On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.comwrote:
Online distribution doesn't favor having a lot of middle men, certainly not a lot of _profitable_ middlemen...
I've yet to see much evidence of that. Online distribution seems to love middle men as much as any other distribution, and obviously _profitable_ middlemen are the ones providing the greatest benefit. (According to Wikipedia, "iTunes accounts for 70% of worldwide online digital music sales".
That said, online distribution seems to love *different* middle men. That perhaps is more the problem ASCAP is having.