Matt Goyer: Digital MusicMy thoughts and beliefs on digital music were formed and shaped by my experiences as founder of Fairtunes Inc. a company dedicated to providing an alternative compensation mechanism for artists.(Untitled)- April 13, 2002 George Scriban: Price fixing by the Record Industry has caused CD slowdown. 2001, the year that the RIAA's been trying to make the "Year of the Peer", saw the largest average price increase since the price-fixing began (around $.62 per CD).http://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/04/12.html#a1256 (Untitled)- April 11, 2002 ClearChannel is buying the House of Blues and the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Garageband.com may be resurrected sometime soon (by an anonymous investor). And yesterday the Globe had a story on the man who brought us $200 concert tickets. Napster also today laid off 30 people.http://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/04/11.html#a1252 (Untitled)- April 11, 2002 Wired: Are Ads a Gateway to Illegal CDs : Gateway store locations will begin hosting one-day seminars, starting Saturday, to teach consumers how to download music and movies, then burn them on CDs. The tech industry is a $600 billion dollar industry. It's going to roll over the established music business without a second thought.http://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/04/11.html#a1251 (Untitled)- April 10, 2002 Music from TV Commercials. I've seen this before but always forget about it.. Not that I actually watch TV though.http://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/04/10.html#a1243 (Untitled)- April 10, 2002 Supposedly there is a Gateway radio ad that ends in "..tax, shipping and handling not included. OBEY MUSIC COPYRIGHT LAWS" And us iPod owners know they come with a Don't Steal Music sticker. (Unfortunately it's small and not as cool as I thought it'd be). But instead of these doom and gloom messages of 'Don&146;t Steal', 'Don't Pirate', 'Obey the LAW', that chastise the user wouldn't it be better to promote the message of 'Support the artist' We should steer the user towards doing..http://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/04/10.html#a1242 (Untitled)- April 9, 2002 On Pho (a who's who of digital media mailing list) there are people who want to put people like you and me in jail because the record industry fails to provide us with the products we want. This drives me absolutely over the edge. Do they seriously believe they can put 5-100 million people in jail Do you think even Beck has legally purchased all the MP3s on his iPodhttp://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/04/09.html#a1238 (Untitled)- April 8, 2002 Partial lyrics to Melissa Ferrick's song 'e-mail' (full lyrics): Five million dollars Ya throw it against the wall And if it doesn't stick Watch everybody point their fingers at the artist Ten million copies sold Hey kid you're a hit But at 10% You know that's 90 for them Plus the hotel rooms they destroyed While you were singing your heart out at SXSW SXSWhttp://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/04/08.html#a1231 (Untitled)- April 6, 2002 Scary news from MSNBC: Ticketmaster enters scalping business Ticketmaster plans to launch &147;dynamic&148; pricing, which could allow fans to bid for concert tickets rather than sleeping in a line overnight to be among the first to get a seat. Further down.. But critics say Ticketmaster, the leading ticket distribution system in the U.S., already has too much power and shouldn&146;t be allowed to enter so many segments of the market. Economically I understand why it should be this way..http://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/04/05.html#a1227 (Untitled)- April 5, 2002 Digital Mass: Bertelsmann wants Napster "Our solution now is to completely take over Napster. We want to buy out the original shareholders," Thomas Middelhoff was quoted as saying in the Die Welt daily. "We have made them an offer, because we believe that our strategy is the right one for future of the company."http://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/04/05.html#a1224 (Untitled)- April 5, 2002 CNET: Dion disc could bring PCs to a standstill. Old news but still.. What the hell are those record execs smoking They should be damn happy someone bought their CD instead of trying to break that person's listening equipment!http://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/04/04.html#a1221 |