Mark Cuban discussed Chris Anderson’s new book “Free” in his post, “Free vs. Freely Distributed”. Cuban points to the canary in the coal mine…
The future of content outside of the music industry is exactly what you are now seeing inside the music industry. The music industry uses what they have learned from more than 10 years of competing with free. First they cut the size of their organizations to the bone, keeping just those they hope and pray will know best how to guide them through the world of free.
And, of course, the world of free means a glut of music. Mark may have stumbled on to a possible solution…
You get the music industry. Anyone can create any song for no cost, and they do. The problem of course is getting your music to stand out among the millions of songs available at any given moment. Its expensive. Very, very expensive. (If it werent for groupies, would the number of musical artists contract 90pct ?)
Just get rid of the groupies!
Can you imagine? It would be like one giant MySpace/sensitive singer, songwriter/death metal/rap/hip-hop/alternative/folk/white guy blues band/indie bug bomb.
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