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EMI music for sale online without DRM. Of course, as pointed out by DVD Jon, EMI is the smallest of the record behemoths, and the one in worst financial shape, so it's essentially a gamble on their part. Still, it's approximately a step in the right direction (said direction being "trust your consumers; they paid for the music")

I don't think somebody who creates something should have their rights violated. Yet we have a culture in which creating something like [Danger Mouse's] The Grey Album can get you thrown in jail. That's sad. It's an astonishing, amazing piece of work that should be heard. (link)

Elvis Costello stirs up a little controversy

From c|net's RSS feed right now:

MPAA could learn from RIAA
The film industry should learn to deal with piracy the way the recording industry is--by making legal means of getting movies easier and cheaper. (link)

Hmm. Could've fooled me. I thought the RIAA was all about issuing individual lawsuits, breaking standards in an attempt to prevent disk copying, lobbying congress to shut down peer-to-peer technology...

Musician does not own back catalogue, exhorts fans to leech it. Go musician!

Current Mood: amused

Good interview on pbs.org with David Crosby, largely covering what he thinks about the music industry.

I think it's going in a tank, and I am standing on the sidelines applauding.

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: The Sultans Of Ping FC: Where's Me Jumper

Piracy! Economics! Videos! DVDs!
Guys, how about "We're releasing too much crap"? Also a quote from Jay Berman:

I think the long-term secular decline has just about come to a conclusion.

"secular decline"? Did the clergy not get on the filesharing bandwagon with the rest of us or something? (actually, I note from the dictionary definiton that the word can also mean, simultaneously,

once per century/age
existing through a century/age
long-term indefinite duration.

Which is my "something new" learned for the day.)

Current Mood: cynical

make out that filesharing is killing your business. demand legislation.
acknowledge (maybe) that filesharing per se is ok, but sharing copyrighted material is killing your business. demand legislation forcing filesharing networks to be liable for copyright.
show off some audio fingerprinting software to the lawmakers
if you haven't already done so, buy the fingerprinting company
when your new legislation kicks in, charge a massive license fee to anyone who wants to use the fingerprinting, and sue anyone who doesn't into oblivion with your new legislation

I'm tellin' ya, not buying music from the RIAA is the only way forward.

Current Mood: cynical
Current Music: Various Artists: 8 Mile

This is the absolute business: a cellphone-accessible version of the RIAA radar that works on UPC codes. Go magnetbox!

Of course, now what I want is a sufficiently programmable phone that I can plug a serial-port barcode scanner into it, blip an album in the shop, and have my phone check if it's RIAA or not. GNEE GNEE GNEE.

Current Mood: impressed

Dido's current album is really testing my willingness to stick to this whole NO RIAA MUSIC PURCHASES thing.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: U2, something remixed, and my music detector is busted

"Apple has even privately stated that they decided to use a weak form of DRM solely to get major labels onboard."

True or not, if they said it privately it's not very clever to put it in a public FAQ, now, is it?

Current Mood: cynical
Current Music: humming servers

PR vs. Reality. No word on what Dr. Dre, U2 guitar player The Edge, Alicia Keys, or Toby Keith (who?) have to offer on the topic, but it should be noted that Dre is 50 cent's producer.

Current Mood: cynical
Current Music: Mis-Teeq: Scandalous (Radio Edit)

You know, there's a fair-sized effort by many people to overturn the view that all us geek types are a bunch of freeloading pirates doing our damndest to rip off the MPAA, RIAA, and anyone else whose stuff we can get into digital format. And then the morons at Wired go and produce a page like this. Idiots.

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: U2: Even Better Than The Real Thing

Grandad sued over filesharing. I've actually got mixed feelings about this; on one hand, I disagree with the RIAA tactics. On the other hand, he's summed up a huge problem accidentally:

Durwood Pickle, 71, of Texas, said his teenage grandchildren used his computer during visits to his home. "I didn't do it, and I don't feel like I'm responsible," he said.

I think if people didn't have that attitude quite so much - not being responsible for what their (grand)kids get up to on the net - then we wouldn't have quite the same steady procession of child pornography, stalking, runaway, etc. cases.

Current Mood: pensive
Current Music: a/c

Notably, however, the decline in CD sales accelerated during the period of reduced peer-to-peer file trading. On June 15, the day the RIAA launched a subpoena campaign against file traders, CD sales were down 6.1 percent year to date. In the seven weeks since launching the subpoena campaign, the decline in CD sales has accelerated 54 percent.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: a/c

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Entries tagged with riaa

look ma, no drm

I ♥ Stephen Soderbergh

mostly for suzylou

apparently I don't live in the same world as c|net

steal this record

David Crosby on the Music Industry

IFPI blames everyone else for declining CD sales

make money fast, the RIAA way

wow.

more capitulation-in-progress

I forsee legal difficulties in your future

HP at CES

Stupid Magazine Tricks

more on the RIAA lawsuits

effects of treating your customers like criminals

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