Comments on: music subscriptions http://gonze.com/blog/2009/10/14/music-subscriptions/ internet music technology Tue, 15 May 2012 15:02:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Crosbie Fitch http://gonze.com/blog/2009/10/14/music-subscriptions/comment-page-1/#comment-4000 Crosbie Fitch Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:14:20 +0000 http://gonze.com/blog/?p=2085#comment-4000 Are you looking to sustain the industry of artists performing and recording their music and selling it to their audiences, or the industry of record labels making and selling copies of recordings at monopoly protected prices? A more efficient industry may well have two less zeroes on its turnover (given no middlemen taking 99%), but that doesn't mean it's necessarily a smaller or less productive industry. Are you looking to sustain the industry of artists performing and recording their music and selling it to their audiences, or the industry of record labels making and selling copies of recordings at monopoly protected prices?

A more efficient industry may well have two less zeroes on its turnover (given no middlemen taking 99%), but that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a smaller or less productive industry.

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