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title: What would an alien think of the modern media business?
date: 2006-07-11T21:44:15Z
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[Application Architecture for the Enterprise: Support Your Local Minutemen!](http://scottmark.blogspot.com/2006/07/support-your-local-minutemen.html "Support Your Local Minutemen!")

“There are obvious historical economic forces at work, but if the mythical alien landed and looked at this situation, wouldn’t he/she/it think that media would be the first leveled commodity in a globally networked market?”

What Scott said. How absurd I can’t download his suggestions from eMusic because of rights issues. We can digiitize everything sure, but check out all those barriers to participation.

The Web drove down the cost of a PC radically, through Dell.com, but music today costs more than it did ten years ago. Go figure.