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November 20, 2003

Music Industry Strategy

Posted by Arnold

Zimran Ahmed has thought about the issue a lot.

the RIAA has also begun to license music for various online systems, and they do not seem to be very exclusive about who they offer distribution rights to. This suggests that copyright holders do, in fact, hold all the cards and they want to commodify the distribution and hardware parts of the stack down to marginal cost so they can re-licence their content at 100% margin.

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