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Listed below are comments made by blinddrew between Thursday, 24th July 2008 and Monday, 13th October 2008.

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Is music winning the digital war? 12:36pm on 13 Oct 2008 @compactdistance. 7 Digital are the people to go to, they now have DRM MP3s from all the major labels and a lot of the minor ones. Lots of different price points including regular free download promotions. Definitely the best we've got at the moment.
BPI v ISPs - who's won on music piracy? 1:32pm on 24 Jul 2008 One of the big errors here is the idea that the BPI represent the whole of the music industry. Closer to the mark would be that they represent the industry side of things not the musicians who are actually producing the work in the first place. They don't represent me or any of the many musicians i know. Their actions are stifling the very market that i'm get into. How does that help the artist or the consumer?
The mainstream music industry is trying to use protectionism to enforce an outdated business model. Guess what, that won't work. They are beginning to wake to this and some of them are coming up with subscription ideas and the like, but they have to realise that the whole model needs to change. The internet is an open forum and there are plenty of talented people out there, i think ultimately it will mean less money shared between more artists. So we will have fewer megastars (no great loss i reckon) and fewer industry people (also no great loss) but more musicians and more music.
If the BPI et al actually got their heads around this and worked towards this end then they'd have a lot more support.

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