Future of [Music] summit 2006
I've listened to two of the panels from the recent 2006 Future of Music summit, "Cashflow: Revenue in the digital age" and "What's wrong with music". Both had a lot of good points and went to show that there's still a consensus of confusion regarding how to react to the changes technology is forcing on the business of music, and digital content as a whole.
Nothing new in the state of Denmark. Next year will be different.
A funny quirk in the summit's delivery of their content: you can't download the full videos- you need to use some crappy streamer that won't pre-load provided by one of the sponsors, and it takes about half again as long to watch them due to inefficient buffering (I'm at work, so bandwidth is NOT the problem). The video aspect is pretty superfluous too- I'd like to find some audio downloads for the panels.
- It seems that people agree that Napster 1.0 go it right- people want "free" [music].
- Artists need to get paid. Basically, everyone agrees that it's only right for someone to pay the artists something, somehow. No one is sure who should pay them, how much, or how.
- The [music] industry is going to need to change or die. The change probably won't come from those embedded within it because they stand to lose too much thorugh change, and radical changes might require an unmediatable process.
Nothing new in the state of Denmark. Next year will be different.
A funny quirk in the summit's delivery of their content: you can't download the full videos- you need to use some crappy streamer that won't pre-load provided by one of the sponsors, and it takes about half again as long to watch them due to inefficient buffering (I'm at work, so bandwidth is NOT the problem). The video aspect is pretty superfluous too- I'd like to find some audio downloads for the panels.