The AllOfMp3 model proves that an easy to use low price service that sells what the customer wants can compete with free. P2P maybe free but it’s not without it’s cost in effort. And people will pay money to avoid that effort and get a reliable predictable product and experience.

I still dream of an entirely authorised AllofMp3 like service in the west fiollowed by a project Gutenberg like effort to put every bit of released audio ever up on the service. Mainly because there are deleted back catalogue albums from 10-40 years ago that I still want and simply can’t obtain anywhere.