I know I’m a little late weighing in on this (I’ve been out of commission for the last couple of weeks) but I’ve read all of the coverage and I can tell you one thing for sure—the labels won’t sue Amazon over it’s new locker service. Why? It’s very simple—money. Like in legal fees....
Read more »
The guys at Torrentfreak do a terrific job of covering the torrent and p2p scene. I’m always amazed at the stories they break and the excellent writing. And if I understand it correctly, they do it in their spare time when not at their day jobs. Last weekend they broke another story that I...
Read more »
I want to officially welcome Elio Leoni-Sceti, Ronn Werre and Sylvia Coleman of EMI to my little site. I was in London a couple of days ago with a friend and we just happened to bump into the three of them and I was introduced. They told me that they were avid readers so...
Read more »
Here’s a really good one for you. Last week EMI sales reps started making calls to many if not all of their small accounts, mostly independent mom & pop stores, to tell them that they would no longer sell them product!!! Were these accounts bad payers? Nope. Would they not stock catalog or new...
Read more »
Many journalists have written about the lack of a business model for Twitter. It seems to boggle a lot of minds that Twitter has become so big and yet to make a nickel. In fact, many question the real usefulness of Twitter, finding the whole concept of Tweeting rather stupid. Remember when Stephen Colbert...
Read more »
The other day Billboard Magazine published an analysis on the effect of variable pricing using Nielsen SoundScan data on February-May sales of hits and a sample of popular catalog songs. They found that “while variable pricing made sales volume decline, higher prices compensate for that to create more revenue”. They note that results vary...
Read more »
God I know it may be getting old, but EMI just never fails to do stupid stuff to keep jerks like me interested. This time, they’ve started their own HR merry-go-round. Maybe musical chairs would be a better metaphor. A friend in London was telling me a crazy story. Everyone knows that EMI has...
Read more »
Much has been made about the new subscription service that Virgin Media is launching this coming December. And the timing of the announcement, the day before the Digital Britain Report was released, was no accident. That report, although mostly focused on broadband penetration, suggested that warning letters and “technical solutions” from the ISP’s be...
Read more »
According to a new study released yesterday, file sharers in the UK couldn’t care less about getting warning letters from the ISP’s. They would, however, stop illegally downloading if their net connections were cut. Some pretty drastic stuff, no? The study was commissioned by Wiggin, one of the top media and technology law firms...
Read more »
