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Sprint Expands $10 Data Surcharge to All Smartphones

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 18, 2011 at 11:32 am PT

Starting Jan. 30, Sprint plans to charge all new Android, BlackBerry, Instinct, Palm and Windows Mobile data customers the extra fee. The charge had previously applied only to the carrier’s 4G phones, such as the Evo and Epic.

Actually, You're Taxing Our Intelligence …

John Paczkowski in News on March 28, 2008 at 5:39 am PT

Back in 2000-2001, when the Recording Industry Association of America was still trying to recover from its CD price-fixing scheme with poorly reasoned justifications for CD price inflation (“Listen, if CD prices were governed by the Consumer Price Index, you’d be paying $33.86 for them instead of $12.75!”), a little company called Napster came calling. [...]

Actually, You’re Taxing Our Intelligence …

John Paczkowski in News on March 28, 2008 at 5:39 am PT

Back in 2000-2001, when the Recording Industry Association of America was still trying to recover from its CD price-fixing scheme with poorly reasoned justifications for CD price inflation (“Listen, if CD prices were governed by the Consumer Price Index, you’d be paying $33.86 for them instead of $12.75!”), a little company called Napster came calling. [...]

Recording Industry Calls for "Monetization Without Representation"

John Paczkowski in News on March 13, 2008 at 10:13 am PT

The concept is simple: The music industry forms a collecting society, which then offers file-sharing music fans the opportunity to ‘get legit’ in exchange for a reasonable regular payment, say $5 per month. So long as they pay, the fans are free to keep doing what they are going to do anyway–share the music they [...]

Recording Industry Calls for “Monetization Without Representation”