digital music is still stuck in a niche

http://midemnetblog.typepad.com/midemnet_blog/2010/01/music-industry-meltdown-recasting-the-mold.html

today's articles on the downloading etc

Alison Wenham on mp3 blogs - http://www.zeropaid.com/news/87843/music-blogs-need-to-be-regulated-to-stop-piracy/. Surely what we need is to a way of licensing the brilliant stuff that mp3 blogs do? We need to make it as easy to sell music online as it is to give it away.

Universal and Warner on Virgin Media's mooted limited/unlimited service - http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3idb0553264d55f001c23915c0f1666ebc

Ed O'Brien interview - http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-radiohead-the-music-biz-could-cure-its-ills-in-one-week/

Interview with OK Go frontman - http://mashable.com/2010/01/21/ok-go-damian-kulash-youtube/ - I liked his answer to the question "Ideally how would you like your music to be distributed?"

Spotify now makes record labels money

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7043818/Spotify-now-makes-record-labels-money.html

why we need to open up licensing (and spend less making and marketing albums)

Paul Sanders vs Bono (I'm with Paul Sanders): http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/20/sanders_bono_no/

Sharing files is an essential part of the digital revolution: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/nicholas-jones-sharing-files-is-an-essential-part-of-the-digital-revolution-1874034.html

Tom Silverman's comments on how few albums sell enough to make money in the US: http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2010/01/20/wrecking-the-record-labels-buzz/

OK Go on why you can't embed their videos

http://okgo.forumsunlimited.com/index.php?showtopic=4169

Six ways filesharers will neutralize three strikes

http://torrentfreak.com/six-ways-file-sharers-will-neutralize-3-strikes-100102/