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Last week suggest the industry and internet are working things out.
Editorial Paul Williams
IT SEEMS HARD TO BELIEVE that, as Music Week's Making Online Music Pay conference was staged last week, exactly 10 years had passed since Shawn Fanning launched the original Napster.
How the music industry, or more precisely the major record companies, responded back then has largely set the tone of how the outside world has perceived the business's attitude towards the internet. Namely, that it is a bad thing, out to destroy a successful industry and should be stopped at all costs.
But anyone still questioning whether the music industry is now fully embracing digital would only need to have stepped inside last Thursday's conference for a moment to be put straight.
In fact, as was noted by various speakers, the industry now finds itself leading the way among the creative sectors when it comes to trying to realise the business potential of the internet. Feargal Sharkey at the conference ...
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