The prosperity of cloud music services: Who is the victim?

itunes and Google's cloud computing music services have been around for years, but depending on how quickly things should be, throw out some questions to discuss cloud music. A number of research agencies have recently sung a hymn to cloud music services, even saying they will have a 95% growth rate and 160 million subscribers (and mobile music) by 2016.

That's a bit of a http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/36256.html because Europe and America's biggest paid subscription, Spotify, now has only 1 million paid subscribers, accounting for 15% of active free users. (the ratio is already very high), and the second is the veteran paid subscription music service Rhapsody (750,000 paid subscribers) of real.

So who will be the main beneficiary, and who is the main victim, in the coming boom of cloud music services?

1, the beneficiaries are undoubtedly users and service providers? Users spend less, but gain more access to online music, thanks to the Internet music service providers that have long fought with the record companies.

2. Will artists ' interests be harmed? Does cloud music mean that people no longer buy digital albums frequently, or even reduce the frequency and quantity of CDs purchased?

3, then this phenomenon to appear in the country, may be a few years in the evening. Because we have many years ago in the European and American music users enjoy the unlimited free online music.

4. Will the performance market be further activated? CD can not sell, the digital album is not good to sell, and cloud music is not allowed to have how high, then go to the concert. Is that so?

5, will it stimulate music around the market? (with article 4th)

When the cloud is no longer just for storytelling, it can be done.