Bertelsmann to Acquire Columbia House
Funny, for a business that many people think is dead, we see both an IPO and a Merger in the same week ! AP is reporting that German...
DC Appeals Court Strikes FCC Anti-Piracy Tech Rules
Appellate Court Strikes FCC’s Anti-Piracy Rules May 6, 2005 10:57 a.m.A federal appellate court Friday invalidated federal...
Despoiling CD artwork
Who are the warning labels on CDs geared to? Consider this for a moment, if you will: Isn’t warning the people who...
What’s On Jesus’ iPod?
> "You know it’s the big 60GB model, loaded, flawless and gleaming and radiating a strange liquid ethereal glow and couched...
Billboard is adapting
"The [Music] business no longer revolves around record labels as much as it once did."-Tamara Conniff, Billboard executive...
from Net to Mainstream: Geoff Byrd
Wanna know why the RIAA and major labels are so concerned about P2P and the internet? It makes them irrelelvant: "Portland,...
Phony Moral Debate and P2P, part II
> We previously looked at the absurdity of the Recording Industry or the RIAA making moral arguments about consumer behavior. Lest you...
The fruit of Fiona’s labor
Hard to imagine that we first discussed the Fiona Apple’s Extraordinary Machine way back on March 7. Today, we see another...
Economics, and the Clash of Technology and Copyright
Berkeley professor Hal Varian notes in the NYT that MGM vs Grokster case is only "the latest installment of a longstanding battle...
The ongoing shift from Analog to Digital
Chris Anderson’s Long Tail discusses the Mainstream Media’s meltdown. Readers of the Big Picture have seen this argument...