Blog: Listening Post - Wired Blogs

The internet was supposed to level the playing field between signed and unsigned artists, giving each a way to reach fans without middlemen or kingmakers. And we might get there still. But judging from the major labels' equity stakes in MySpace Music (not to mention imeem and LaLa among others), music's future as a free economy could actually turn out more restrictive than its past, until these sites figure out how to compensate artists of every stripe fairly. The core of the problem, say MySpace Music's [...]