published a great piece yesterday about music on the net: Entertainment Execs, Fear Not the Net. Going a bit further than the article, it’s in the music industry’s best interests to pump life back into Napster or an analogous system and use all the data as advanced market research. They don’t even need to know who’s trading what through the system – they could keep it totally anonymous and still get tons of information that would help them develop new artists more effectively AND work the back-catalog more efficiently. No matter how many files were traded, there are still tons of great revenue streams that they can use to make as much or more money as they do today.
Archives for 2002
Montrealers should remember
that this Wednesday is First Wednesday, our monthly dinner&beer&stuff. This will be almost 2 years since the first one. Go to La Cabane at about 8 Wednesday night.
Take a break
and read Bruce Sterling’s Information Wants to Be Worthless, his sort-of preview of the upcoming SXSW Interactive Festival. Now. Go.
Now Live! Watch Microsoft
play “brinksmanship” with the DoJ: Microsoft CEO: State Sanctions Would Destroy Windows. Idiots. It would destroy Windows because as a direct result of the previous anti-trust problems Microsoft made it so – totally their choice, and with this in mind in the first place. They tried to innoculate themselves by intertwining the browser with the OS. They now think that people didn’t realize that they were trying this all along, and that they can now scare people with the idea. I just hope the DoJ and/or the dissenting states have the pills to call their bluff.
Brett Simmons
: Song for BBEdit. “BBEdit//I confess// I love you// You suck less.”
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