HP to launch online music service

Sounds like big business is trying to jump on the bandwagon now and in the process kill indie music sites now and sell us more crap we don't want. I say this as a result of CNet's aquisition of MP3.com. Take over a free site to make it a pay site. geesh... I guess we will see what happens after the dust settles, I still say support the indie artists and boycott RIAA members. Back to the RIAA model eh??

The music industry's party line has been "we can't compete against free" in regards to P2P ever since napster. That was one of their big stated reasons for not getting into the on-line music market. Then the music giant, APPLE COMPUTERS comes along and shows that yes Virginia, you can compete with "free", and now everybody and their mother is tripping over one and other trying to get their pay music services up. To be honest I don't think "big business" is out to squash indie music companys. I think they just have their heads up their a$$es. Now mind you, if some of the actions that big biz takes as it rushes to market (fools rush in...) take out some of the indie competition, the boys at corporate will not be displeased. I just don't think the indie slice of the music $$ pie is big enough for the likes of Time-Warner to even notice. "Security" is becoming a four letter word in my vocabulary.