Song lyrics

OK, I am going to back off piracy today and flag up Jarvis Cocker’s comments on lyrics in The Telegraph. Just yesterday I was having a discussion with someone who contended that in French music lyrics are much more important (hence the chanson, and new chanson) and in Anglo-American music (with a few exceptions) the music/sound/rhythm [...]

MTV anti-piracy ad sucks

Look at this pathetic ad from MTV against downloading illegally. The chasm between what the ad is saying and the worldview of the intended audience make it more or less useless. The comments on the linked page pour the appropriate level of scorn upon it.
 Now there is nothing wrong with MTV speaking out on digitial [...]

The US piracy Watch List

Apparently Canada has been added to the IAPC watch list (Billboard), joining illustrious piracy havens such as China and Russia. The fact that the US has this list is somewhat a joke since it is itself one of the biggest digital content piracy melting pots. Among the biggest threats to US content are the number of [...]

Nonsense from Coldplay?

 So lots of people downloaded the free single from Coldplay last week. EMI claimed that the total number of downloads was 4 times the combined sales of the Top 40. Well great. There are always some great stats about how free stuff outperformed paid for content, just ask the IFPI! 
It gets worse. They are offering buy [...]

Dandelionhood

http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2008/05/cory-doctorow-think-like-dandelion.html