Everyone’s linking to it, and with good reason — Janis Ian’s proposal for breaking out of the online music logjam: “All the record companies get together and build a single giant website, with everything in their catalogues that’s currently out of print available on it, and agree to experiment for one year.” Charge a reasonable fee per download. See what happens.
Of course, it’s hard to imagine the record companies collaborating like this. But if even two got together and started down this road it could snowball. Somehow antitrust objections would have to be overcome. Still, it’s a great dream. Maybe there are still some dreamers in the music industry.
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