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I see it more as two approaches to tackling big music. ie despite their differences they are both pulling in the same direction. Over the last 100 years as records and cds have become common in every household, big music has developed a business model based on the sales of few big stars. This requires lots of pressings of the same record and enables economies of scale where it doesn't need to keep a lot of stock of every recorded piece of music. This is quite a similar model to the traditional method of selling books. A book store will stock few popular books but has much less variety than a library. When amazon came in the book business it brought in the ability to "stock" a much larger range of books. Not surprisingly it found a significant percentage (40?) of it sales to be in what is called "the long tail", ie books not normally stocked in the book store. The internet and digital music has challenged big music's business model. The ability to copy music at will means that electronic music stores don't even have to keep stores of cds. All that it is required are electronic copies of the music. Big music however has refused to adapt its busniess model. Traditional profits create a huge commercial inertia and instead of embracing the new technology it has fought it off tooth and nail to the extent where it is even suing its consumers. Apple has made a compromise with big music to open the door to new music business models. France is just making sure that there is a level playing field in new music that is open to competition for all players. Being forced to buy the same music over and over again with varying drms to play on devices made by different manufacturers clearly doesn't make sense, contravenes any notion of fair use and would harm the music industry. cheers Gus PS Pandora has a totally different business model again and should be congratulated on its novel approach. Expect plenty more change in the music industry. -- gusi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gusi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3801 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22423 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
