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Led by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, major media corporations are watching closely as newspaper publishers experiment with pay walls and online charges. The future of such business models is highly uncertain. Whether it is news, music, movies, or television, it is quite difficult to get the online consumer to pay for content. Consider how Apple’s much-touted success in online music sales, with annual revenue in 2010 of approximately $4.1 (U.S.) billion, may be little more than a loss-leader.

Apple earns only modest profits from iTunes and related online divisions. Peter Oppenheimer, Chief Financial Officer of iTunes and the App Store, admitted in 2010 that ‘regarding the App Store and the iTunes Store, we’re running those a bit over break-even, and that hasn’t changed.’1 Apple uses iTunes as a lure for selling its cellular phones. By 2013 Apple was estimated to bring in $12 billion in annual revenue from iTunes and related sales, yet it remained unclear how much profit comes from the sales of music.2 Some analysts estimate that 2013 profits from iTunes will reach as much as $2 billion. This is a tidy sum but iTunes success remains ‘a source of endless frustration for the music industry.’3 Apple achieved its iTunes success by ‘manhandling the major record labels during a series of now-legendary negations’ that resulted in a pricing agreement that music executives quickly came to regret.4 So while the standard line of thinking suggests that iTunes represents the potential for enormous profit from online sale of entertainment content, the actual facts of the matter are far from clear. iTunes may also represent a looming threat for the film and television industry. It has demonstrated that an industry’s content (music) can end up in the hands of another industry (Apple/iTunes) and be sold at a much lower price than it once cost consumers.

1. Myslewski, ‘Apple: iPhone App and iTunes Store Don’t Make Money.’
2. Dediu, Horace. ‘A More Complete Picture of the iTunes Economy.’
3. Covert, ‘A Decade of iTunes Singles Killed the Music Industry.’
4. Ibid.

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Wow.. Women need to quit crying. Men harass everyone, other men especially. We use every derogatory and evil thing we can come up with when were gaming, its kinda like when your driving in a car and you get man at somebody. Its not personal, we just talk ****. Has nothing to do with sex, race, religion, etc.. People need to get over there own insecurities and grow a pair. This is America, were supposed to be harden to peoples bull****, if you can't hack it, move to France.

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Well its all about anonimity, people act sexist to get a rise out of people. Not that I am saying the behaviour is appropriate but everybody gets harassed for every reason in gaming. Honestly more often than not Women usually hold the power. I think that they should talk about everything and not specifically victimize women. I have had enough of feminist groups who think that marriage is a form of legalized rape and that we as men force women into sex and only abuse them and use them as a piece of meat.

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I feel like they may be reaching to be honest, you can cover discrimination in general in 90 minutes but I mean aside from people either being *******s or making sexual advances on women or sexist jokes there isn't much else to talk about, anything more serious would be too unrelated and would have to do with sexism in general and hate towards women, which you can thank yo those extremist groups, I have run into alot of women who think they are extremely oppressed and that men rape women, its like they say Women don't enjoy sex. What also worries me are the girls who cry wolf, some dress in revealing wear and get upset that men stare. Or the women who are very flirtatious and turn around and call sexual harassment when the wrong person flirts back, I have never been accused because I dont fall for those traps but I have seen it happen. The whole sexism and females being oppressed in any capacity as a whole is bull****, yes some women are oppressed, but in our society in North America its rare to see. Women generally have the power over men when it comes to sex....

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The popularity of pornography industry is a testament to women like you. The attitude that women like you have forced onto North America, make it so hard for a man to find a sexual partner its insane. North American women have the upper hand in every single way. If a man can't find a sexual partner, what do you expect him to use to satisfy his biological urges? Thus, pornography. And yes it does lead to more objectification. But that is one of the failures of feminism, the emasculating of man to the point where he has little choice, let alone finding a "normal" woman to partner up with.

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No they do not get the short end of the stick. In Canada women ALWAYS have power over men, because of nutsos like you. You cannot control what men think because you don't like it, is it okay for women to think of men as sexual objects then? Because I know plenty of feminazis like you who think that way. Genitalia isn't the issue, YOUR ego is. A women dresses in a sexual manner, what do you expect as a response? Ofcourse men are going to look, what are you a moron!? If a guy walks topless on the beach and a woman finds that attractive, its the same deal! Are you that sexually ignorant and one sided?

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