I thought I would post this as a response to that Courtney Love speech from 2000.

Someone asked, well, it is 8 years later, what is the music business like now?

Well, I have two links for you. One is an MP3 of a radio program interviewing Jenny Toomey and Peter DiCola of the Future of Music Coalition where they discuss the current politics in the music industry and how iTunes and 'illegal' free downloads has effected sales, as well as owenership and radio consolidation, payola. localism and diversity.

http://www.will.uiuc.edu/media/mediamatters070128.mp3

From Jan 28th, 2007

For more updates, check out their website.

http://www.futureofmusic.org/
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