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  1. swamp-yankee says:

    Steal my music, but pay Apple to deliver it? Great business plan. Yes musicians, climb aboard a new machine that will include you on THEIR terms.

  2. Shawn says:

    Very interesting analysis. I think that the model is ramping up beyond what most people envisaged. Now I await it to penetrate more of the book markets, especially the sacrosanct world of academic publishing.

    Some parallels to be found here.

    Can allowing misuse of OERs lead to greater uptake. Similarities to #music that #ebook publishers need http://shawnmehan.com via @shawnmehan

  3. Thiswillsavemusic says:

    I’m in big agreement with this idea – however, I feel that Bowie is wrong about authorship.

    On my blog: thiswillsavemusic.blogspot.com, I’ve outlined what I feel would be a 4-step approach to a better music system. I believe that the creator of the music will still be recognised as the creator and rewarded as such.

    However, the idea of being in total control of the invention will not occur, i.e. copyright control. Here, it will be akin to a government assuming control of a vital drug or the releasing of a trademark name that has become ubiquitous. Artists will not have the right to restrict music that they have created such as pirated works, bootlegs, album singles, cover versions for download. However, they could retain the right to present this music in their own fashion – retaining some artistic control over things like albums collections. The user will have the opportunity to listen to everything (if they want) or browse the artists page for a more focussed introduction.

    I totally agree with your pricing as well – “At $25 per person, if 200 million people opted in for iTunes Match, the service would gross $5 billion a year just for the ability to provide access to any song on any device” – 200 million seems like an underestimate as well. It is not unforeseeable that this price could be very simply added to a mobile phone bill as this would probably target more customers than those will PCs.

    The total availability of music could herald a whole new shift in the people who access music – especially older people who have difficulty with the myriad of technologies on the internet and may be suffering a lower quality product as a result (e.g. listening on youtube).

  4. Sens says:

    You hope it is amnesty??? How are artists and producers supposed to make an income from their work if this forgives a potentially infinite amount of piracy?

    Apple has not stated that this is amnesty.

  5. armenia4ever says:

    Fascinating article. I wasn’t even aware of this service.

    I’m not sure if the current industry ideologues will go change their tune, but it won’t matter in 10 years. Piracy is going to become more rampant then it ever has been before, and thats going to include software, videos, games, ect.

    In the case of music however, the smart entrepreneur and smart CEO is going to try to find the next cashcow in the ruins of the music industry. That cashcow is distribution.

  6. Hertfordshire says:

    At $25 per person, if 200 million people opted in for iTunes Match, the service would gross $5 billion a year just for the ability to provide access to any song on any device, and let you pirate all the music you want to at will– this is big amount is it really possible

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