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# Cory Doctorow: Why Music Streaming Will Fail
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/cory-doctorow-why-music-streaming-will-fail/
- Published: 2009-12-07T09:17:24.000Z
- Updated: 2009-12-07T09:17:24.000Z
- Description: Author and Boing Boing co-editor Cory Doctorow does not believe that streaming is the future of music. In addition to technical issues (i.e. "will it work on a plane?", "wireless. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/12/cory-doctorow-why-music-streaming-will-fail.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Streaming, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:03

Author and [Boing Boing](http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/03/broke-ass-band-cuts.html?ref=hypebot.com) co-editor [Cory Doctorow](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory%5FDoctorow?ref=hypebot.com) does not believe that streaming is the future of music. In addition to technical issues (i.e. "will it work on a plane?", "wireless companies are consistently rated the worst in the world"), Doctorow sites human behavior in an interview with [P2PNet](http://p2pnet.multibox.be/story/32077?ref=hypebot.com) when explaining why he believes that music streaming will not gain traction:

[![image from kottke.org](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20120a720fa80970b-120wi)](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e20120a720fa80970b-pi?ref=hypebot.com) "…Because collectors like to own things. Because people download music today and don’t show any sign of stopping. Because your plan to stop the chaos can’t be predicated on a massive, totally speculative shift in the behavior of the majority of Internet users if it is to be plausible."

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