2007-11-17 10:43:39
i actually agree with you (Score:5, Interesting)
by circletimessquare (444983) on Friday November 16, @04:14PM (#21383843)
(http://circletimessquare.com/)
iTunes is just a stopgap measure between the old world and the new
in the new world, all music content will be free. artists will support themselves with tip jars and advertisements and touring. and THERE WILL BE NO MIDDLE MAN. because the internet has simply replaced them
iTunes, bertelsman, polygram: dust in the wind. the dutch east india company. extinct. defunct, irrelevant and unnecessary
and these developments have nothing at all to do with all the tired old legal arguments. it will just happen, because it's simple economic forces at work
the final implications of the new technology called the internet is the extinction of all music publishers