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Why the Album Can’t be Saved
Famous music producer Quincy Jones wrote an open letter that appears in Billboard Magazine (and was widely disseminated by Reuters). His essay can be boiled down to call upon the music industry to “quit whining” and get to work. Although Mr. Jones is extremely successful and understands the music industry – the idea that the [...]
Music Industry Gets What it Wants – But Not the Way It Wanted It
According to stories in Europe, here the German parliament adopted a new federal law to counter file-sharing. One would think the industry would be issuing press release after press release lauding the effort of legislature. After all, they now have the ability to force an ISP to provide the identity behind the IP address (of [...]
Home Brew HD PVR Timeshifting Soon to be a Reality!
Finally the home brew PVR HD solution is available! Snapstream has pictures here of BeyondTV working from a prototype Hauppauge HD PVR. One caption reads “the red light means Beyond TV is busy making a recording off this thing.” The analog hole has finally been exploited. Hauppauge is taking orders for $250 a unit. When [...]
The Great Music Bubble of the 1990s
Do you remember how music was marketed, bought, and sold in the 1970s and early 1980s? The 1970s had over the top television shows about music like “Dance Fever” and “Solid Gold.” Radio was much better then than now, with stations that understood how to create a playlist. The 1980s had the phenomenon that was [...]
