… make it cheap.
Since it still is the four majors that carry almost all music, they should have introduced dirt cheap subscription years ago. They would have made the same money - and they would have carved way through to keeping their position for years to come.
Now it is coming. (Maybe) Sooner than one might [...]

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Creative? The music industry? Absolutely. At a major music industry conference in New York, execs gathered to talk about the industry’s shift to Music 2.0—even if no one is quite sure what that means.read more | digg story

Justice or money grab? Bands are lining up to sue The Pirate Bay now that the Swedish government has indicted the site’s owners, but their plans could backfire as the promises of sunken treasure give way to reality.
In Denmark a large ISP has been forced to block access to TPB (proxy ahead). Meaningless. But
If [...]

“Let’s say Ford and GM decide to get together to sell cars. We would blink a couple of times and then we’d say, ‘Hey, that’s a cartel. You can go to jail for that.’” –Bob Lande, professor, University of Baltimore Law School
Three minute formats, and fixed pricing on Cd’s does raise some questions (like everything [...]

If you don’t enjoy our packages - and think the teasers are missing vocals - why not pop by a Creative Commons reference site. You’ll find loads of legal and nice music for your listening pleasure…
That was the CC excuse for posting this … what is indeed more interesting is a recent blog entry and [...]

Okay. They blew the launch. They’ve even misrepresented the big labels… But it’s fixable.
What is really annoying, is that the idiots haven’t come out from hiding… at the very least updated their website.
Transparency is needed. Tell the story. But hiding is becoming somewhat trendy when making mistakes… At least they have some 30 million to [...]

A digg post states:
“Qtrax is NOT just another P2P network, it provides a complete system for finding and downloading music. The player provides access a web site filled with artist content, including Videos, Ringtones, Lyrics, Album Art, up to the minute artist news! Try finding THAT on any other P2P network. Even better – its [...]

But Overall Sales Down 10 Percent…
The sale of digital music globally hit $2.9 billion in 2007, up 40 percent from 2006. But, as we’ve seen in the U.S. alone, that was not enough to offset the 10 percent decline in overall music sales to 17.6 billion…
Music is still one of the biggest things. And so [...]

From the post: “In the past year the number of web sites linking to free downloads and streaming music has exploded, meaning there are more ways than ever to get your music fix. Today I’ll highlight the best web sites -and best search kung-fu-for finding free music online. We covered this territory over two years [...]