Last year, we were talking to a record label about how they could use our social media platform Media Factory to better engage fans and maybe make money again. My gut feeling then was that the future of artist-fan relationships was in a personal subscription model. As part of my research, I joined Take This
Nine Inch Nails just release their new album The Slip as a %100 free download. I might go so far as to say it is a %110 free download, given the extremely open set of formats it which it is available: High-quality MP3s (87 mb) – encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged. FLAC lossless
It only took the government 50 or so years to finally do something about major labels monopolizing radio by paying off the radio stations. Why would they do that? Limit consumer choice, squash the indies. Fast-forward to tonight’s news. Rumour has it that the Apple is pitching the labels on a flat license that allows