Archive for the ‘Acquiring Music’ Category
Lyrics Sites Being Forced Offline
I have to file this under the “are you all idiots?” category:
I can’t even begin to rationalize how this helps the music industry, but I can think of many ways that it hurts the industry. This is the old way of thinking, still at work. When will we get some new, hip and “IN THE KNOW” people working in the music industry?
Being able to find lyrics online FOR FREE helps music listeners connect to songs in a way that we weren’t able to before the internet. And being able to connect with the songs is good, right? Isn’t that what gets people to buy those songs, to begin with? I understand the copyright arguments, I do, but I believe the value of having such sites far outweighs that.
What do you think?
Music fans looking online for guidance
Nearly eight out of 10 consumers are turning away from professional music reviews and looking online for guidance when buying CDs or downloads.
The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality
Great article from David Pogue at the New York Times:
The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality
Rock star says piracy battle is lost
Great article From The Register.
Major record labels are still fighting the piracy battles of 1997 according to a leading rock musician and digital rights activist.
Blur drummer Dave Rowntree told OUT-LAW that they should have realised in 1997 that their battle was already lost.
“If you turn back the clock when all this stuff was still on the horizon, the key realisation to have made was that we had lost the war already,” Rowntree told OUT-LAW Radio, the weekly technology law podcast. “That’s what I was going round telling everybody 10 years ago, saying ‘the horse has bolted, there’s no way of undoing what has been done already, the only thing you can do is to try and turn your business around so that you turn this into a plus rather than a minus’.”
Read More here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/15/rowntree_music_piracy/