Remember how I was dumped by the City Paper because I kept harping on the RIAA’s effect on local music? Well, the editor sent out this e-mail in prep for the Year in Music issue:
From: Mark Athitakis [mailto:mathitakis@washingtoncitypaper.com]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 11:57 AM
To: Recipient list suppressed
Subject: CP’s Best of Music 2007
Hey Folks,
We’re smaller than [...]
Here is a super good and super quick explanation of what the law is for music sharing and the consequences of RIAA victories and tactics. Ignore at your own peril.
Also tagged Huffington Post, intellectual property, Internet, law, Music, TechGiven the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) screaming sensationalism of piracy’s effect on sales, it’s surprising how little noise the latest Neilsen SoundScan sales figures, especially those related to rap/hip-hop, generated. It is also interesting that while rap/hip hop sales are plummeting countrywide, the local scene is growing so strongly.
SoundScan’s year-over-year report revealed a [...]
Cop out of a post, but there’s just too much goodness:
75 percent of support calls for Deutsche Telekom’s music service are DRM-related
David Byrne goes my way and argues labels ought to use music as a loss leader for merch and ticket sales
RIAA loses/wins Consumerist.org’s worst company showdown
I have not made the time to write up a post on this, so here is just a quick bit. The linked-to article is about how the RIAA’s contractor for delivering royalties to artists is not doing their job. The company claims they can not “find” the artists, which include Public Enemy.
It probably is not [...]
This is a quick (cheap) post listing some cool music news:
Juliana Hatfield is taking the lead of ditching the music label’s pricing schemes by asking for (PayPal) donations based on what you DL and share. Plus, she’s offering her back catalogue for DL from the Web site. They come in 192kbps mp3 files; not bad, [...]
Wheels are falling off, but the RIAA doesn’t care:
- “DRM and Democracy” (not new idea, but something that needs to be kept in mind)
- Russia’ WTO membership held up due to online music download site; this is old news but media outlets just picking up on it now
- DRM deemed unreasonable to consumers
- Incompetence of [...]
I began writing a massive rebuttal to research suggesting piracy inflates ticket prices (via /.; BBC article for background; PowerPoint link; research article on this page), but didn’t follow through. Still, within the research is some interesting data. Here are some charts taken from a PowerPoint presentation delivered to the RIAA.
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