As I started to read Ted’s very logical but almost to altruistic post about music and iTunes all I kept thinking was of MP3.com which was kidnapped by the music industry through the courts. If the industry, courts and lawsuits hadn’t slowed down MP3.com the idea would be very much alive and well today.
Every idea that Ted outlines and many others were executed back in the late 90’s and early 2000’s by the team there. That team was led by the same person running mp3tunes.com and SipPhone, the master disruptor himself, Michael “Golden Boy” Robertson.
In the past I’ve written about Michael’s head being in the cloud, something that even today with GizmoCall he’s stayed true to. The problem here with Ted’s ideas, and with Michael’s aren’t that they are wrong. They’re not. It’s that they are just not going to be allowed by the old guard that runs an industry because they literally don’t get what doing things a different way can mean.