Well, we finally have it. Music like water raining down from the sky. iCloud. For slightly more than $2/mo everybody will soon have access to all the music they can find, steal, share, rip, produce, morph or buy using iTunes Match. Is this amnesty for all the music pirates? I hope so. As we predicted […]
Tales From the Dredging of the River of Music
March 25, 2010 By 2 Comments
If you’ve ever felt grateful for the list of titles and track lengths that appear when you pop a CD into your player, David Hyman’s Gracenote is the company to thank. It enters all that data so you don’t have to. After Hyman helped expand Gracenote from a tiny metadata venture into the world’s largest […]
Hypebot Reviews Free Music Debate
May 3, 2009 By 1 Comment
Great collection of characters commenting on free music from Hypebot. Inspired by the coming release of Chris Andersen's book Free: The Future of a Radical Price, we've been exploring the importance of free music. There is no debating that free is here, but the discussion as to how to use free music, even how to […]
Moving toward the river of music – payment plans
January 22, 2009 By 6 Comments
Here is an study of consumer behavior and gym memberships. It casts some light onto the motivators which influence purchasing behavior. Paying Not to go to the Gym The science behind behavioral bias towards all-you-can-eat plans in the attached paper “Paying Not to go to the Gym” is pretty interesting. A private equity firm recently […]
Compensation not Control
January 17, 2009 By 2 Comments
Hot off the Midem press: Compensation Not Control Music 2.0 Gerd Leonhard Midem Net 2009.Keyhttp://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=compensation-not-control-music-20-gerd-leonhard-midemnet-2009key-1232242685491875-2&stripped_title=compensation-not-control-music-20-gerd-leonhard-midem-net-2009key-presentation View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: isps leonhard)
Music Like Water – Forbes Article Reprised
March 31, 2008 By 16 Comments
People should pay for their music the way they pay for gas or electricity. More people are consuming music today than ever before, yet very few of them are paying for it. The music recording industry blames file sharing for a downturn in CD sales and, with the publishing companies, has tried its best to […]
