Banapana » business model http://banapana.com Our Minds on Media Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:22:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 How To Put Yourself Out of Business http://banapana.com/from-its-to-bits/how-to-put-yourself-out-of-business http://banapana.com/from-its-to-bits/how-to-put-yourself-out-of-business#comments Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:35:04 +0000 admin http://www.banapana.com/banapana/how-to-put-yourself-out-of-business I’m not going to say too much about Sony BMG’s unbelievably stupid new business model—I’ll just leave it to Whatever’s excellent fictional focus group. Nuff said.

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Just a thought: If record companies are so obsessed with being in the selling-plastic-things business and DRM, why not defer to the USB album? The user doesn’t have to worry about ripping it and making sure all the tracks get named right, there’s ample room for varying album sizes, it’s re-useable, and you can have the music files in a DRM format like Apple’s fairplay AAC that attaches to a particular computer or user account. Maybe this kind of solution is too obvious for Sony. Some music groups have tried it, the White Stripes and the Fratellis among them, though I can’t figure out with what success.

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