I like Nokia sometimes, they’re very direct about the R&D work they do and The Culture of Mobility website is a great way for them to mark their territory in terms of interests and research. i especially like some of the articles about music sharing such as this article entitled Trends: permission to play which poses a critical (yet obviously corporate) point of view of the state of music sharing at the moment:
“But ultimately, illegal downloading will most likely be eradicated with a combination of methods, perhaps the most important being education: hammering home that music is not free and artists, however wealthy they might be, should be paid for their endeavors just like anyone else.”
I guess that in my thesis I’m trying to shift the business model from music and its individual elements to the notion of accessibility and charging people to have access to certain functions through the use of tokens. I’m hoping in this way to change the paradigm of music sharing and make companies realize that DRM is actually hurting their image and their potential to accept and make their mart of the market grow because of it.