“The Civil War is Over” - Davi Pakman, eMusic

Big names on this panel - Yahoo, Sony, Warner, AOL, and my personal favorite…eMusic. The ‘uproar’ and ‘chaos’ has settled a bit (it would seem) and now we’re all talking about business models and everyone trying to gain the upper hand in the market. Everything and nothing has changed…but the “what do we do?!?!” mentality is still there…minus a few exclamation and question marks. This is potentially better - as long as the industry doesn’t get stuck in paralyzed and impload because of it. Though, that might not even be so bad…if the folks that try it again the next time learn…at least a little.

Lots of questions about subscription services and ad supported music downloads…related to that, I came across a good breakdown (however biased it most obviously is) on Hypebot of the difference between two such services - We7 and Spiralfrog.

DMF is doing something new and interesting here - text a question to the panel. Here are a couple:

“Didn’t the lala experiment fail cuz warner was charging too much 4 licensing/royalties?”

“If the real game in being a success as an artist is promotion rather than artist development, can a record label really compete with starbucks or verizon?”

At times distracting, but also super interesting because the pointed questions people sometimes tone down when they have to get up and use a microphone are being asked. Very good.