The Economist on DRM, well rather on the merits of ditching DRM: The music giants are trying DRM-free downloads. Lots of smaller labels already sell music that way. Having seen which way the wind is blowing, Mr Jobs now wants to be seen not as DRM’s defender, but as a consumer champion who helped in […]
[…] some DRM-based business model innovations may go down (and then, who cares or likes nifty-smarty pricing schemes that depend on DRM etc. when all that is really needed is simplicity of use), but there will be other chances for business model innovations in the music industry … Updating my take on Jobs’ Thoughts on […]
Interesting little article on how musicians are increasingly bypassing big labels by utilizing platforms like MySpace.com, noting also the high up-front costs of going with a major label, By making their recordings available for free and allowing people to share them with each other, bands are able to get themselves heard without having to spend […]
This seems like a pretty bad business model innovation idea … who cares which label an artist is signed on to, so I don’t know what they hope for really: Universal Music, a unit of Vivendi Universal, becomes the latest to get into the affinity phone business, joining the likes of ESPN and Walt Disney […]
Found a good review of the current business models in online music stores … well, pricing models at least, noting some of the problems that are keeping them busy, like (shop) software complexity, procurement pricing and gaping holes in song catalogs. a lot has changed in the online music business since Apple opened its wildly […]
Marc Cuban on the insanities and follies of the music industry, that seems to ignore logic and reason. He is making some nice points there, e.g. Insanity is […] focusing most of your business on selling music to the exact demographic that has the most time to spend on finding free music and most energy […]
