Always Helping Themselves
You have to love the RIAA: as reported by TechDirt, it seems that they want to keep the wholesale prices that iTunes pays a secret:
In one of the recent lawsuits, UMG v. Lindor, where the defendant is challenging the damages amount, the RIAA is refusing to disclose the wholesale pricing details unless they can require Lindor's attorneys to keep the prices confidential. Her attorneys refuse to do so, on the grounds that the information really isn't confidential, and the only reason the RIAA is hoping to keep the prices quiet is to assist them in other lawsuits. Perhaps that would be lawsuits like the one they're facing from a bunch of musicians who feel that the labels are cheating them out of revenues owed from digital downloads.
At least it's clear who all the lies and DRM are for; it's certainly not the artists. Which makes the crap being pulled by Microsoft with the Zune and in Vista even more infuriating.
