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Win Spotify Invites from Creative Deconstruction

Posted on 12. Oct, 2009 by refe.

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Yesterday I posted a review of music streaming platform Spotify. Spotify has been available in the UK for a while, but the platform is only now about to become widely available in the US. Currently, the only way for US users to get access is through an invite. Fortunately, the good folks over at Spotify [...]

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3 Ways to Make Music Worth Paying For

Posted on 08. Jun, 2009 by refe.

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The future of the music industry as we know it will depend on how it responds now that the product on which they’ve built their empire is no longer profitable. While the major players are intrenched in red tape and beauracracy, independent artists and record labels have an incredible opportunity to adapt and thrive under the [...]

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Why Free Music Was Inevitable

Posted on 04. Jun, 2009 by refe.

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Digital files are infinite goods – the can be copied ad infinitum at no cost, and no significant investment of time. This is why the price of music has dropped, and this is why so much recorded music has been made available for free. The transition from physical to digital made free recorded music an inevitability.

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Can’t Live With the Major Labels, Can’t Seem to Get Around Them

Posted on 13. May, 2009 by refe.

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Right now the whole music industry is caught in a Catch-22. The major record labels are bleeding money and lack the capital to invest in real talent. Real talent is usually risky, and right now the majors can’t absorb any risk. Yet, the ones who would rise up and bring the creative deconstruction have their [...]

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Seth Godin and the New Free

Posted on 12. May, 2009 by refe.

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Free markets are cyclical. Economic trends will start out slow, pick up speed, boom, plateau, BUST. Take our current recession – three years ago even someone like me could afford a McMansion and a four car garage (boom,) and now we’re losing sixty-thousand jobs a month (bust.) The same can cycles can be found in the cost of goods and services.
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The Darknet and the Web Apocalypse

Posted on 01. Apr, 2009 by refe.

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The Chicago Tribune ran an article a couple of days ago by music critic Greg Kot. In it Kot talks about the way that the ‘Darknet’ – closed networks where users engage in illegal file sharing – may cause the government to impose tyrannical restrictions on the Internet in order to protect copyrighted materials.
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Why Music Streaming Will Not Destroy Music

Posted on 26. Mar, 2009 by refe.

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Business Week ran an article recently that talks about the “problem” of online music streaming services. The article claims that while online streaming was initially intended to promote music, and therefore promote the purchasing of music, it has actually had the opposite effect. The author describes a 23 year old man who has gone from spending [...]