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)- May 30, 2002 Just as Clear Channel has a monopoly on American radio Ticketmaster has a monopoly on ticket sales. Check out Dave Marsh's article on Ticketmaster's Stranglehold over Music & Politics where he examines Ticketmaster's new cap 8% cap on 'fan club' tickets (which don't have those up to 60% convenience fees tacked on). Also check out Nancies.org to see how this affects an act like Dave Matthews Band.http://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/05/30.html#a1426 (Untitled)- May 30, 2002 Objections to the proposed tariff increases pdf.http://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/05/30.html#a1425 (Untitled)- May 30, 2002 Reuters is running an article For Movie pirates, it's full speed ahead which says: Viant, a research company tracking Internet piracy, on Wednesday estimated that between 400,000 and 600,000 film copies are illegally downloaded daily on the Internet, up at least 20 percent from last year. But if you double the number that Doc points to last time someone made up an alarming figure like that then it means there's 2 petabytes being traded a day. That's A LOT (250 bytes2) (i.e. too high to be...http://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/05/30.html#a1423 (Untitled)- May 30, 2002 Gord Downie during Grace Too from Live Between Us: I was raised on TV, like so many of you I see around me. Nothing to live or die for. No religion, too. The same can be said about Radio. Today's Slashdot's article on Homogenized Music points to an excellent Washington Post piece, Mega Hurts which peers inside the great Clear Channel brain washing machine who's job it is to turn us into culture-less sheeps. All this leads to a common criticism of Clear Channel: that the company has slowly...http://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/05/30.html#a1422 (Untitled)- May 28, 2002 Stereophile: Sony & Universal to cease CD production in favor of Hybrid SACD the record companies have decided that the CD copy-protection schemes tried out in the last few years are lost causes, and are turning to the well-protected SACD. Yeah, I always said the CD was dead.. But really, are people going to want to replace their cheap CDs with expensive SACDs (Super Audio CDs) $23USD a pop! Nevermind the fact that no one owns a SACD player.http://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/05/28.html#a1415 (Untitled)- May 27, 2002 Darryl: Appealing To Greed In Digital Music Distribution (A Proposed Model). Revenue from the fees collected for each download are distributed as follows: Copyright holder(s): 50% Service: 25% Person(s) who served the song: 25% It smacks of Mojonation who have of course moved to the hopefully more profitable p2p enterprise backup (I can hear John laughing from here). It also makes me wonder how much time Darryl has on his hands at Quarry Integrated Communications if he's penning this..http://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/05/27.html#a1410 (Untitled)- May 26, 2002 Re: Payola On Pho Mark Cuban remarked that radio should go to a GoTo.com bidding placement model where every morning a member label would upload a song and start bidding for placement on the morning drive. Highest bidder wins.http://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/05/26.html#a1407 (Untitled)- May 24, 2002 On EM, member profile pages now feature a 'views' column so you can see how many times people have viewed a revision of a recommendation (note: a view is only counted if the viewer is logged in so it doesn't log unlogged-in views). In a day or two the number of views for a revision will be a link and will click through to more detailed info. Here is my member profile.http://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/05/24.html#a1404 (Untitled)- May 24, 2002 Newsforge: New violators of the DMCA Reuters, Yahoo.com, CNN.com, dozens of other publications, and us In yet another example of how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act could trample on the First Amendment, Reuters may have violated the U.S. law by describing in a story this week how Sony's "copy-proof" protection for CDs can be defeated with a magic marker. Telling someone to draw on their CD with a pen could mean you'll spend the rest of your life in jail. Pretty whacky!http://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/05/24.html#a1403 (Untitled)- May 24, 2002 Transcripts of the pre-hearing conference held yesterday in Ottawa by the Copyright Board of Canada for the CPCC's Proposed Tariffs. Hopefully someone will post a summary because I'm not reading a days worth of transcripts!http://blog.mattgoyer.com/categories/digitalMusic/2002/05/24.html#a1402 |