The fun never ends!
11:42:04 PM   []

I said: "We'd love record labels to just go away. They're great for a Britney Spears, but I don't see them providing a lot of benefits for smaller acts." (from The Time article). If you disagree I'd love to hear why.

Needless to say the article did not run in the Canadian edition of Time. Do they not realize that *I AM* Canadian content? Hopefully Gary can pick me up a copy or 5 to see if the results of that 5 hour photo shot made it in.
5:44:32 PM   []

It's a shame that people can't actually visit the Fairtunes site and send money like they could in the good old days. Live and learn.

Time for my nit picks with the story:

• Where's John!? He was that 'buddy' in the car, he quit his job, he wrote the code, it was his basement we crashed in. It's disappointing he got written out of the story.
• Some people feel guilty but we didn't start the site because we felt guilty. We started the site because we wanted to pay the musician and there was no system to do so.
• Did the reporter actually try and send money? Because if he had he would have seen that the new owners have disabled sending money and changed the name to Musiclink. (But really, it took us 3 weeks to write Fairtunes.com, how hard can it be for the new owners to needlessly re-write the site in PHP??)
• No Emergent Music coverage
• Doesn't mention that we're University of Waterloo students

Though is there a picture accompanying the story? (Email me if you've seen the paper copy of the magazine).

Time has another longer story: Burn, Baby, Burn.

This coverage is pretty love-hate. I mean it's great to be in Time and all but Fairtunes just isn't ours anymore. I'd much prefer to see an article detailing the failure of John and Matt to offload the assets in a responsible manner.

Fairtunes has been covered by Time Magazine before though I never saw it. Fortunately you can search back issues but unfortunately you have to pay. So I just paid $2.50 to find out that the previous Fairtunes mention consisted of nothing more than this:

Fairtunes.com
www.fairtunes.com
Pangs of conscience? Fairtunes provides an easy way to send money to the artists behind your MP3s

(For future reference: That first mention was on October 02, 2000 in the 'Gallery of Stuff' by Adam Cohen). Fairtunes was also mentioned in the Time Digital article Where To Go... (Nov 2000).
9:41:57 AM   []