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Actually, one of the things I really liked about muxtape was that they weren't trying to sell you anything.

It was all about the music maan.. :)

itunes might disagree. But I agree with the principle.

"Make something people want" is a good creed - but making something illegal (or of questionable legitimency) is perhaps not a good move.

No iTunes wouldn't disagree; they don't sell the music to the users, they sell the users to the music. iTunes has a ridiculous amount of users as it's freeware, but anyone with an iPod has it installed on their computer thus it was easier for iTunes to sell music as they had users before they had the music and their dealing with the record companies would have been along the lines of "yeah we have like 200 million users, what do you want them for?"

Basing your business plan on your morals: not a great business plan.

Huh?

Huh.

but doesn't aggregation add value?

There are exceptions, youtube anyone?

Yeah the exception to the rule is "... unless you get bought by someone who can afford to lose more money than you"