Posts by Simon Grigg
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and re you're sky's fallen comment, perhaps you could use the same argument to convince shops to remove video surveillance. I find it annoying when I'm in the pick an mix section and see a camera looking straight at me. not that i'm wanting to 'pirate' their non drm goodies, why are they treating me like a criminal.
I'm confused? How does the camera stop you eating the sweets when and how you want once you've paid for it? DRM does exactly that.
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Simon, I miss the pea and carrot conversations.
history, I think Blake..or at least one hopes so at least on one level
Checked out those Virgin Blue flights yet?
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Having a legal and reasonable business stand point isn't enough it seems.
Nope it's pretending the sky has fallen in when it hasn't.
They're being all smilie and no invasive to get their foot in the door
I don't think 'they' have quite the all pervasive muscle they might think they have. The slow inevitable death of DRM and the reaction to the incredibly stupid Granny-suites are evidence of that. The people do still have some muscle of their own, it just needs to be flexed correctly.
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RIAA is more than 3 old fucks round a table these days though
But not a lot more despite the pretensions (BTW there are 4 majors not 3). However they still account for some 60% of all music sold worldwide (but not, I'd be pretty confident saying, listened to) and even more in the US.
That informationweek story is an admission of earlier incompetence more than anything else. More wild flailing....
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that's so old school of you to think of the music 'industry' in terms of what happens to major labels. aren't we well past that now?
Rob, it was you who posted the letters RIAA. That is the old school.
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christmas is over pops, speak in english :)
Depends where you are in the world. Here in Indo it lasts until the next major holiday. They know how to celebrate (and here in the land of 200m Muslims, know how to do Christmas decorations with somewhat more flair than I saw in the homeland).
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RIAA taps ISP's to fight downloading
RIAA is slowly collapsing into a who the fuck cares what they think status and the DRM flag has playing a fairly obvious part in that collapse. As one industry voice said to me over Xmas, the day when Warner Music is purchased by some Ukrainian Gas company for 50c a share ain't that far off.
Meanwhile the musical sky has not fallen in and you'd better a grinch to suggest that the quality and range (and availability) of popular music is as healthy as it's ever been.
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you think people go clubbing for music
[putting on concerned father voice]..hell most kids in clubs these days are so trolleyed they have no idea exactly WTF they are.
I'm jealous.
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But I do recommend an article in this morning's Press, by David
My feelings towards Aaronovitch are somewhat tainted by this piece from a couple of weeks back bathed in half truths and revisionism in an attempt to justify what is still unjustifiable.
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interestingly this isn't a failing when applied to nightclubs where its considered par for the course to treat your customer like cattle, cue em in lines, search em, treat em rough, soon enough people accept it as part of going out.
I guess it depends on yer nightclub. We always tried to treat folks with respect, provide them with quality entertainment at a good price and searched no-one. Worked for us for almost two decades. I guess that's all people are asking of the recording industry.