This deserves special treatment outside of my thread. When this guy speaks, you should listen.
Michael Robertson: Digital music's bad boy was rightOver 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.