and see what works.

There is no pirated music in my iTunes library. I don’t appreciate being called a thief when I haven’t done anything wrong…and I’m not the only one that finds that comment insulting.

I make an effort to purchase digital music as opposed to just downloading albums off of Bittorrent, so it really bothers me when executives assume that I’m a thief.

Oh, please! Of course most mp3 players’ content, iPod included, is pirated music. Why, in some countries it is even legal.

100% of them are 100% filled with Pirated Content.

I find it very weird that NBC seem on the one hand to be whinging about piracy, whilst on the other hand only making their content easily available to those who are prepared to pirate. They can’t have it both ways. The iTunes store made The Office what it is, and yet they’re attacking the customers that helped that by cutting off one of their main supplies of obtaining that content legally.

It’s not like shooting themselves in the foot, it’s like taking a machine gun and firing round after round into their footware – it’s just insane.

Second, as a consumer in NBC’s target market I have the ability to let the advertisers know what I think of NBC insulting me as an ower of both an iPod and iPhone (used for this note).

Finally, the market forces will speak! Ad dollars are already walking from broadcast outlets to online outlets. So put pressure on NBC and their mismanagement via their wallet! Contact a sponsor and do not download NBC content.

After all, NBC is not an oil company … we can stand up to this companies price & greed games!

Cheers,

Mark

If they can’t be malleable enough to go with the digital age and open new and consumer friendly online stores, they are going to perish cos this is the future (near future) whether they like it or not.

Now they don’t have to pay a portion of their already established fortunes on setting up and maintaining such online stores, Apple did that part for them and Apple did it beautifully being the number one online store and the third nationwide in music sales among all stores whether online or not. And they still had the nerve to mess with that and show not only greed but hostility towards Apple and even the customers themselves.

Honestly I can’t see any more glaring example of lack of foresight than this. NBC you should fire your market research team ASAP and get yourselves a more IQ qualified (marketing people/spokespersons) if you are serious about staying up to your viewers expectations. Also a little apology for ipod users would be appropriate.

Thanks Michael for your insight on this issue and keep up the good work.

NBC is showing total greed!

1.) All they really have to do is hand over one file of each episode (that must cost a fortune).

2.) If Apple would have never designed this store, had total success with it, NBC would have NEVER had this extra income from their shows.

Total Greed… And raising prices would simply make people steal it if they want it… Lame move… B