Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
Tower Records is going out of business. It turns out that in the 21st century, shipping little plastic disks to brick-and-mortar retail stores is not a very lucrative way to distribute music. I expect we’ll be seeing more announcements like this one in the years to come, as the Internet cannibalizes 20th century music distribution and promotional models.
Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.
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