Comments on: More Bad News For Online Music Fans: Economy Kills Fabchannel

By: Omar Kbiri

Omar Kbiri — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:29:44 +0000

Don’t like the outcome of this one bit….

We need to support initiatives like these because by them pioneering. We can look for the right solutions to the industries growing amount of problems.

By: SpiralFrog Goes Belly Up

SpiralFrog Goes Belly Up — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:46:38 +0000

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By: Reuben bloom

Reuben bloom — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:07:48 +0000

its the music industry’s business model that is flawed. It is their unwillingness to adapt to world of changing technology that is causing the problem. They are clinging to a model that can no longer make the money they need, and they are blaming everyone else. I would really love to see some progressive moves towards a more sustainable system, torrents will not just go away. I thought fabchannel was a gift from Rama, and im sad to see it close.

By: Tan The Man

Tan The Man — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:47:37 +0000

NOOOOOOO

By: Jules

Jules — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:38:04 +0000

video is still way more expensive than audio, so may be audio only is the way to go for now. Any suggestions of good sites for that?

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更坏的消息在线音乐迷：经济造成Fabchannel @ 工具及科技新闻 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:36:23 +0000

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By: tekkiegurl

tekkiegurl — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:36:58 +0000

sad to hear that…

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By: Robin Wauters

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:04:21 +0000

The lawsuits we’ve been covering, they’re pretty bad for the startups that are getting sued. But I agree there’s a lot of choice these days for online music fans.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:11:12 +0000

I have a confession to make: I had never heard of Fabchannel until now. Could this be just a part of the problem? How was it advertised?

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:28:03 +0000

@Melvin
“it’s called spam.” Of course, you are correct! But it seems that you are late on the news: “Smart Babes Anjali Sen From India” is well known by now as a shameless spammer, posting confused, off-the-wall comments on most every article on TC. Her purpose is to attract viewer to her lame blog… [desperate marketing, you know?]

By: Sunil

Sunil — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:15:16 +0000

“…. Google became… better than everyone else at MONETISING the world’s information.”

Never read such an uninformed and silly statement. Why do you write this type of nonsense?

Google started to make money when it turned itself into an advertising company. Did not make money from searches. news. etc.
Do research before posting comments, for your own credibility.

By: net

net — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:16:25 +0000

That’s too bad. However, your headline blames it on the economy? I doubt it. I’d chalk it up to the music biz / industry.

By: More Bad News For Online Music Fans: Economy Kills Fabchannel « I Am Rajendra - Watch The World With Me…..

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:17:54 +0000

[...] Posted on March 8, 2009. Filed under: Music | Tags: Advertising Industry, Fabchannel, Online Music | By Robin Wauters, Techcrunch.com [...]

By: Gert Baudoncq

Gert Baudoncq — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:09:12 +0000

Join the facebook group created to gather people and ideas to save Fabchannel.
http://www.face...uid=55050553996 #/group.php?gid=55050553996

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:29:12 +0000

I think one thing that is coming from all this is that relying on ad revenue is not now nor will it ever be a good business model

By: B. Ackles

B. Ackles — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:31:52 +0000

What was the other bad news for online music fans? I think it’s pretty good to be a online music fan these days.

By: Jeff Townshend

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:13:36 +0000

Does anybody know how to download the concert Files? I’ve had luck grabbing flv files from Youtube and pitchfork.tv and such with Safari’s Activity window. Fabchannel doesn’t want to give it up that easily.

There is a Fiery Furnaces show that I’ve watched a good 25 times. My bandwidth usage is probably what killed the entire site.

By: lyvegyde

lyvegyde — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:53:34 +0000

I am so sad to hear that Fabchannel is shutting down! I have been a HUGE fan of the site and thought that they had great concerts that were really well produced, and I loved to watch them live. It is also so sad that the archives will be shut down. I wish the Fabchannel employees the best in their future endeavors!

By: Smart Babes Are Sexy Blog

Smart Babes Are Sexy Blog — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:50:20 +0000

Yes it is sad, but I think we will be seeing a lot more of these in the weeks ahead. Unfortunately relying on venture funding for your “revenues” is not a viable business model. The battle is not just for eyeballs and attention, but perhaps most importantly for monetisation.

Take Google.

Google did NOT become a great business because they were better than anyone else at organising the world’s information.

Google became a great business because they were better than everyone else at MONETISING the world’s information.

Of course it helped that their search technologies WERE better than others, but that was not what made it a great business.

Similarly with companies like FabChannel, the game is not about just giving users a great experience … it is actually making money while doing so. And that, unfortunately, is much much harder.

From India

Anjali Sen

By: Melvin M. Tercan

Melvin M. Tercan — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:09:59 +0000

I agree with Alexander that SBASB often writes comments that are thought through and often provides a great perspective on the subject..

But.. please stop with that replying on the first comment to appear on top… it’s called spam.

If you’re that good, we will read ya.

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Alexander Brown — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:06:43 +0000

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Sweet….

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Alexander Brown — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:47:14 +0000

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By: dungiis

dungiis — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:05:33 +0000

God bless for you

By: Neno Brown

Neno Brown — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:46:11 +0000

Fabchannel live streamed the streets of Amsterdam for the P2P-Next live bittorent trial, for the swarmplayer.

Sad, maybe they will reamerge with the tribbler team.

By: ChrisATSo33t

ChrisATSo33t — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:36:22 +0000

“The management and shareholders of Fabchannel expect that this situation is not going to change during the next years.”

They’re smart.