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Re:Crowd Patronage: How A 400 Year Old Model Can Save The Mu... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @03:40PM (#4609291)
My point is that there will probably be services beyond simply giving me music that I and people with similarly inelastic demands will be willing to pay for. Whether that manifests as a Spotify-like subscription or iTunes-esque pay-per-download has yet to be seen.
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Re:Crowd Patronage: How A 400 Year Old Model Can Save The Mu... by freshhawk on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @03:46PM (#4609323)
Ah, gotcha. I see those services dying pretty quickly actually and music just being shared and downloaded from all over and always free.

I guess there will always be a place for pay services dealing with recommendation or cloud storage but I'm assuming that the value of a digital copy of a song, streamed or not, will be zero pretty soon.

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