It's been ages since my last post, so apologies, but I have been unbelievably busy with work and have not had the time to empty my mind onto my blog for a while.
Just a quick thought on the MySpace announcement that it will allow unsigned bands to sell their music as downloads. A nice PR story for the social network, and followed by the Arctic Monkey's winning the Mercury Prize I am sure there will be a rush for the service. However, without any kind of DRM, which I am not sure is being added in, and with the record industry finally getting it together with DRM and pay for downloads for more reasonable prices, a deal like this seems a little like a step back.
Yes it may be initially a good source of revenue for unsigned bands, but it will not make the big-boys happy to see such a big site not using DRM and they certainly won't get involved. Still, it might finally put to bed all the questions over whether bands that are 'discovered' on MySpace are already backed by record companies or not.
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