>>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