Andrew Dubber på New Music Strategies har skrivit ett par intressanta inlägg på Music Think Tank.

I “9 out of 10 dentists” skriver Dubber om de logiska luckorna i de båda påståendena: “fildelare lägger mer pengar på musik” och “fildelning är orsaken till sjunkande skivförsäljning”.

Clearly, as soon as you take a step back and think about it logically, so-called ‘piracy’ cannot possibly be anything more than one of a whole range of factors affecting the music industry as a whole, simply because the world is a complicated place and people are complex and interesting.

Intressant läsning. Men än mer intressant för mig, som frilansmusiker, är hans inlägg “Happy ‘Quit MySpace’ Day“.

And we put up with its broken interface, bad design, 90s technology, ad-riddled BS, and complete lack of comprehension about what MySpace is really for - for one reason alone: nobody else has EVERY FRICKIN’ BAND ON THE PLANET.

Imagine if they started a merchandise service, and topsliced $1 off each sale. [...]

Or what if they set up a publishing company to connect artists with independent film-makers, games developers, television producers, web companies and other media outlets? Or helped artists connect with brands [...]

Or any number of other things they could do if they thought for two minutes about the fact that they have EVERY FRICKIN’ BAND ON THE PLANET.

Dubber tipsar också om Music as Culture, som ser ut som ett väldigt intressant projekt!