Spotify is in danger – dreams of the music-listening freedom crushed!
If you haven’t heard of spotify it’s because it hasn’t even made it to the USA yet. But overseas it has been praised as the Obama of music startups – our one true hope to music freedom! Okay, well that’s overdramatic. But whatever.. Say it ain’t so, spotify. (and hey, can you throw me an exlusive lisence?)
Here’s my post on the techcrunch page:
I think ultimately the only way to break through this muck is to start with the next generation of young musicians. We need to offer musicians basic services to run their own business and control their own content rights (like we have done for every other long-tail small business on the internet). Then the next generation of artists will have no interest in signing contracts with the labels. In 5 years the current contracts will expire and all musicians will jump ship. Problem solved – The labels will be starved of new talent and they will lose their control. So far reverbnation is the only decent thing i’ve seen that is trying to do this. Myspace is sadly outdated. Anyone want to join in a startup to make this happen? Cheers -
-Thinksketch
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