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Archive for June 21st, 2007

The Future of Music

Mark Cuban has a great article discussing the future of music on his blog. In it, Cuban discusses making music available everywhere. This is a much better plan then the RIAA’s current “sue-your-customers” theory.

I would find a manufacturer of cash machines, the ones you see in every bar, restaurant, mini-mart and retail outlet and work with them to reconfigure the machines so that they can hold a hard drive that can be updated with new songs via wired or wireless internet access and whose screen can offer a simple interface for people to select music. The consumer plugs in their SD card from their phone, or plugs the USB cable attached to the machine into their IPod or similar device and the music selected, downloaded and debited to the customers credit or debit card. Pay the machine host a commission, or a per transaction and everyone goes home happy.

Read the article here

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