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вЂњThey completely were ahead of every curve. вЂњIt felt like they were from the future,вЂќ says Orla Lee-Fisher, who was head of marketing for Virgin Records UK at the time of DiscoveryвЂ™s release.

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But the idea of a website where fans could go to download music, some two years before the launch of iTunes, or a digital fan club three years before Facebook, was almost unheard of. The idea of the fan club had been knocking around for decades. To say that the Daft ClubВ вЂ“ Daft PunkвЂ™s online music service / fan club, which launched with Discovery вЂ“ was ahead of its time, then, is to severely understate its importance. CDs were slipping but were still bringing in lots of money, so there was no rush to speed up their irrelevance.вЂќ So it was down the agenda in business meetings. Legal downloads (on iTunes) did not happen until 2003 in the US, 2004 in Europe, and so digital was mainly seen as something that cost a lot to do вЂ“ websites were costing tens of thousands to build, as not many companies could make them вЂ“ but did not bring in money.

вЂњThe really big heads were actually awake to what was going on, AIM had set up RightsRouter, Beggars and Ninja Tune were really doing a lot digitally etc. вЂњThere were plenty in the industry caring about digital then ,вЂќ says music business journalist Eamonn Forde, the author of The Final Days of EMI: Selling The Pig. Digital was part of the music industry conversation in 2001 but the continued health of the business meant that genuine action in the field was conspicuously thinner on the ground. 1999 may have brought the peak of the global recorded music business, but 2001 was no slouch, bringing in $23.4bn in revenue thanks to the bloated CD market, a number that is still far ahead of where the music business is today. At its height, Napster had just 26.4m registered users,В a thirteenth of SpotifyвЂ™s user base today and a tiny fraction of the people who bought CDs at the time.ДЇor all that the music industry fretted about Napster, the business was still in gluttonous boom territory in 2001, when Discovery hit the shelves. But downloading a song via dial-up was such an expensive pain in the technological bottom that few people, other than university students, really bothered with it. But it wouldnвЂ™t make a leap into the wider public consciousness until several years later, when telcos started to market heavily to the still-fresh internet public.Д®arly 2001, coincidentally, was also whenВ Napster reached its peak, two years after its launch theoretically brought filesharing to all. In the US, early adopters caught onto the technology in 1999, with broadband reaching 4% of households in 2000. Many of the people who accessed the internet did so in public libraries or universities, often queuing up for an allotted half hour that would go past oh-too-quickly, as the next person in the queue looked nervously over our shoulders.Д«roadband, on the whole, was a thing of our dreams. In 2001, when Discovery was released, there were about 458m internet users globally, or 7.6% of the worldвЂ™s population, with the vast majority of these on slow and unreliable dial-up connections. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.вЂќвЂ“ Arthur Schopenhauer Short Circuit вЂ“ Discovery, Daft Club and the demise of the music industry

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WeвЂ™re very happy to publish this exclusive extract below вЂ“ and you can order the full book here. BenвЂ™s excellent new book, Daft PunkвЂ™s Discovery, is being published this Friday, 3 September вЂ“ a вЂњhomage to a fascinating, troubled beast of an album that casts a huge shadow over the 21st Century.вЂќД¬hapter 5 of the book covers Daft Club, the French duoвЂ™s innovative online fan club which was launched alongside the album in 2001, and helped pioneer online music in a pre-streaming, pre-iTunes era.

If you read our Sandbox guides or our country profiles, then youвЂ™ve read the work of long-time Music Ally writer Ben Cardew.

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