Applying a Music Business Model To a Blog 43
An anonymous reader writes "Many of you may be familiar with Mike Masnick, from the site Techdirt. Beyond just chronicling tech stories for years, he's also been following various music and media industry business models as well. While he's usually among the first (like Slashdot) to express dismay at silly activities from the recording industry, lately he's been cataloging numerous success stories, like business models from Trent Reznor, Amanda Palmer, and Josh Freese. Mike and Techdirt are now taking things a step further, and wondering what would happen if they took the lessons from those success stories and applied it to a media publication: their own Techdirt. The result is 'Connect with Fans + Reason to Buy.' Check out the very special offer for the RIAA."
RIAA model (Score:5, Funny)
Here I thought he would be suing his readers.
Easy Applying Of Music Business Model To a Blog (Score:1, Funny)
Unfortunately, it's the music business model where your agent steals all your royalties and money.
Re:Bad idea (Score:3, Funny)
Why only people who link to it?
A true student of the RIAA would just start suing people at random and offering them the chance to "settle" for less then the cost of defending themselves at trial.
No, a true student of the RIAA would sue you for this current discussion. And then get a judge to slap you with a gag ord----
Re:who can afford that? (Score:3, Funny)
There are better ways to crowdsource a business idea.
True. [slashdot.org] And we're free, and worth every penny.
What almost makes more sense, if you really want to pick the brains of the TechDirt guys is to fork the $1,000 for spending one day with them (even tough I think it's only worth maybe $200).
Meh. You monetize your business model, TechDirt monetizes its business model, but our abuse ^w advice is completely free.