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Commoditization Watch: A few more billion and every person on the planet could have their own individual CD.
"Gracenote Global Music Database Identifies 2 Billionth CD
Gracenote, a leader in global digital entertainment technology, celebrated over 10 years of the Gracenote CDDB helping consumers identify and enjoy digital music around the world by surpassing two billion CDs identified. The two billionth CD was by Rusted Root, a neo-hippie band, for the album, "When I Woke." Launched in 1995 as CDDB, Gracenote's Global Music Database is part of a complete content solution that enables users to identify, manage and enjoy their digital media collections. Widely adopted by consumer electronics and PC application companies, Gracenote's technology is an "essential" ingredient in the world of digital media."
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2 billion or 1 million
I think we'll end up with something like this. And if a reasonable proportion of the rights can be collected it will generate lots of money. I hope enough money will go to at least some artists to allow them to live at the middle class level or above. I think that's possible, but I also think the model of what replaces 20th Century-style mass media celebrity, which is what currently supports the small percentage of recording musicians, songwriters & composers living that well, is still emerging. Merit isn't enough to motivate a lot of people people to give a musician money -- otherwise jazz and classical musicians would be rich.
I think celebrity is a combination of sexual allure, religious worship, ritual sacrifice, and cultural resonance, all of which have so far been enabled by mass media. Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe embodied celebrity, and Madonna has studied and practiced it as a science. I think a different kind of celebrity will probably come from the digital grassroots, since celebrity is in effect an art form with the mass media as its medium, and now the medium is changing.
2 billion or 1 million
If there are 2 billion CD titles, why are there only 1 million tracks on iTMS?
Here's the "it should exist" request. I want to see a mainstream legal download service using the AllOfMp3.com model. Any flavour of encoding you want with no DRM and charged by the Mb. Charge $1 a track for the first 3 months after release. $0.50 for the next 9 months and $0.10 ever after. (for 192Kb VBR encoding). Then digitise and make available every bit of audio ever recorded. You want to bet this wouldn't make a ton of money?
So where's the project Gutenberg for audio?
and finally:
Just Say No To DRM