January 22, 2004
IFPI Report on International Digital Music Market
Lots of spin, but still worth a read (see here for a summary from News.com). Apparently, lawsuits against file-sharers has already started to a much lesser extent, but more are on the way.
I am quite interested in Loudeye’s plan to be the US version of OD2. OD2 makes some sense as a business model because they are servicing many different countries and thus many different markets. They were also basically the first on the European scene. Loudeye’s only going to be servicing the US, it seems, and the market is already beginning to fill up. What is the target audience for Loudeye’s service? How many more iTunes can the market hold, and how many more iTunes will people want to create? With small margins, why and how would someone be able to pay Loudeye? How much flexibility will there be in the Loudeye back end? Are they maybe going to aim at segments of the music market that are not currently served by the current, major-label-heavy offerings?
Filed by Derek Slater at 2:22 pm under General news
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