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Internet has killed entertainment business model, warns author

13 January 2009

Peter Ollier, Hong Kong

The internet has triggered a consumer-led rebellion against the “essentially dead” business models of selling books, films and music, according to an author and former Silicon Valley entrepreneur

Speaking at the Global Forum on IP in Singapore last week, Andrew Keen gave a keynote address in which he argued that the internet "has made the protection of the copy impossible".

Keen explained that, for the music industry, the internet, and in particular the increase in interactive web-based platforms known as Web 2.0, has...



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