How high will Microsoft fly? Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

MSFT 478.52

-2.8%

Dec 10 3:59 PM EST

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: JC Jaros who wrote (50457)	10/3/2000 7:57:19 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) of 74651

JC - My older (college-age) kids are also into the music scene - my daughter has her FCC license and does DJ stints on the alternative rock station near her campus. They believe that the future would be a model where a small "pay per use" fee (maybe pennies per download) would be paid directly to the artists by the users, using some "invisible" model (like the way the phone company charges for long distance today). This "cuts out the middleman" - since the distribution companies would then not add any value and would not be needed to get the product to the end users. Given the fact (which I have not verified) that the artists receive only pennies for each music revenue dollar, this would give the artists MORE money, not less, and make the music cheaper to end users. If a couple of college kids can see this, surely the people in that business can see it too.

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next