Filed in archive Commentary by Jordan Grodecki on June 30, 2008

An anti p2p throttling company has today released statistics on quite how much of US internet traffic is taken by P2P; and it's a lot! Supposedly it accounts for 44%; almost HALF of all internet u...

Music Downloading - should it be free?

Filed in archive Commentary by James Koopmann on June 20, 2008

A semi-interesting article: Music Downloading - Now and in the Future offers somewhat of a simplistic remedy to the pirating of music on the Internet. They offer up that musicians should give their mu...

GTA IV leaked....

Filed in archive Commentary by Jordan Grodecki on April 25, 2008

The highly awaited Grand Theft Audo 4 has been leaked onto bittorrent from oldschool sceners 101, who have been out of the "warez" scene for years, but made a return for one of the biggest...

Digital Music to wipe the floor with CDs soon?

Filed in archive Commentary by Jordan Grodecki on February 22, 2008

A new analyst's report (oh how we do love them), has claimed that by 2012 digital music sales will have surpassed CD sales. This distresses me in a number of ways, firstly because, I personally ...

Digital Music Sales up 40%

Filed in archive Commentary by Jordan Grodecki on January 28, 2008

The IFPI has just released it's report for music sales through 2007, and it is showing massive gains for the sales of digital music, up a massive 40% on the last year. Countries like the US are...

TVLinks to make a comeback?

Filed in archive Commentary by Jordan Grodecki on January 8, 2008

After the copyright cronies shut down TVLinks, a site that purely linked to material hosted on other servers, such as DivX's Stage6, many people were left lost, struggling to find a replacement ...

Japan likes P2P too, unsuprisingly.

Filed in archive Commentary by Jordan Grodecki on December 22, 2007

In yet another one of those rather predictable surveys about P2P, it has been revealed to everyone that, Japan, a modern, technology filled country, has embraced sharing with open arms. As this sur...

Don't Blame P2P for the Demise of the CD

Filed in archive Business , Commentary by Marc on September 6, 2007

The NPD Group, in conjunction with NARM, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, said that consumer rejection of the CD format and use of digital files, iPods, and P2P are not the reason ...

"This is a fight about money, not about morality"

Filed in archive Commentary , Education , People by Marc on September 4, 2007

The recording industry has been focusing its PR the past several months on co-opting schools in its fight against copyright infringement by college students. EFF Senior Staff Attorney Fred von Lohmann...

Music's Swan Dive: Self-Inflicted Wounds

Filed in archive Business , Commentary , Entertainment industry by Marc on August 20, 2007

Rolling Stone published an in-depth feature on The Record Industry's Decline. Now that a new generation of executives is driving the record companies, they can admit what everyone else has known f...

Why we don't have 100 Mbps Internet

Filed in archive Commentary , Government , Internet , Society & Public Policy by Marc on August 10, 2007

In How's That U.S. Broadband Working For You? we reported how the U.S. fell further behind in world Broadband penetration and price. The OECD report rated the U.S. 15th out of 30 countries. Robert...

IFPI: Convenient Half-Truths About File Sharing

Filed in archive Commentary , International , RIAA, MPAA by Marc on August 10, 2007

IFPI, the international version of RIAA, released "Ten Inconvenient Truths About File Swapping". It's bizarre propaganda that conveniently confuses physical piracy with digital downloads...

What's Your Story: Stand and Deliver

Filed in archive Business , Commentary , Marketing by Marc on July 24, 2007

This article is part of a series on guaranteed success for tech and media marketing. 1. What's Your Story: An iPhone Christmas 2. What's Your Story: Demystifying Apple 3. What's Your Story...

What's Your Story: Make me care

Filed in archive Business , Commentary , Marketing by Marc on July 19, 2007

This article is part of a series on guaranteed success for tech and media marketing. 1. What's Your Story: An iPhone Christmas 2. What's Your Story: Demystifying Apple 3. What's Your Story...

Shelly Palmer Interviews Ray Beckerman about RIAA Lawsuits

Filed in archive Commentary , Consumer rights , Legal , People , RIAA, MPAA by Marc on July 19, 2007

Shelly Palmer interviews activist and attorney Ray Beckerman, author of the blog Recording Industry vs The People, which is "[a]bout the RIAA's attempt to monopolize digital music by redefin...

P2P Industry Update: Slow Progress

Filed in archive Business , Commentary , Entertainment industry by Marc on July 18, 2007

What are the prospects for the P2P industry and music and video distribution now that the legal issues have been decided by the Supreme Court? As I've previously written, the ongoing litigation ...

What's Your Story: All business is drama

Filed in archive Business , Commentary , Marketing by Marc on July 16, 2007

This article is part of a series on guaranteed success for tech and media marketing. 1. What's Your Story: An iPhone Christmas 2. What's Your Story: Demystifying Apple 3. What's Your Story...

Open Letter to Universities Whose Students Have Been Targeted by the RIAA

Filed in archive Commentary , Education , Legal by Marc on July 13, 2007

The iTunes Plus Scam

Filed in archive Commentary , Companies , Consumer rights , Privacy & Security by Marc on July 5, 2007

apple itunes Plus is here. I recommend that you run away. Fast. It was announced with a big bang and the promise of free and open music. See Open Format Files Rate a 30% Premium. It went downhill fr...

EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of the Major Labels

Filed in archive Commentary , Companies , Entertainment industry , Finance , Society & Public Policy by Marc on June 12, 2007

This article is part of a series on the changing music business. 1. Weakly Album Sales 2. It's Not About the Album 3. Album Sales Are Like US Box Office 4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of ...

Album Sales Are Like US Box Office

Filed in archive Commentary , Entertainment industry by Marc on June 8, 2007

This article is part of a series on the changing music business. 1. Weakly Album Sales 2. It's Not About the Album 3. Album Sales Are Like US box office 4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of ...

It's Not About the Album

Filed in archive Artists , Commentary , Entertainment industry by Marc on June 5, 2007

This article is part of a series on the changing music business. 1. Weakly Album Sales 2. It's Not About the Album 3. Album Sales Are Like US Box Office 4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of ...