This post will focus on Chapter two in The future of the Music Business
One of the first things that is talked about that I find interesting is the debate of whether ripping cds to your computer for personal use is legal. Gordon writes that the recording industry doesn't want to fight it because they feel it would alienate people (pp. 26) which I completely agree with. Not to mention, it would be next to impossible to police it, as well as, if you can prove you have the CD, and are just ripping it to play it on an mp3 player, what is the harm? You still paid money for the stuff. As well as, no one makes portable CD players anymore, so pretty much you have to rip the CD if you want to listen to it!
The rest of the chapter looks at how webcasting has changed and the laws relating to that...There were several interesting comments about Pandora and Last.fm and how they were small and what were called narrowcasters. I wonder if that has changed since the book was published as Pandora has exploded since then. It was only still a small but popular site when the book came out (in 2008) but now it has blown up.
For future reference and bloggers out there. Type your stuff in word or notepad doc and then move it over. I had this huge long post and Blogger ate it and only saved the first paragraph...
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