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Pete Townshend Slams Apple as Digital Vampire
11/02/2011
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(Rock News Desk) Who guitarist Pete Townshend says Apple is behaving like a "digital vampire" by "bleeding" musicians and giving nothing back to the music industry.

And he's called on the firm to start giving back instead of simply taking revenue out of the business.

He used his platform at BBC6 Music's inaugural John Peel Lecture to query the morality of the iTunes business model, which is responsible for more than three quarters of all digital music sales. more on this story

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