Live, Local, And Immediate

“As other technology companies scramble to match the success of Apple’s online music store, iTunes, which sells songs for 99 cents each, a different online-music economy is emerging around the sale of recordings of live performances – often with no restrictions on how they can be played or shared.” Jam band Phish and mainstream rockers The Dave Matthews Band are two of the first big-name acts to have jumped on the live-performance-record bandwagon, and at the heart of the movement is the belief by the artists involved that the recording industry is shooting itself in the foot by trying to restrict consumer usage of available music.