Wednesday, June 2, 2004

PBS's Frontline interviewed David Crosby recently. One of the pull-quotes they feature is: "It changed it from being about the music to being about what you look like." Interesting that a few days later Linda Ronstadt says essentially the same thing. But anyway... the final quote in the Crosby interview caught my eye: "... iTunes is a good idea. It delivers the music to you cheap, pays us, doesn't cheat anybody, and it cuts out all middlemen -- very good. " Eliminating middlemen (as a gatekeeper) is one of the key advantages for micropayments. While some could argue that Apple has become the new middleman in the iTunes ecology, I'm talking about the bigger picture, which includes micropayment approaches like BitPass or Peppercoin. When the artist can sell their content directly to anyone with access to a computer on the planet, the middleman's criteria as to whether the artist is worthwhile or not is history. That to me is revolutionary. 7:24:14 AM

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