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Napster Not To Blame

Posted by Hemos on from the killing-the-messenger dept.

enjo13 writes "Slate is running an article on the music industries recent troubles. It articulates exactly what Slashdot has preached all along.. that the Music industry is suffering at its own hands and has no one to blame but itself. All I have to say is... finally." There's actually been a number of pieces like this, but I think this one says it best.

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  1. Re:What is this slate.msn.com? by krinsh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've been reading Slate for many years; and often printed it before they charged a subscription fee (at one point - which I do believe was shortly after being taken over by MSN). It may be an MSN-centric publication in some ways but I've always found it to be pretty interesting. Of course, regardless of what the numbers say; and irrespectful of the fact that we ARE IN A RECESSION, it will be the music-swappers' faults this happened. Just like it was cassette tapes back in the day, right?

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  2. Re:What is this slate.msn.com? by leviramsey · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I've been reading Slate for many years; and often printed it before they charged a subscription fee (at one point - which I do believe was shortly after being taken over by MSN).

    Slate was owned by Microsoft from Day One. They only merged it into the rest of MSN a few repurposings ago.

  3. Re:What is this slate.msn.com? by nelsonal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Slate is free, they have a lot of ads, but no subscription, or am I missing part of it?

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  4. Re:What is this slate.msn.com? by Utopia · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They were free at the start.
    They had subscriptions for a year,
    Seeing their readership go downhill
    they switched back to being free.

  5. Re:What is this slate.msn.com? by krinsh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    At one point I was asked for a fee to enter parts of it; or at least to get the word-format print version which is what I'd usually do and take on the train home over the weekend (and back again on Monday).

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  6. Same old refrain by scottme · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The article's main thesis reads like the refrain from Bruce Lessig's OSCON pitch that was a story here on /. recently:
    1. Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
    2. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it.
    3. Free societies enable the future by limiting the past.
    4. Ours is less and less a free society.