Peter Gabriel: Digital Music Downloading's Future

securitas writes "CNN International's Becky Anderson interviews musician and OD2 online music service co-founder Peter Gabriel about the future of digital music downloads. The interview covers Gabriel's motivations in starting OD2, how technology has changed the music industry business model in the favor of artists and away from the big record labels, and where the small, independent artist fits in. Gabriel's words have weight because of his insights as both a musician/artist and a businessman who guided a digital music on demand distribution (OD2) and download service to success."

From the article...

[k4_pacific]

Peter Gabriel was quoted as saying, "I'd like to hit the RIAA with a SLEDGE-HAMMER dunt-duh. After all, I've kicked the RIAA habit, (kicked the habit, whoo)"

Re:Peter Gabriel

[balloonhead]

You pirate! People like you make the internet a bad place. The RIAA will be subpoena-ing Slashdot to get your IP with evidence like that so freely available.

Re:Only IE and Windows Media Player

[lavar78]

Internet Explorer 5.0 (or

better)

IOW, Safari, Firefox, Mozilla, Omniweb, Opera...

Yes!

[natrius]

Now I can hold up my MP3 player in front of my girlfriend's house and play In Your Eyes to win her back!

But if I actually had a girlfriend to win back, I wouldn't be posting on Slashdot, would I?