Music leaves the record-label middleman · Proposed air date:
Dr. Dave calls bands selling downloads directly and asking listeners to pay what the music is worth a change whose historic importance may take time to become clear. He and Evil Steve work through the vanished costs of discs, printing, stores and label intermediaries, then ask why established music companies cannot build a flexible model instead of damaging the product to control copying.
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