Most people, most of the time, get their music free. And that's not a marketplace. In fact, it directly threatens the concept of the music marketplace.
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The ability to spend a million dollars on a video, maybe a million on radio promotion-- that's all dependent on people buying a 17 expression of the product. If people spend 117 of that, then all of these shoulda-been multi-platinum records are underwater. And that's what's happening.Eric Garland
It's just like if Sony went out of business. Your Sony television would still function.
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There's always going to be a need for gatekeepers who perform the service that record labels do now. Otherwise, it's just noise, pure cacophony. Most people who are not AR (Artist Repertoire) executives don't want to sort through tens of thousands of contenders to find 50 things that sound great.
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The open-source community will continue to build new, uncensored versions.
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Three to five years from now, we'll be looking at a system where you buy a digital file, and it plays on any digital device.
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And 10 billion songs per year is a very conservative estimate.
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