Not just music but anything could be made this way. If people put their money where their interests are then you would see a lot more specialized music, movies, and books being created. Here is an interesting one about the “Giants of Silicon Valley”.
http://www.strayform.com/Propo.....html?id=48

RIAA’s monopoly was built in a time when it was too expensive for an artist to record themselves, produce a physical LP or CD, get wide distribution for it, and promote its sale. Each one of these roadblocks is now easily within reach of even my 18 year old son’s garage band.

Technology and the Internet have rendered all media distribution businesses obsolete (newspapers, book publishing, record and film distribution). Most of them just don’t know it yet.

The real cost of obtaining a track is not the pennies that subscription services charge, or the .99 cents that download services like iTunes charge. The real cost of obtaining a track is the value of the time it takes to discover a new track plus the purchase price of the track.

The value of the time it takes to find a new song that you like is actually more valuable to most consumers than the retail cost of the track. This explains why a far greater percentage of the population prefers to own the music they consume. The retail cost of loosing your music is one thing, but the time value of loosing the collection you amassed during so many music safaris is priceless.

It seems like the best solution to the collection-disappearance problem would be to offer a bookmarking feature or service that enables any subscriber to easily move his song collection to any other music platform in the marketplace. After all, nobody wants their song collection inescapably tied to one company.

The music subscription service providers only have to look at how phone number portability in the telecom industry has helped ease consumer concerns, as well as to drive new service activations.

I’ve bought music online, but I haven’t bought video online, precisely because of the DRM. So the TV companies have missed out on probably hundreds of dollars of revenue from me alone.

BTW, techcrunch’s Atom feed link for this item took me to the main techcrunch.com page, not to this item. Perhaps it needs looking at?

http://vidsonly.blogspot.com

I wonder how long before the music industry will request the list of people who bought that device…

it seemed so simple when they were on lp’s now, didn’t it?

there are too many layers as there has always been in the music industry, and as usual, they all need and want to get paid…

Michael Arrington has a great post on the perspective of Yahoo Music VP of Product Development Ian Rogers who points out that the music industry has forced Yahoo! to create unpleasant consumer experiences. His disregard for DRM even leads him to descri…

“I think the future of music really is online songs for less than a dollar.” Actually the future of music sales is any encoding you want for 10c a track. That’s about the price point where easy can compete with free.

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

Most of time, when I want to buy a CD, I always download MP3 online first and listen to it times times again, I have to make sure that the songs in the CD is worth for money.

Yahoo must did something right !

I use a Mobile IE Internet Radio web app; my Treo plugged into car stereo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq_lkSRDFck
I drive regularly up & down I-95, through underwater tunnels and the reception is great via my EVDO. I may lose it for 20 seconds, at the deepest part of such tunnels, but EVDO streaming reception beats radio and Im sure it will improve over time!

Also, have you not seen the recent news clippings of
“High-speed Net access coming to planes,” ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6717750 /) ?

Id didn’t say this would happen overnight, but it is the future!