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The only iron law here is the one too obvious to write a book about, which is that the digital age has so transformed the ways in which things are made and sold that there are no iron laws.

21 Nov 08

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14 Nov 08

Radiohead’s In Rainbows: A Look at Anti-Marketing in the Music Industry

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The RIAA sees file sharing as mere copyright infringement but pundits fail to understand that file-sharers are music fans, first and foremost. Some of them are far more willing to support independent ventures if you understand or reach out to their community.
Look beyond commercial side of all ventures and embrace your audience before everything else. Especially if you are someone who believes in the value of what you are offering to the entire world.

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11 Nov 08

Shirky: Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content

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09 Nov 08

Digital Productions: Music is Expensive, Copies are Free

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I think the main reason people are finding it hard to figure out how much to charge for MP3 files (variable? higher? lower?) is that they shouldn’t be charged for at all.
Rather than the tragedy those brought up with copyright imagine this to be, it has its benefits to musicians in the digital domain. Freely copyable music provides free reproduction, free distribution, free promotion, and thus builds up the size of the paying audience.
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- So, the musician’s new slogan is effectively “Get this one free, buy the next one”.
  
  In more words: “The recordings currently freely downloadable from my website have been paid for by my keenest fans. I invite you to join them in commissioning future recordings.”

07 Nov 08

Beyond Money

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Reinventing Money Thomas H. Greco Jr.

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31 Oct 08

The Inevitable March of Recorded Music Towards Free

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2007 is turning out to be a terrible year for the music industry. Or rather, a terrible year for the the music labels.

The DRM walls are crumbling. Music CD sales continue to plummet rather alarmingly. Artists like Prince and Nine Inch Nails are flouting their labels and either giving music away or telling their fans to steal it. Another blow earlier this week: Radiohead, which is no longer controlled by their label, Capitol Records, put their new digital album on sale on the Internet for whatever price people want to pay for it.
Users will be encouraged (even paid, as radio stations are today) to download, listen to and share music. Passionate users who download music from the Internet and share it with others will become the most important customers, not targets for ridiculous lawsuits.
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- ith P2P networks you don’t really know what you are getting until you download it. It could, for example, be a virus. Or a poor quality copy. Many users will be willing to pay to avoid those hassles. But as long as BitTorrent exists, or simple music search engines like Skreemr allow users to find and download virtually any song in seconds, they won’t be able to charge much.

24 Sep 08

better_than_free - Kevin Kelly -- The Technium

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how does one make money selling free copies?
When copies are super abundant, they become worthless.

When copies are super abundant, stuff which can't be copied becomes scarce and valuable.
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- When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied.
- In a real sense, these are eight things that are better than free. Eight uncopyable values. I call them "generatives." A generative value is a quality or attribute that must be generated, grown, cultivated, nurtured. A generative thing can not be copied, cloned, faked, replicated, counterfeited, or reproduced. It is generated uniquely, in place, over time. In the digital arena, generative qualities add value to free copies, and therefore are something that can be sold.
- Eight Generatives Better Than Free
- Immediacy -- Sooner or later you can find a free copy of whatever you want, but getting a copy delivered to your inbox the moment it is released -- or even better, produced -- by its creators is a generative asset.
- Personalization
- Interpretation -- As the old joke goes: software, free. The manual, $10,000.
- Authenticity -- You might be able to grab a key software application for free, but even if you don't need a manual, you might like to be sure it is bug free, reliable, and warranted. You'll pay for authenticity.
- Accessibility -- Ownership often sucks. You have to keep your things tidy, up-to-date, and in the case of digital material, backed up. And in this mobile world, you have to carry it along with you. Many people, me included, will be happy to have others tend our "possessions" by subscribing to them. We'll pay Acme Digital Warehouse to serve us any musical tune in the world, when and where we want it, as well as any movie, photo (ours or other photographers)
- Embodiment -- At its core the digital copy is without a body.
- Patronage -- It is my belief that audiences WANT to pay creators. Fans like to reward artists, musicians, authors and the like with the tokens of their appreciation, because it allows them to connect. But they will only pay if it is very easy to do, a reasonable amount, and they feel certain the money will directly benefit the creators.
- Findability
- A zero price does not help direct attention to a work, and in fact may sometimes hinder it. But no matter what its price, a work has no value unless it is seen;
- Rather, these new eight generatives demand an understanding of how abundance breeds a sharing mindset, how generosity is a business model, how vital it has become to cultivate and nurture qualities that can't be replicated with a click of the mouse.
- In short, the money in this networked economy does not follow the path of the copies. Rather it follows the path of attention, and attention has its own circuits.

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Musicians can prosper in the age of free music « Interactions

Radiohead’s In Rainbows: A Look at Anti-Marketing in the Music Industry

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Beyond Money

Reinventing Money Thomas H. Greco Jr.

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