When a good time turns around, you must Wippit…
Posted by Simon Harper on September 4, 2008
The Guardian’s digital content blog is reporting that the music store Wippit has closed down. It made its name selling DRM-free music long before the major labels caught on, although I only began to use their site when Danny Baker’s All Day Breakfast Show podcast was sold exclusively through it. When that series of podcasts ground to a halt, many were quick to blame Wippit (read the Candyman’s side of the story, and former Wippit head honcho Paul Myers expresses his take here), but it’s quite a shock to learn that it has ceased to exist.
So where are you downloading your music from? And do you think we’ll start to see other online music stores shutting up shop too, unable to compete with the muscle of the market leaders? I’d like to know what you think.