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   Yeah, but what are we going to call it?

   

   Oliver Wendell Jones, Dec 8th, 2003 @ 12:11pm

   
   

   When all of the dot-com businesses appeared out of nowhere with worthless business plans and failed - it was simple enough to call it the dot-bomb.
   
   When 999 out of 1000 new music services open and fail within the first 6-12 months what are we going to call it?
   
   DRM-bomb?
   Music-bomb?
   Napster-fallout?
   
   We need to figure this out and soon so I can go register the corresponding domain name...

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   Is There Any Company At All Who Won't Launch Their

   

   Fazookus, Dec 8th, 2003 @ 5:39pm

   
   

   "...shutting down or merging all of these download stores into just a few entities.".
   
   Mostly Microsoft ;-)

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   Re: Is There Any Company At All Who Won't Launch T

   

   Fazookus, Dec 8th, 2003 @ 6:04pm

   
   

   
   Here it is: Microsoft Windows Server 2004, comes with ActiveMusicServer built in. It's part of Windows, you see, can't be removed, so don't ask. Also it's The Standard for digital music distribution, see, obviously because just about everybody likes it enough to have it on their computer (Media Player 2004, of course). And it's the choice the RIAA, too!
   
   Someone please quote me, I'm brilliant.
   
   

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   Re: Is There Any Company At All Who Won't Launch T

   

   Anonymous Coward, Dec 8th, 2003 @ 6:22pm

   
   

   Microsoft will make 'server 2005' because of the 2+ year cycle.
   
   Office 95 Office 97
   Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows 2000
   
   And techdirt hasn't listed a music service, so not EVERONE has one.

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   Actually..

   

   mhh5, Dec 8th, 2003 @ 6:42pm

   
   

   I don't think this is such a horrible idea for Coke... Call me crazy (thanks, Mike, I hear you yelling "crazy"), but I think that Coke *could* implement a music service correctly. I mean, they could revive their whole "teach the world to sing" campaign. If they can stick their logo and ads on a music site that people might actually use, they would get incredible recognition. I don't know how much they'll spend on a music offering, but there might be a reasonable amount that would help them keep their marketing edge. I'd like to see the numbers of what a music service would cost them in comparison to their total advertising budget before I scolded them for jumping foolishly into the business. I mean, New Coke was a costly venture, and they still survived that.... A music service can't be worse than almost killing your main product.

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   Re: Actually..

   

   Anonymous Coward, Dec 9th, 2003 @ 1:40am

   
   

   So, Mike, when are you launching the Techdirt Music Store?
   

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   No Subject Given

   

   Tom, Dec 9th, 2003 @ 2:06pm

   
   

   How many times have you paid full price for an album to only have a couple of songs that are actually good. Problem with most bands is they have 1 or 2 good songs and the rest are not really good. Paying by the song will encourage bands and record companies to provide more quality albums. I enjoy the fact that I can get songs without wasting my money on the full album.

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   Apple pitch...

   

   Anonymous Coward, Dec 10th, 2003 @ 2:51am

   
   

   "you don't want to spend the rest of your life selling sugar[y,] water[ish music], do you?
   
   ...oh, wait, now I'm so confused.

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