10/10/2007
Genuinely revolutionary idea from... the guy who runs Yahoo! Music!?
Ian Rogers, the gent who heads up Yahoo! Music, has a blog. A recent entry makes so much sense you wonder that the RIAA doesn't put out a contract on him:
The pull quote:
"I'm here to tell you today that I for one am no longer going to fall into this trap. If the licensing labels offer their content to Yahoo! put more barriers in front of the users, I'm not interested. Do what you feel you need to do for your business, I'll be polite, say thank you, and decline to sign. I won't let Yahoo! invest any more money in consumer inconvenience. I will tell Yahoo! to give the money they were going to give me to build awesome media applications to Yahoo! Mail or Answers or some other deserving endeavor. I personally don't have any more time to give and can't bear to see any more money spent on pathetic attempts for control instead of building consumer value. Life's too short. I want to delight consumers, not bum them out."
"Pathetic attempts at control." Ya gotta love it.
And lest you think I spend all my time looking for intelligent things to post here, fear not; dj empirical generously hipped me to the whole thing.