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Friday, June 21, 2002
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Arts & Farces Michael Fraase has produced an excellent analysis and several suggestions about music distribution and the Internet.
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Adam Curry writes about his discovery of EMusic.
What's even slicker is their affiliate program.
Download, Play, Burn MP3s!!
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A concise article framing the current debate about Internet music services.
Control of the Internet is not simply about protecting against theft, then; it's about securing the same exclusionary distribution monopoly that the labels have in the real world.
Many major-label artists, the successful ones at least, have threatened court action if their music is offered online, claiming that labels are cheating them of royalties by paying them at the same rate as if they had sold a single. (Since the royalty rate for a single is determined by the label's need for marketing, distribution and packaging, all of which are different for Internet use, this is a skewed proposal.)
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 "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
Hunter S. Thompson
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