i’m obviously still on the back end of the loop when it comes to the ongoing music business discussion, so in an attempt to catch up and keep myself a bit relevant, i’ve opted to skip the “essay-length” response once again (and i apologize to all those who were so looking forward to my dense, improperly capitalized prose \ud83d\ude42 ).<\/p>\n
first, i want to thank john beezer of weedshare for dropping in<\/a> and saying hello. i’m glad he appreciated my back-of-the-envelope analysis of weedshare, and he did take a few steps toward answering the concerns i suggested participants in the system might have (both listeners and musicians). that’s a very welcome thing, i’m glad this little blog in the dark corner of the net helped shed some light on the adventures happening over there.<\/p>\n next, i want to assure you that i intend to make some comments on irate and magnatune and mercora and last.fm and several other things – but i do want to devote a bit of time to them, and it’s been a bit hectic here lately.<\/p>\n if you’re following the music business discussion among the blogs, i’d point you to this<\/a> bit by kevin laws over at due diligence<\/a>, and this<\/a> and this<\/a> over at the big picture<\/a>. barry’s talking about irate, kevin’s talking about some of the reasons online distribution hasn’t happened yet. both are worthy of a visit. i’ll respond someday \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n the new york times has a recent piece<\/a> [registration], on the history of the prices of various audio formats.<\/p>\n