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On the way back from Berlin's Mlove and a very heated discussions with @SoulBizNus Rocky and Balls and others on the impact of mobile on the future of music. I was approached in June recently approached by Midem to collaborate around their upcoming event I though . In case you didn't know about midem it is probably the largest music industry event.
The rare occurence was an obvious sign telling me I had to blog about music and technology and capture some of the points discussed in both occasions.
It's true the music industry is often seen by the software world as slow and resistant to change ... Especially when it comes to DRM.
But frankly the tech industry too has its DRMs ... API rather than data access (Programmable web vs RDF website), license servers, government regulations on net neutrality / Intellectual property / citizen protection, anti-virus software, government incentives to semicos / creative industries /research, Flash vs html5, iOS vs Flash, OS X vs OS Y...