Tag: filesharing
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Why losing the battle to rip CDs is bad
Just heard the news that the recently gained right in the UK for people to rip CDs for personal use (which most people thought was legal anyway) has been overturned. Although I doubt this will stop anyone from doing it, it’s bad for several reasons – the first being that “they suggested that a tax…
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American study finds file sharers buy 30% more music not less
This study’s findings isn’t new nor the first music sharing study to find this fact out. But still the music industry says the bug eyed monster is file sharing and sues it’s most fervent fans for sharing music which actually leads to more sales, not less. This has been proved also in other digital markets…
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Denial of Service
No not talking about Twitter (although I have to say, a site that depends on Javascript for deleting or posting but doesn’t disable it in the posts is incredibly negligent and stupid. I mean, security 101 here?!? And make your site not need Javascript too!) but that following the news that the film industry has…
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Death of the single, Music Industry is dead right?
Well what with all the file sharing and like it must be hitting sales. What? No? Who says? The British Phonographic Industry? The same ones that wrote the disconnection clause in the Digital Economy Act? Fed spiked and overdramatic info to MPs that influenced the debate? And the ones that went loggerheads with MI5 and…
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going dark…
Inevitable, and given the silly responses to open P2P and bittorrent, the way it’s going…and very hard if not possible to police, and yes supports all kinds of groups including the ones you’d rather not play with (military and child pr0n, hmm) but still…publicly offline is the new online! See you there? I wonder if…
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“analogue business model in a digital era”
I love this quote from Ed O’Brien from Radiohead, about to speak at MIDEM about Filesharing: “I have a problem when people in the industry say ‘it’s killing the industry, it’s the thing that’s ripping us apart’. I don’t actually believe it is … (Pirates) might not buy an album, but they’re spending their money…