Tag: industry
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Brexit Visa Chaos
Brexit has been a shit-show from the start – still waiting for the ‘Sunlit Uplands’ and all these benefits that were going to shower gold from the skies we were promised by Brexiteers and politicians. What I do have is suppliers I cannot buy from because of the VAT/Customs chaos of stupidly bringing in a…
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Who will be big in 2010? BBC’s Sound of 2010 hits the meh barrier (again)
Heard a bunch of the BBC’s Sound of 2010 on Music Week and on the wesbite, apparently ‘165 UK-based tastemakers’ worryingly, and my instant responses: The only ones I liked were The Drums who have been getting airplay already, Two Door Cinema Club cos of the Vamps influence (ditto Stornaway cos I’m a big fan…
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1337 License revoked! Licensing vs physical product
As David Jack so succintly points out in I bought a CD, not a licensing agreement the music industry wants it both ways (but not in a porn way – fnar) – to license music but then not uphold those licenses on physical media. Works even better with MPAA and co. and scratched DVDs –…