entertainment
Study: P2P effect on legal music sales “not statistically distinguishable from zero”
Yes, another study proving what people (smart, respected industry folks at that) have been screaming at the music industry for years now:
A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to [...]
Steve Jobs vs MR
So I just read Steve Jobs’ open letter on DRM and the iTunes store and I was just beginning to craft a response to post here. Then I got my Michael’s Minute email and found that MR had beat me to most of the points I was going to make. Of course, when reading these [...]
Music Industry Wakes Up? Or Not…
From Reuters with my comments:
With global music sales down for a seventh straight year, the talk at an annual industry meeting in Cannes, France, has become heated over how to develop digital sales against competition from the dreaded F word — free.Global sales are expected to be down again for 2006 despite digital sales almost [...]
RIAA Mafiaa at it Again.. DJ Drama ARRESTED for Making MIXTAPES
From the NYTimes:
In the world of hip-hop few music executives have more influence than DJ Drama. His “Gangsta Grillz†compilations have helped define this decade’s Southern rap explosion. He has been instrumental in the careers of rappers like Young Jeezy and Lil Wayne. He appears on the cover of the March issue of the hip-hop [...]
Tower Records -> Out of business
The tower records by my house is going out of business… To me it’s shocking that it still even exists anywhere. You can duplicate the entire Tower Records store in a kiosk at this point. Have digital catalogs that people can access through touch screens, and have production facilities inside the kiosk that burns on [...]
Banksy Pranks Paris
This one is hilarious… famous UK guerilla artist Banksy has pranked Paris, and good. Apparently he replaced hundreds of her albums in UK stores with his own version, complete with topless photos and his own remixes of her songs including Why am I famous?, What have I done?, and What am I for?
He has also [...]
updates, p2p revolution, bittorrent, padres
Woke up this morning to my datacenter calling me telling me they were watching my power circuit melting. Cool. So I had to go to the datacenter (my favorite place), power down 5 customers boxes (some 15), switch to a different circuit, and bring the machines back up. Of course, Murphy being the bitch he [...]
great party on 4/20
We co-sponsored the seedleSs 420 party, it was a blast. We hung a huge 8′x11′ banner off the front of the building, there was about 1100 people there going crazy, Junior Reid tore it up, basically a great night and a great event all over. Big ups and respect to Rez Khan, Carlos of Bredren, [...]
Indy Custom (Random?) Radio
Just caught Ian Clarke’s new project, Indy. In his words,
“We are just about to go live with another project I have been working on called “Indy”. Indy is designed to provide both a new way for artists to find new fans, and a new way for fans to find new music and artists that they [...]
new dj z-trip
Just listened to most of the new dj z-trip album, shifting gears. If you do not know about ztrip you are missing out. Here is some of his old stuff, live stuff. This guy is a freakishly good dj and producer. Take a second to download some tracks and check it out, I already preordered [...]
