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| From | scotthomewood@cs.com |
| Subject | Re: Apple purchases Lala.com |
| Date | Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:14:29 -0500 |
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I had a pre-interview-type conversation with Ng back when Lala was in beta for a magazine which is now defunct and it was transparently obvious it was the cash, not any sort of supposed love for music that was driving him. From the Coke-font original logo to the empty promises, Lala was a company made solely for a profit with Ng trying to ride on anyone else's back he could. Now that he has finally gotten the only thing he ever really wanted, maybe he'll leave the music industry alone.
Scott Homewood
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From: Holmes Online <bholmes_fm@msn.com>
To: audities@smoe.org
Sent: Wed, Dec 16, 2009 4:02 pm
Subject: Re: Apple purchases Lala.com
>>I have been on the ride with Lala for a bunch of years, starting from the >>point when their main business model was acting as a sort of broker for >>people who wanted to trade their unwanted CDs (I think I had about 300 >>trades). As you probably know, when that business model fell apart, Lala >>switched to basically an on-demand streaming model.
I bailed when they switched from their altrusitic model to other events (wanting to showcase radio transmissions of bands they liked) and it became apparent that their plans to compensate musicians and/or fund an insurance collective was a bag of hogwash.
>>I made the choice to pay $.10 per song to have a "web copy" of that song >>made available to me when and where I wanted it.
Different strokes, etc., but a cheap MP3 player (or these days an iPod) provides an encyclopedia of songs available anytime anywhere with no limitations to whether or not lala had a license. I found it typical that they wanted the user base to upload and create their online music library for them.
But it appears Bill Ng got what he wanted out of the deal - cash. Sounds like everybody's happy!
b
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