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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: vansmack on August 26, 2009, 01:19:55 pm

Title: Michael Robertson: Digital music's bad boy was right
Post by: vansmack on August 26, 2009, 01:19:55 pm
This deserves special treatment outside of my thread.  When this guy speaks, you should listen.


Michael Robertson: Digital music's bad boy was right (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10316733-93.html?tag=nl.e703)

Over the years, Michael Robertson, the man who founded pioneering digital music service MP3.com, has never hesitated to make a prediction about the sector's future.

"It's not a business," Robertson has told me often in the past about ad-supported music sites. Frankly, in the past, I didn't pay much attention. I do now.

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Read the rest about why Real, MS and Apple have all gone about it the wrong way.  Pandora too.  Good stuff.