Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Apple's Jobs Kills LaLa

Steve Jobs buys the competition and then kills it.

Lala an incredibly popular music site is being laid to rest.  Steve Jobs is shutting it down a mere four months after purchasing the streaming music service.

Many blogs, like mine, used this service as a legal way to post music.  One could listen to every song on Lala once for free.  (Unless you uploaded your collection and then the music was available 24/7.)  This is going to force the hand of a lot of bloggers that promote music to illegally post music.  "Force" is obviously too harsh of a word, but I'm sure a lot of bloggers aren't going to just quit what they are doing just because of this change.  It's the nature of the beast.