Jason Dunn
04-11-2005, 08:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/11/sony_online_music/' target='_blank'>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/11/sony_online_music/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"You think that record companies are all geared up for the 21st century, and that the fact that online downloads will count towards the Official Chart Countdown means that they're au fait with the online future - right? That they realise that you can make a profit by continually selling a small number of digital copies of songs, because there's no cost of replication, compared to CDs - right? As I discovered while half-listening to an internet radio station the other day, wrong."</i><br /><br />An interesting article at The Register about the way the online music distribution model has changed, and <i>not</i> changed, the way music companies do their business.