Sean Parker’s Phantom Trillions of Illegal Downloads

Sean Parker’s Phantom Trillions of Illegal Downloads
  Sean Parker, the ruthless cocaine-snorting villain played by Justin Timberlake in The Social Network–also known in the real world as a successful VC and co-founder of Napster–thinks legally purchased music will never catch up to pirated downloads. He made the case at a Daily Beast conference Friday, where he contended fancifully that streaming services like Spotify are viable because they …
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Spotifriday #66 – This Week on DiS ft. Elliott Smith, Darkstar, Trent Reznor, James Blake…
Where did this week go? And how on earth have we managed to get to number 66 in our Spotify series of weekly playlists wot act like a hyperlink-laden cover mount of what we’ve covered on the site this week? Time, it really doth fly.
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Digital Music Opportunity Is Huge And Now, Says Rhapsody
There’s been some interesting back and forth in the last couple days about whether there’s any real opportunity in digital music startups. To get a different take, I talked to Rhapsody , one of the few longstanding survivors in the space.
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