Vad ska vi göra I kväll?

Maybe it is the long winter evenings, but the country of Sweden is currently having an enormous and disproportionate effect on the world's music industry.

The answer to the question, 'What shall we do tonight?' is clearly, 'Let's revolutionise the way people consume music.'

The country's only real claim to world-wide musical fame is ABBA but a new generation is causing a major stir through the application of web technology.

The Pirate Bay is still happily signposting users to bit torrent files despite the recent high-profile court case andSpotify is about to secure funding from the Far East and launch an iphone application.

Although firmly at the opposite end of the legitimacy spectrum, Spotify, like Pirate Bay, is blowing a typhoon through the traditional music retail world.

For the consumer, Spotify is a no-brainer: on demand online free music. The only distraction for the free version being the odd advert, so it's a bit like commercial radio only with fewer Simply Red numbers - unless that floats your boat of course!

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