blogs.zdnet.com — ZDNet blog talks about Sean Fanning's new Snocap service that allows artist to sell unportected MP3s through MySpace. "commerce-enabling MySpace for music sales could position indies for an interesting offensive against the entertainment establishment. And, with no DRM, it's definitely a step in the right direction."
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lidflipperJul 27, 2006
I'm sure this will get taken the wrong way, but I think DRM could be a GOOD thing. I think there should be a secure, open source, DRM product that artist could use. This way the artist could sell direct to the customer. While DRM is looked at as something bad, I would look at DRM as something that could be the final nail in the major label's coffin.P.S. Weed files are kinda like this.
Closed AccountJul 27, 2006
Indie bands are just as bad as commercialized junk. It's just different ends of the scale.On one end you get a very popular s**tty act that sounds like everything else that's s**tty.On the other, you get a bunch of s**tty garage bands of talentless people who play coffee houses who try to sound like the s**tty popular acts, or who get by with the same tired covers.People somehow think that indie > more commercial acts, but the truth is there are just as many s**tty boring indie bands with nothing unique to offer just like their more popular counterparts.
pirilampoJul 27, 2006
It's Shawn, not Sean, Fanning.
mustevalJul 27, 2006
It's not so much that there are a higher percentage of good indie bands (which may or may not be true, depending on what you define as an indie band) as that there are many, many more of them, and it's easier to filter out the crap.
spinchangeJul 28, 2006
awesome...as if napster hadn't already cemented Fanning in the "internet history books"This is terrific idea...I do hope MySpace doesn't kill it.
dunstdunstAug 22, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://myspacemusiccode.co.uk">http://myspacemusiccode.co.uk</a>