Friday, December 19, 2003

Wal-Mart tests Internet music downloads, for 88 cents a song (AFP). AFP - Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, is jumping into the online music game with a trial launch of a service offering downloads at 88 cents a song. [Yahoo! News - Technology] 9:31:03 PM     Just heard an interview on NPR with Todd Rundgren about music on the Internet, the value of a song, albums, and how the users are now in control. Todd says that iTunes is the wrong model because it commoditizes music, with every tune priced at 99 cents. He's the guy to look to for the killer app in online music, he's always been first. I played a Rundgren song at last week's webcast and people groaned "Oh that's 80s music." What I didn't say is that's music from the guy who could figure out how music on the Internet works as an art. (And besides that, it was 70s not 80s music.) This week I played a Rundgren-produced song, and the kids liked it. He was one of my heroes in the 70s and 80s, and then later when personal computers took off I got to hang out with him in San Francisco. [Scripting News] 9:30:08 PM     Down As She Goes MP3 8:01:01 PM     Kazaa Ruled Legal in The Netherlands. DreamerFi writes "Developers of Kazaa cannot be held liable for the way people use their software, the Dutch Supreme Court has ruled. The dutch version of the ... [Slashdot] 8:47:26 AM

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