Napster's CEO on the future of music delivery

While I was out of town yesterday, Engadget ran my interview with Napster CEO Chris Gorog. Lots of reaction so far:

• 61 comments attached to the interview;

• MacDailyNews dissects the interview, with 60 or so readers chiming in;

• a dozen or more blogs

Gorog was fun to interview -- smart and savvy about the music business (an impression you'd miss if you skipped the interview and went directly to the comments posted beneath the article). Excerpt:

Gorog: The point is simply that people are going to value instantaneous access to anything they can think of anywhere anytime. That’s what they’ll place value in rather than ownership — I own this CD, I own this track I downloaded. Because in the digital world, everything is available.

So it’s really a paradigm shift for people to recognize that the music collections they’ve carried around with them on their back, all of this stuff doesn’t matter anymore. Because for a monthly fee they can have access not only to everything they’ve collected in the past, but everything they don’t even know about yet that they can still discover. It’s a very different model and extremely attractive, once you get used to it. ...