New Arguments Against P2P: The Phony Moral Debate
“Its Illegal.” That’s the phrase the Recording Industry have been chanting nonstop for the past 5 years. It has been the mantra of...
Disruptive Use of Net: Peerflix
>I was doing some more research on that large CD Economic analysis (mentioned previously), and I came across an interesting new...
Dynamic Pricing: DVD versus CD Strategies
I’m working on a longer research note on DVDs and CDs, but this excerpt suddenly became relevant, in light of a few WSJ and NYT...
Burst.com v. Microsoft
>Since so many people have emailed me about this, I might as well deal with it all at once: Yes, I am on the Board of Directors of...
Odds & Ends
Its interesting when one of our past discussions comes back around again. Here’s some odds and ends that are just now heating up in...
DVD Sales Boom, 2004 a Record Year
Yet another new media taking names and kicking old media ass: DVD sales posted huge gains in 2004 for the fifth year running but the...
2004 Year-end Film & Music #s
The year end numbers are now out for both Film and Music sales in the US, and they are rather interesting. Each data point contains both...
DVDs continue to cannibalize CDs
OK, my last rant for the year about the music industry: Yesterday, we discussed the attempts to wring more dollars out of smaller...
Is DVD Done?
Here’s an interesting take from high end Audio mag AV Revolution: The DVD format is the most successful consumer AV media format...
DVD recorders, CDs . . .
Since we just had a little discussion on gasoline prices (Gasoline versus Crude Oil), lets take a look at some other prcies around the...