iTunes represents an interesting case due to the way that it straddles legal and illegal music. The iTunes music store illustrates that people will still pay for music, even single songs--a fragmentation of the traditional album in order to make music even more of a commodity, easier to circulate in the postmodern capitalist circuit. But it's also clearly a device for playing illegally gained mp3s, bound up with the very popular but much criticized (by the entertainment industry) "Rip. Mix. Burn." campaign.
[via The Mediaburn Radio Weblog]
Posted by johndan at March 30, 2004 06:06 PM
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