Lawnun wrote: [ on 08:58 PM 8/14/2007 ]
I just skimmed the article, but how is this really all that new?
It's not, of course. Here's an account [1] of one earlier set of discussions on this list, during the "summer of Napster" (2000, a more innocent time before the dot.bust, 9/11 and the Bush-Cheney axis of evil's worst excesses)
I thought that this would be an interesting point in time to pick up on the discussion again, not least because it seems to me that the current business model that the music industry is using is entering its final death throes, notwithstanding the mountain of lawsuits they are using to try and prop it up.
The idea of record-label free distribution has been done at least since 1997 [1], to varying [2] degrees [3] of success. [4]
True, but it is still interesting to look at, inter alia, the reflex reactions e.g, [2] the industry exhibits.
[1] http://silk.arachnis.com/anthro/Recursive_Publics.pdf [2] http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2114557,00.html -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
