“This time-compressing aspect of mp3-based music culture does not flow naturally from the technology itself—it's a result of a lot of people, at the same time, publicly failing to resist their most basic passions for acquisition.”

Frank Hecker offers the most favorable possible reading of the Emusic changes

“[W]e want to let our U.S. subscribers know that soon we’ll be adding even more of the music you want from the catalogues of labels like Arista, Columbia, Epic and RCA [to Emusic]...” though they have to revoke my grandfathered account plan to do it, charging me almost twice the $ per song. I hope it's worth it.

Epitaph Records leaves Emusic

CD Baby sells MP3s of participating artists' albums directly instead of reselling to other online music retailers for the thinnest possible cut. Awesome!

"The real issue is the blurring of lines between blackhat hacking and legitimate business."