Comments on: Oink and fixing the music industry

By: Rutger

Rutger — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:13:16 +0000

Nice points. It is indeed really about the potential of the long tail.
I’ve written about the lead user potential of communities like oink.

http://www.crowdsourcingdirectory.com/?p=76

By: Drewx

Drewx — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:01:27 +0000

Thanks for the pointer. I’ve blogged this at Copyfight (http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2007/10/30/oink_thumbs_its_nose_at_cartel_even_in_death.php)

With respect to your first point, try this sentence on for size: “There’s really no way that $4 bottles of water can compete with free.” I’ve maintained for years that the bottled-water business is the model that the music industry should be copying. We buy oceans of this stuff when there’s free tap water just about everywhere. It’s all in the image and marketing. If it can be done for water I’m sure it can be done for digital music.

By: frebro

frebro — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:09:15 +0000

Point #5 would be the community on Oink that I don’t see on any legal online music stores. The forums are overflowing with interested and knowledgable people who spend a lot of time helping you find new music, and discussing upcoming releases. That is a valuable resource that no online store could afford to keep.

By: links for 2007-10-27 (Leapfroglog)

links for 2007-10-27 (Leapfroglog) — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:22:21 +0000

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By: Bruno Figueiredo

Bruno Figueiredo — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:34:07 +0000

Running the risk of being controversial, I think that Books, Music and Films should be free on the internet. The recent Radiohead experiment showed that bands can strive with “donationware”. It seems like a poor business model, but if you think about it, there are always movies that you want to see on a big screen with good sound effects, there are albums where you want the coverart or case because of its design/ingenuity and there are always books that someone will find more comfortable to read in paper.

Just imagine how this would impact the developing nations.

By: Antonio Pratas

Antonio Pratas — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:12:06 +0000

It definitely was a huge library, and there I knew that I could find a lot of new artists that most people never heard of. If someone wanted to get to know a new band in determined genre, Oink was the place to go.

I hope that the ideas of the music labels change, a bit like Radiohead did, to understand that they will be more famous if their music is easily spread. It’s something like a graphic designer that wants to get noticed, he spreads his work publicly online, most bands don’t, how can we get to know a band if we can just hear a music?

By: xaotica

xaotica — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:09:57 +0000

i’d add a big #4 – quality. legal music sites will continue to flounder until they start offering FLAC or other uncompressed formats. it’s just hard to justify paying for 160-192 quality mp3s. (note: i’m not saying i don’t recognize the few who do offer higher quality files… kudos to them, and i’ve bought legal files from them to support it :)