Music Industry Spinning DRM Tales
Brace yourself for a DRM lie of biblical proportions: Velvet Revolver, a supergroup formed from members of the bands Stone Temple Pilots...
P2P? No, F2F!
clevercactus share is a variation of a P2P. I predict that the RIAA and the rest of the music industry will have fits over what may be a...
Why Cutting CD Prices Went Off Track (HINT: blame it on the...
If a price cut falls in a forest, and nobody hears it, will it have any sort of economic consequences? Apparently, not: WSJ: “The...
CD prices drop slightly
Here’s a nice little surprise: “The average retail price of full-length CDs fell to $13.29 in the first quarter of...
Follow Up: The Way the Music Died
Tonite, I watched the Frontline show, “The Way the Music Died.” It was kinda of interesting, but all told, rather...
The Way the Music Died
Be sure to catch the Frontline show tonite: The modern music scene was created in 1969, at Woodstock. Half a million fans, dozens of...
CDNOW Preferred Buyer’s Club
I’ve long held that the music industry’s artificial price maintenance is the source of a huge amount of their problems. I was...
Falling music sales blamed on file sharing (look for no other...
As someone who closely follows the intersection of technology, media and entertainment, I have been terribly impressed with the...
Whats Wrong with the Music Industry in One Long Sentence...
Let’s review our plot so far: We have an industry that is afraid of technology, its senior spokespeople lie to congress, they use...
The Honorable Al Swift, Pirate?
EFF points to testimony by former Congressman Al Swift, who is a long standing home recording hobbyist: “I think I was in my first...