Comments on: new music business models

By: roj

roj — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 02:51:23 +0000

irate (and magnatune) have been on my to-blog list for a couple weeks now, but i haven’t really had a chance to do the homework i think they deserve.

rest assured, i’ll get there someday!

By: Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 01:55:27 +0000

Also, check out iRate Radio -- An open source, collaborative, web filtering, MP3 scraper. Its way cool: http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2003/10/_irate_radio_op.html

By: Tim Oren

Tim Oren — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 16:44:19 +0000

Great post. One nit: My original post on attacking the top hit end of the RIAA’s market did talk explciitly about the social/psychological role played by those objects-of-common-attention:

http://www.pacificavc.com/blog/2003/09/18.html#a359

I agree that there’s a need being filled there that is not going away, even if the way it’s delivered changes beyond recognition.

By: Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 05:01:55 +0000

There are a few interesting new models out there:

Weedshare is a MLM/DRM/P2P;

MagnaTunes is an opens source shareware model, with the twist that the artists gets 50% of all proceeds . . .