Internet killed the video star.
Dot.com winner Paul Graham writes on why TV lost — computers + television = computers. Of course as much is watched as ever, but the products (you and me) are getting entirely too uppity for business...
View ArticleThat Tyson guy? Eh, I could take him.
Liberation Music really don’t like people using their music on YouTube. So when some guy used a recording they owned, they got it taken down. Then he claimed fair use. But they decided no, they weren’t...
View ArticleIndustry links.
So how much is music actually worth? Spoiler: nobody knows. Universal Music Hijacks YouTube Videos of Indie Artist. Because of course they did. How the majors renewed their grip on music: how to...
View ArticleIndustry links: YouTube, RIAA mathematics, Jay-Z’s Tidal.
Google to the record industry whining about YouTube: bugger off, we’re making you a fortune here. A few worked examples of how the record industry synthesizes its completely BS statistics. Jay-Z’s...
View ArticleLinks: Dr Dre and Apple, Alan Vega, Dangerous Minds.
iCompton: Dre as Apple product. I missed this one from Elizabeth Sandifer last year, but it’s shockingly timely with Apple’s ridiculous DRMable headphones now on the schedule. Dammit, this is the sort...
View ArticleLinks: The record industry is still suicidally stupid, torrented MKV at 11.
Music identifying app Shazam finally turns a profit! Not from commission on iTunes sales, but from renting their sound recognition technology to advertising agencies. (If you don’t have a login,...
View ArticleDiscopedia: a dance music search engine.
Discopedia is a search engine for dance music. You can enter a band, musician or song name and it will come back with a list of possible matches it finds on YouTube. You can then play the track from...
View ArticleRecord labels want money YouTube doesn’t earn, just because Google has some...
Much as I did a few weeks ago, Techdirt notices the bleedin’ obvious: removing albums from Spotify’s free tier will directly promote piracy. They also quote from a report which explicitly documented...
View ArticleFollowups: Free money from YouTube, windowing and piracy, totally not Pono.
I noted previously how the record industry demands money from YouTube that they know literally doesn’t exist. The new phrase is “closing the value gap” (translation: your job is to come up with a...
View ArticleWarner does a deal with YouTube. The record industry is outraged!
Warner has signed a completely expected deal with YouTube, because they do great business with each other and fully wish to continue. The music industry is hilariously outraged that Warner did the...
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Links: Venue archaeology, winning fair use on YouTube, M’era Luna, I wrote a...
Did you ever wonder what was under the Fly By Night Club in Fremantle? You can fight a DMCA on YouTube and win, even quoting others’ videos. Collected videos from the M’era Luna industrial festival....
View ArticleYouTube stream ripping: the record industry is being thick again.
The record labels are rolling in money from Spotify, and trying to make out to their artists that it’s somehow Spotify’s fault they’re not passing much of it onto them. How to keep the artists...
View ArticleLinks: Andrew Hickey “Monkee Music,” Paul Morley and Propaganda, Kim Deal,...
Andrew Hickey decided not to wait on a Kickstarter after all, and has just released Monkee Music, second edition. There’s an ebook, a paperback or a hardback. It’s about twice the size of the first...
View ArticleHow to make Spotify suck less than YouTube for streaming.
YouTube streams more music than Spotify, Apple Music and every other audio streaming platform combined — at least, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. There’s...
View ArticleYouTube Music: your move, Spotify.
The how to fix Spotify article was literally a year in the assembling, because I was in the throes of the book I won’t name, and Rocknerd went on the back burner while I did the thing that made...
View ArticleLinks: Why the Rolling Stones suck, “fake artists,”’80s remixes of current...
Why The Rolling Stones Are Not Very Good by Andrew Hickey. And you know, I can’t say a word of this is incorrect. Certainly answers for me the question “why could I never get into this stuff?” —...
View ArticleLinks: EBM is trendy, managing the Rolling Stones, Swiss modernist post punk,...
EBM is apparently the fashionable thing in dance music this year, or maybe next year. Maybe this will translate to sales outside Germany! Futurepop, let alone VNV Nation, doesn’t get a mention....
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