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If Warner Music Group hired Jim Griffin just to provoke discussion about new business models, it's already gotten its money's worth. Portfolio.com started things off with a piece about Warner signing Griffin, a vocal critic of the major record labels' approach to file-sharing, to a three-year contract. He'll be the guy drawing up and selling Warner's plan to create the ultimate subscription-music service: for about $5 a month per subscriber, ISPs could enable their customers to download and share an unlimited number of MP3s. It's an idea Griffin has been floating for several years, and it meshes nicely with former Warner new-media guru Paul Vidich's unsuccessful campaign to include some form of free music in the price of Internet service. Among other observers, Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng liked the idea; TechCrunch's Michael Arrington did not. No, really. TechDirt's Mike Masnick gave it a thumbs down as well.
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