CBC news is reporting that HMV, the largest chain music retailer in Canada, will cut prices from 20 to 33 percent on music across the board, with back catalogues from popular artists potentially shedding $10 dollars a disc. Of course CRIA is blaming piracy for this apparently tragic bout of consumer friendly adjustment, but as [...]
Buzz band. How about we all put this term to bed? There’s nothing that invalidates the contents of a press release more effectively than the use of this label. The bullshit detector just hits 11 at first sight.
For the sake of argument let’s say that the term’s actually appropriate — The act in question is [...]
Industry uberpundit Bob Lefsetz has lost me as of late. Somewhere between his knee jerk iTunes metadata revolt (four years too late there) and his current love-in with new country I began to loose faith. All the power to him if he really wants to slobber over Keith Urban, but I doubt that’s why [...]
There’s a fair amount of rustling in the music industry bushes these past few weeks. Nothing out in the open, but definite evidence that something is moving among the foliage, hidden in the underbrush. Firstly one of the kids facing the RIAA Gestapo is very publicly fighting back, in many ways trying to simply legally [...]
Following up on this, by the 29th of September I received an email from the “SONY BMG CD Technologies Settlement Administrator” with links to my Dead 60s and Thelonious Monk downloads. From a technical perspective, the links to the downloads are hidden behind a CGI script that takes a hashed key parameter. The hash is [...]
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