Off: Free & Music & Chris Anderson

[Jonathan Jarrett]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

> Wired has an excerpt from the new Chris Anderson book (FREE: The Future of a 
> Radical Price) which is fun reading, particularly the bits about piracy and 
> marketing and money-making in the Chinese and Brazilian music biz.
>
> <http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2009/08/features/free.aspx?page=all>

 	What, *that* Chris Anderson? The one who did the Scylding 
production and so forth? :-) As for the article, well, yes: the only 
quibble I might have is that even pirate CDs do have a physical component 
which is rarely as good as the original. I do get that mostly people 
aren't buying the artwork but I think the author kind of ignores the fact 
that whereas for Gucci bags etc. the original is still more desirable this 
isn't the case with music except for a few. There's something there that 
wants separating out I think. But as to the economics, I don't see why it 
shouldn't be right... Interesting to watch, though I guess you'll see it 
first? Yours,
 	      Jon

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