On: I started a one-man biz that's beating VC-backed startups

[Animats]

It's Craigslist for music. Low overhead. This could do to the music industry what Craiglist did to newspaper classified advertising.

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The music industry still produces/mixes/masters music.

[Animats → overcast]

No, they don't. That's all outsourced. The music industry "labels" are mostly marketing and funding operations. All the steps of music production are available to anybody.

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Right, which is part of the industry. Who exactly is paying for all of that expensive studio time? The broke artist?

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I can see how they would dominate music meta-distribution but it does not seem likely that they would get into anything further.