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MP3, Metallica chat and future of music



You can chat with the lovely and talented Metallica tomorrow at 5pm PDT
aka 8pm EDT and express your undying affection for their art. see
http://www.artistdirect.com/metallica/

/. has a wonderful Jon Katz article (part of which i've included below) on
napster, MP3 and the music biz.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/28/177215 with the delightful /.
responses (already over 130).

What do Metallica and Dr Dre have in common? The same lawyer, Howard
King. But according the "Spawn of Napster" in today's Standard
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,14543,00.html He'll have
plenty of other challenges ahead. You'll appreciate the list of "next
napsters" at the end of the article.

selected from /.
           "The shame here," a dissident, savvy music industry
           executive said in a phone interview over the weekend, "is that
           the record labels could have embraced MP3 and Napster,
           rather than going to war against them. What they don't grasp
           is that while piracy issues have a lot of validity, Napster
           constituted a rebellion against monopolistic music industry
           practices and greed, as well as a copyright problem. Instead
           of reforming, and grasping a real chance to change, the
           industry simply used the most heavy-handed method in
           dealing with these issues. Those of us who know the Net
           know this ruling will last for about a week. Piracy issues
           aside, the industry has a full-blown rebellion on their hands.
           These kids are never going back to the old way of buying
           music. We need a new system that responds to them and
           really does protect artists." 

           There were hopeful signs over the weekend. Danny
           Goldberg, one of the industry's most enlightened execs, and
           chief executive of Artemis Records, an independent label that
           releases CD's and runs Internet radio and music subscription
           services, said of music-sharing: "It seems counterintuitive,
           but an increase in free downloads coincided with an increase
           in paid sales. Particularly among the young audience, the
           people who are most wired, the evidence is that it's bonding a
           new generation to music." Goldberg's comments suggest that
           at least some leaders in the music industry grasp that new
           transmission technologies could be good both for the music
           industry and for artists. 



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