[Infowarrior] - The music biz's digital flops - a short history

[Richard Forno]

The music biz's digital flops - a short history
By Paul Sanders
Published Monday 26th May 2008 12:02 GMT

Since the record industry first noticed that some of the kids were  
using the internet in the mid-90s, it's flopped from one puddle to the  
next. Despite a desperate need to evolve - guys, the pond is drying  
up, do try to breathe - recording industry strategy has flopped from  
one muddy puddle to the next, and a muddy puddle is quite a good  
metaphor for the latest survival strategy: advertising supported music  
which 'feels like free' to the consumer.

Flop, flop, flop. So let's take a quick tour of the puddles, in rough  
chronological order.

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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/26/paul_sanders_digital_flops/