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# David Pakman: “We Need A Digital Locker.”
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/david-pakman-says-we-need-a-locker/
- Published: 2010-06-08T07:20:00.000Z
- Updated: 2010-06-08T07:20:00.000Z
- Description: David Pakman was the long time CEO of eMusic and now works in venture capital. In a post on his blog Disruption, he recently made the argument that We Need Digital. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2010/06/david-pakman-says-we-need-a-locker.html]
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**David Pakman** was the long time CEO of **eMusic** and now works in venture capital. In a post on his blog[Disruption](http://dpakman.wordpress.com/?ref=hypebot.com), he recently made the argument that [We Need Digital Lockers More Than Ever](http://dpakman.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/we-need-digital-lockers-more-than-ever/?ref=hypebot.com). 

“We now live in a world where we have **multiple devices on which we want to consume various forms of media**: TVs, desktop PCs, laptops, smart phones, tablets, eBook readers, and more coming," he says. "Anyone who wants to distribute media to us has a hard time providing it to us in a way that lets us – the consumers – choose how, where and when we want to consume it.” 

Given that TED recognized the members of their book club may not want to receive a huge package full of hardcovers; they decided to make it so the books on their list could be downloaded onto Kindles. In realizing **how “broken” this process really was**, it got Packman thinking that perhaps it shouldn’t take the mediation of Amazon to grant him access to the eBooks on that list.

That maybe, he writes, “**We need a locker. We need an open, authenticated location in the cloud where we can store, access, receive, organize, and share our digital media. Media is too fragmented online**.” Suppose he didn’t want those eBooks on his Kindle. That way, he could receive his media in the locker instead of it being downloaded onto a local device.

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His thinking: “**Google might be the best company to deliver this service**. They have the added benefit, at least for now, of not being a retailer of media." To which he concludes, “Yes, some content owners **hate this idea** because they instead want to **charge me** each time I access their content (think about how many times you pay, one way or another, to see a movie). But now, more than ever, we need a digital locker in the cloud.” 

**Do you agree with David?** 

**What the digital locker mean for music?**