http://www.technovia.co.uk/2009/10/the-rise-of-the-super-middlemen.html Ian Betteridge on Macs, mobiles, and technology Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:45:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.technovia.co.uk/2009/10/the-rise-of-the-super-middlemen.html/comment-page-1#comment-2852 chrislunch Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:04:14 +0000 http://www.technovia.co.uk/?p=2453#comment-2852 <p>And Spotify's model <em>requires</em> labels in a way that downloading tracks didn't. Unless some kind of non-profit payments clearing house that actually works at scale and yet can cope with individual acts as clients suddenly pops out of nowhere.</p> And Spotify’s model requires labels in a way that downloading tracks didn’t. Unless some kind of non-profit payments clearing house that actually works at scale and yet can cope with individual acts as clients suddenly pops out of nowhere.

]]> http://www.technovia.co.uk/2009/10/the-rise-of-the-super-middlemen.html/comment-page-1#comment-2851 Lee Maguire Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:27:52 +0000 http://www.technovia.co.uk/?p=2453#comment-2851 <p>I've been refering to them as über-middlemen (überMittelsmänner?).</p> I’ve been refering to them as über-middlemen (überMittelsmänner?).

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