The Dream Is Over: Music Labels Have Killed Their Digital Future
I came to this conclusion myself about 6 months ago, after Dalton Caldwell spoke at a YC dinner. I realized it was basically hopeless to start startups that touch label music, because even the ones that seem to be succeeding (in the sense of not being sued out of existence) are only allowed to live so the labels can suck investors' money through them.<p>But by creating a startup-free zone around themselves, all the labels are doing is hosing themselves, because they won't have startups working to develop whatever would have been the new ways of delivering and using label music.  They've created an anti-platform.