Next month, people “in the know” say that Apple will be launching a new music streaming service to compete with Pandora and Spotify.<\/p>\n
The iTunes “buy and download a track at a time” model totally disrupted the buy a physical album business model, and gathered enough critical mass so Apple could tell the record labels what the new rules were going to be.<\/p>\n
Then Pandora, Spotify and others undermined Apple with the “buffet” model of paying a monthly fee and eating as much as you want, but not buying any long term right to listen to the music for free.<\/p>\n
If I were king, I would organize a year long boycott of all music, demanding a serious gutting of the copyright law on music. If tomorrow was really #thedaythemusicdied and there was no music anywhere, what would the world do? Probably climb electric poles and adjust the insulators by hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Next month, people “in the know” say that Apple will be launching a new music streaming service to compete with Pandora and Spotify. The iTunes “buy and download a track at a time” model totally disrupted the buy a physical … Continue reading