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This is the link: the sheer horror of marketing the stuff

"Pop music has become so irredeemably shitty that the so-called generation gap is all but gone."

I must admit, it's great fun playing the hideous noise music of the 1980s around the resident teenage emo brats and having them look at me like I shat in their ears personally. Nice to know I've still got it.

Whitehouse. As offensive musically as lyrically. The all-time champion leasebreaker!

http://rocknerd.co.uk/?p=1368

My house has teenagers in it. They are actively interested in music, read Kerrang! (which is now a land of sensitive boys with floppy fringes ripping off bad Metallica solos) and are in every way the desperately desired target demographic of the music industry in general. They get music off YouTube. They use it as their jukebox. Quite a bit from official label channels.

The kids don’t listen to radio, or any similar controlled stream fed to them by a consumption model. The dilemma is how to advertise the music without people being able to hear it first. Or something. Crupnick suggests creating a form of “artificial scarcity.” Let me know how that works out for you.

“We never really made the digital transformation,” says Crupnick. No shit.

Apple is evil, but the music business is evil and stupid. If you were going to pick someone to make Apple look good, you couldn't pick better villains.

Do the record companies realise they're competing with free? Apple realise this. Raising the prices will drive away customers who do have another option. No-one buys music because it's the only way to get it, anyone who buys music these days does so because they want to.

BitTorrent: because fuck you, Hollywood!

Apple is evil, but the music business is evil and stupid. If you were going to pick someone to make Apple look good, you couldn't pick better villains.

Do the record companies realise they're competing with free? Apple realise this. Raising the prices will drive away customers who do have another option. No-one buys music because it's the only way to get it, anyone who buys music these days does so because they want to.

BitTorrent: because fuck you, Hollywood!

Customers hate, loathe and despise DRM. The customer knows there's a DRM and they're not bloody happy. What's a marketer to do? Lie.

I look forward to them trying this one in the UK - there's Trading Standards to contend with if they do.

High definition video is a DRM-clogged thicket and statistically negligible. It's all in low-res these days - YouTube and so on. That's because convenience wins, every time.

Someone must be making a fortune telling executives that consumers will buy what the execs want instead of what the consumers want.

It is vitally important that people write letters - actual paper letters, with a stamp - to their MPs, Congressmen or equivalent. MAKE NOISE.

It is vitally important that people write letters - actual paper letters, with a stamp - to their MPs, Congressmen or equivalent. MAKE NOISE.

They forgot Nokia, Samsung, LG. No movies on mobile phones? EPIC FAIL.

DRM is mathematically impossible, customers loathe and despise it more than any industry person could comprehend, and it never actually works.

But they're so addicted to control they'll keep begging people to take their money to sell them yet more snake oil.

Never another download or unpaid viewing! Not ever! This time! For sure!

No airtight DRM is possible (and Spore's already been cracked). But content producers are so obsessed with absolute control that they'll beg people to take money to sell them snake oil. Of course, this always works. Yeah.

Others speculate the real target of game DRM is to kill the second-hand market. But, of course, that does no good when the competition is the cracked copies. Piracy: The Better Choice.

Airtight DRM is physically, mathematically impossible. But the content industry's lust for *complete control* is so overwhelming they go out begging for people to sell them snake oil. More thoughts here: http://rocknerd.co.uk/2008/09/13/step-right-up/

What do you mean, no rewinding?!