Monday, December 04, 2006

The Internet Killed The Radio Star

I remember the last time I listened to music on the radio -- it was the day Clear Channel banned John Lennon's "Imagine" from the airwaves in 2001. Six years later, people are starting to accept the fact that we can listen to what we want to listen to here on the internet, and the RIAA can't stop it by suing music fans. The Transmit conference in Vancouver, Canada, last weekend discussed themes about the future of music:

...music fans are slowly but surely regaining control over the music industry, and hearing music the way people did 30 years ago - purely by recommendation...

Read about it on 24hrs and canoe.ca.

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