Where are the startups disrupting the music industry?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3752683
by vabole • 14 years ago
12 4 14 years ago

The music industry is often blamed for using the outdated business model in the new environment, lobbying the lawmakers and suing people instead of adapting. Then why don't we see the young internet-savvy startups taking the studios' work and doing it better? The startups that would not need to sue or lobby, but would promote the artists and let them earn money. If the contracts that the big studios offer are so notoriously bad, than why are the new artists signing them? Why isn't there someone offering the better conditions and turning artists away from the old studios?

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