Looks like this is shaping up
to be a good week for Apple and their digital music business -- after the French government
effectively eviscerated the iPod DRM bill, it was reported that EMI, Sony BMG, Universal, and Warner Music have all
renewed their contracts to sell music on the iTunes Music Store at the standard, flat $0.99 per track rate (that was supposedly settled on before),
instead of that yucko variable pricing scheme that would have had consumers paying more for new music, and less for
older tracks. It basically sounds like Jobs himself reigns victorious over putting these music execs in their place and
bending them his will, but who kn
