RIAA v. The People: Two Years Later
From the EFF: It’s been two years since the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) started suing music fans who...
Pixar vs. Disney: Discuss
The opening of Chicken Little this past weekend — Disney’s first fully computer-generated full length animated film...
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...
T-Heads Brick
Mrs. Big Picture asks me last week what I want for my birthday (tomorrow), and for the first time in my life, I do not know. Between...
V-8 Ford Blues
In 1961, when this terrific Mose Allison disc first came out, Gasoline was 19 cents a gallon and Ford was doing well as an automaker. 44...
Building Excitement
A rather surprising acknowledgement from Billboard: The back story of Fiona Apple’s first new album in six years,...
Why Can’t I Buy Liz Phair’s Cover of Mother’s...
I like Liz Phair. I love the Stones. I really, really like covers. So when I learned that the soundtrack to Desperate Housewives had Liz...
Fiona Apple CD almost here (but should we care?)
Here’s an example of P2P filling an economic niche not being satisfied by the Labels. The New Fiona Apple CD (previously discussed...
Incentivizing Your Customers to Steal Your Product
Bob Lefsetz explains to the major labels why they are either incompetant business people, or just plain ol’ dumb: It’s this...
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...