The tour's founders will continue to run the business, with the folks at Launch providing marketing and promotion. Universal became the third major label, after EMI and Sony, to license its content to RedDotNet , which purchased kiosk maker Digital On Demand several months ago. The new system will allow users to search for music, browse news and purchase CDs unavailable in stores. Sick and tired of the music industry's perceived exploitation of artists, Jim Milligan has decided to take things into his own hands. What makes this dot-com digital music business a bit different from the zillion others out there is that musicians are asked to sign a contract which stipulates that the first 1 million of their CDs will be given away free.
Consumers pay only postage.
The band believes they were dropped because of their songs' lyrics, which deal with date rape and include sexually explicit language. Instead of going gently into that good night, the fellas posted the music on their website , where fans are invited to vote on whether the band should stay together or break up. It campaign continues through the end of June. One of the great things about being a journalist is getting to meet cool people who are doing cool things. There are too many to discuss, but here's a quick shout-out to some of my favorites from the MP3 conference.