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The Downsides of Streaming Services
Friday, March 13, 2009Before the BusinessWeek.com article by Douglas MacMillan on consumers' use of streaming services as substitutes for purchasing, I was the only one (as far as I know) to point out this harmful downside to free, ad-supported services.
In December 2008, I wrote that streaming services are not a boon for record labels because of two key reasons. First, they are a poor way to monetize recorded music a...
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