Grateful Dead Bans Sharing, Commits Musical Suicide
A Tuesday Tunes post: How astonishing is this: A band that built its entire reputation and fan base on freely recorded and shared...
Defeat Any DRM: piece of tape
How astonishing is this: GMSV tells of a Gartner report that claims ANY and ALL DRM schemes on music CDs can be defeated with a...
Sony issues recall for DRM crippled CDs
Sony totally caved on the DRM debacle: They issued a recall of about 5 million CDs. I am pleased to have made a contribution to...
Sony Vaio XL1 Digital Living System
Why on earth would anyone ever buy a $2300 PC PLUS a multi disc player in 2005? Wouldn’t it make more sense if the second part of...
The world according to the Sony-BMG
Hopefully, this will be our last discussion of the Sony-BMG’s debacle. I suspect you are as tired of reading about it as I am...
Sony Rootkit Morphs into MalWare (litigation to follow)
Don’t say Sony wasn’t warned: The DRM Rootkit (we first discussed it here, and it was widely analyzed here) has now...
DRM Crippled CD: A bizarre tale in 4 parts
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: Ever come across something that only gets stranger and stranger the deeper you delve into it? That was my...
Music Industry Attempts Price Increases (or Hari Kari, Part II)
for the About a year and a half ago, we noted the "Music Industry is Intent on Commiting Hari-Kari." Today, we revisit that...
New Music Business Model: Ancillary Revenues
Yesterday’s WSJ has an interesting discussion about a new music industry business model, using the The Pussycat Dolls as the prime...
Mom versus RIAA (Elektra v. Santangelo)
Patricia Santangelo, the single mother of 5 without any P2P on her PC, has decided to take on the RIAA and the rest of the music...