Internet is down at my house right now, so updates might be a bit sporadic for awhile here...not that they haven't been in the past, haha.
I've been really diving in to some research on the music industry lately, trying to decide why I feel the way I do about downloading music illegally. This really resonated with me, and I hope you guys think it's interesting too.
Artists like Saul Williams and Radiohead are determining the future of the music scene, and I can't wait to see where it ends up. I only hope more bands decide to follow their example, and I wish people would have caught on sooner.
Digital distribution is the future, whether record companies want to admit it or not. Steve Jobs has taken some baby steps in the right direction, with DRM free downloads from the iTunes store, but even those are imprinted with the username of the person downloading it.
Despite never having used it, OiNK really was the best thing to happen to the music scene. If recording companies had put their considerable political and financial muscle behind developing something like it early on in the game, ie when Napster was still around, they easily could've pushed Napster and other lookalikes out of the filesharing arena simply by offering a better, faster, service.
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