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Archive for July, 2007

Stop the lobbyists! oh, oops. Too late.

Posted: Thursday, July 12th, 2007 @ 10:45 pm in Commentary, Society | No Comments »

Once again, Mr. Geist has put together a very informative, and in this case even more provocative message around the US and lobby groups complaints and efforts around IP law, and more specifically music and movie piracy and markets. Please take a bit of time to watch it over at Putting Canadian “Piracy” in Perspective: [...]

How to price Net Radio and music broadcasting… a proposal

Posted: Sunday, July 8th, 2007 @ 10:08 pm in Commentary, Society | No Comments »

One of the great guys (Stephen O’Grady) over at RedMonk posted some interesting bits around the royalty and rates for net radio at: Should We Save Net Radio? The Q&A (Via tecosystems.) So I’ve got a bit of an extended thought proposal on an alternative to this morass I’d like you to consider: Tiered pay [...]

So… about the net profit bit we're skipping….

Posted: Thursday, July 5th, 2007 @ 8:00 pm in Commentary, Society | No Comments »

An interesting post across at Reuters today… CD sales drop, digital music jumps in 1st half ’07 : NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. sales of digital music albums grew by 60 percent in the first six months of 2007 but failed to offset the rapid sales decline of compact discs, according to data from Nielsen SoundScan.[...] [...]