Rumours have been doing the rounds that iTunes would up their prices, it was great to see Steve Jobs stand up for the consumer and say NO!

In fact he went further, he said that the record companies already make more money per tune on iTunes than they do from CD sales because they don’t have to actually manufacture anything so looking for a rise is just the record companies getting greedy. That in it self is a statement worthy of applause, but he went further and said it like it is. He said that people use iTunes because they like getting music legally for a fair price, and that increasing this price significantly would undermine this and drive people to piracy.

I can only speak for myself but I think Steve has hit the nail on the head. I don’t WANT to pirate music but I am not about to bend over and let the record company fat cats fuck me over. I love iTunes because it gives me legal music at a fair price, it is perfect and I have not pirated a single piece of music since I set up my iTunes account. If the record companies force apple to dramatically up the price then I will have zero moral objection to pirating music because the record companies will have proven themselves to the thieving bastards and hence I will have no problems fucking them over in return for them fucking me over, in fact I will take pleasure from it.

Listen up Sony and co. I don’t pirate music or software, don’t force me to by being money grabbing bastards!