Major Label Download Sites Not Doing So Hot

from the sounds-familiar dept

This has been discussed over and over again, but now the Associate Press has written up a story that is appearing everywhere about how consumers really don't care about the major label-backed online music sites. I think it's interesting that all the discussions about these sites focus on the money issue. None of them focus on the other benefits of a true peer-to-peer system that lets people recommend music to other people (and not just those songs the major label is pushing - or that a computer is recommending via collaborative filtering). Napster was nice because it built up communities of people interested in the same types of music. It wasn't just about the "free" nature of the music. It was about the joy of discovering new music. I'm not sure the music labels will ever understand that.

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