streaming media pricing
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blend blushes and reminds that he had just stated the obvious.
;)Anyways I would like to take this a bit further. Web is one distribution channel for music, but sometimes it is not the best one. You have to judge this on case by case basis. For example if you are an emerging artist then web offers you a great start, but when the demand grows it maybe wise to find other methods of distribution. Obviously you need to find ways to protect your content and for a multinational corporations it may be a good choice to keep television and radio as their only electronic distribution channels. Of course you could use DRM to protect all your content, but there are no good alternatives to MS products yet. Of course the Internet architeture is changing also and thus the cost of serving popular content might become bearable. I find it impossible to understand how some popular websites have been closed due to too high demand. It should be possible to cache content and lower the server load. I think the consumers should be able to demand this from their ISPs.
BTW. If I have lots of typos, it is just due to my 7-finger typing :)