‘The iTunes Store is killing the music business. Sure, it provides a legal alternative to theft/copyright infringement, but the economics make no sense.’
Dec
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P2P — people2people — communications are here to stay. The information-for-all genie is well and truly out of the bottle and nothing will get it back in.
Dec
11
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To date, all that the industry has accomplished through its brute force efforts is to waste time, lose money, and squander goodwill. No time remains for stopgap measures.
Dec
5
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‘The best streaming solution, at least from a listener’s point of view …’
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2
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“I was naively excited when I opened the envelope. And my answer was right there on the first page. In five years, our three albums earned us a grand total of …
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25
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‘ … the only way to achieve success for both the services and the rights holders … is through deals based on revenue-sharing that are structured with complete transparency.
Nov
21
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Music is like diamonds. Diamonds aren’t rare, but they’re controlled at the source …
Nov
17
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Why the crisis facing the recording industry isn’t a crisis for the artist …
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12
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“What you’ve described is not the first time such a thing has been proposed. And every such proposal always fails to address the many problems such a levy brings …”
Nov
12
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Music fans could legally share and download music without requiring ISPs to ‘police or pressure their customers’ and would ‘reward artists and rights holders’,
Nov
6
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“I’m not a musician. I’m a fan.
“And from my perspective, it’s clear that fans do want to support artists that they like.”
Oct
31
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“How can we avoid demonizing P2P users while at the same time allocating funds to artists/copyright owners in a responsible manner?”
Oct
30
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There seems to be a lot of confusion in the copyright threads about the difference between music as a commodity and music as a service
Oct
27
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It’s long gone time for artists to be talking to fans, and fans to artists
Oct
25
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Music is important. It is ubiquitous today with good reason: we just can’t get enough of it, and its life-enhancing effect is ever-changing and ongoing.
If it had been possible for the past ten years to download nails, most of us would long ago have acquired all the nails we could possibly need, nail factories would [...]
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Over in the UK, Crosbie Fitch is developing 1p2u (1P to you), which he describes like this:
It’s a little widget you put on your blog
It lets your readers become paying subscribers
Subscribers pay you a penny for each article you write
In other words, his interest in finding ways for people pay each other is more than [...]