Listening To: www.artistserver.com
Digital distribution of music is the future of the music industry. The days of the brick and mortal CD retail stores are rapidly changing as consumers are able to download music via the internet. Music like water, flowing freely to the consumer. Techonology is progressing at an exciting pace. The iPhone is a prelude to what, in the future, everyone will carry a Universal Media Device (UMD) which will act as their phone, music player, and any other media of which you can think. People will pay alot of money for the UMD hardware, but 20 times as much money for the information they store therein. The UMD will make downloading music via the web instantaneous and very, very easy. Music billing will be a part of the consumer's "media bundle" utility bill and people won't pay per download of a song or per listen per se. Consumers will pay a flat fee included in their media utility bill to have access to music at all times. Like water in a home. Music like water.
Like the new iPods. Radical yo. Truly a view of things to come. People still buy songs ala carte', but, in the future, people will just pay one "media utility" bill and it will include all their music downloads. Artists will then get paid via some type of system where their compensations comes from the pool of money generated from the "media utility" bills of billions of consumers. If billions of consumers all pay just a small amount, maybe $5 a month, there will be a huge amount of money generated from which to pay artists.
