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Legal digital music is commercial suicide
- ricree 18y agoSo how do Itunes and Amazon fit in with this author's viewpoint. To broadly paint all online music stores into one of three categories without once mentioning the largest and most successful certainly casts some doubt on his opinion.
- jmtulloss 18y agoThe sites you mention are retailers. Retailers don't have any legal gray areas; it's pretty straightforward.
- Herring 18y agoI'll give it a try. Due to the ipod, I'm thinking Apple was big enough to dictate its own terms. Some of that applies to amazon besides they get to sell DRM free stuff because the labels hate apple a lot more. Working as intended. The industry is one big middleman. Does anyone think they'll willingly let in another middleman?
- jmtulloss 18y agoMy startup (http://harmonize.fm http://harmonize.fm) tried to go the legal route but couldn't find the massive funding necessary to do so. It's sad, since I feel that our service was so simple and useful. The large up front fees required by the labels ensure that there are very few players in the space, and with that, very little innovation.
- paul9290 18y agoWhat needs to happen is labels creating a department specifically for startups. Maybe a technology music startup incubator of sorts in each label, that facilitates and promotes new music technologies. Such new tech is the only way the industry will survive! Right now it seems build an audience and then the industry will talk with you, but it's not about how each can benefit each one another... rather pay X, agree to crazy X or die! That is so backwards - litigation as a business, maybe good for ambulance chasers, but not for companies promoting the arts!
- misuba 18y agoEmusic has survived for a really long time...