The day the music played dead.
by Colin Dodd
If it seems a little quiet out there today, here’s why.
Techcrunch applauds participants in the day of silence, but takes Last.FM to task for remaining “on air.” Last.FM defend themselves by explaining how they’ve dealt with the royalty issue heretofore (by finding a business model that can survive reality) before saying “We do not want to punish our listeners for our problems, period.”
Meanwhile, in the realm of free culture where all those pesky rules and royalties are moot, Mike Linksvayer (What a nice name for a blogger, eh.) on the Creative Commons blog links to an essay by Mike Gregoire of blocSonic.com on what it will take to make open music more mainstream.
I think that it’s safe to say that every day new listeners are being introduced to net audio. It’s also safe to say, that if these new listeners hear just a couple net audio gems that they connect to, they’re more-likely to overcome their first inclination to think that free equals uninteresting, unprofessional or simply bad. Once a listener realizes that net audio is as good or better than mainstream music, they’re in. They’re part of the movement. They begin to explore the net audio world. The more you explore and listen to net audio, the less you’re influenced by the mainstream music-industry.
