HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSICoriginally uploaded by 4mediafactory …how can Radiohead allow people to download their album without DRM for as little as they want…and within a couple of months have the same album top the SALES charts in the UK and the US. People are happy to pay so don’t treat them like thieves… [...]
The very wonderful Kristin Hersh has just launched CASH Music – the Coallition of Artists & Stake Holders is an attempt to make music and a living outside of the conventional industry way of doing things. It’s a bold step that I sincerely hope is rewarded. Rather than selling her music she is giving it [...]
Surprise! Being exposed to more music makes you more likely to buy more music… However, our analysis of the Canadian P2P file-sharing subpopulation suggests that there is a strong positive relationship between P2P file-sharing and CD purchasing. That is, among Canadians actually engaged in it, P2P file-sharing increases CD purchasing.Intellectual Property Policy Directorate – The [...]
[Jennifer] Pariser [Sony BMG's head of litigation]…then made perhaps the most startling comment of the day. Saying that the record labels have spent “millions” on the lawsuits, she then said that “we’ve lost money on this program.” RIAA anti-P2P campaign a real money pit, according to testimony (via BoingBoing)
I have very vivid memories of standing in Beggars Banquet in Kingston and NOT BUYING the first Radiohead EP Drill because they were on a major label – and I was very suspicious of major labels even back then (1992) and doubly suspicious of a band with no (recording) history turning up on a major. [...]
When people like Prince get all arsey about protecting their copyrights and start clamping down on people sharing their “grainy mobile phone footage” I start to despair that these people will never learn. To try and claim that people sharing their experiences can in any way reduce the artistic value of a performance is laughable [...]
A big feature on Rick Rubin and Columbia in the New York Times is an insight not only into someone trying to pull the record industry out of it’s taildive but also into an industry that sees the way out of that taildive is to screw either (or both) the consumer who they plan to [...]
Kristin Hersh has posted her Thoughts On Sustainability to her blog and it makes reassuring reading…the future of an industry where the labels don’t control the artist may be a little way off but seeing someone of the profile of Kristin seriously considering a business model that involves “relying on listeners, treating music as a [...]
I find it really sad when musicians, particularly musicians who I respect, seem to misunderstand just how good things are for music at the moment. The stranglehold of the (major) labels is coming to an end and the Internet is making it easier for talent to find a market. Aimee Mann gave these responses in [...]
So last.fm have struck a deal with ugly major Sony (you know the same Sony who care so little for their customers that surreptitiously install damaging software onto their computers) – now I understand that last.fm is part of a major corporate media group and that jumping into bed with major labels was the inevitable [...]
