Sonic Boom: Napster, P2P and the Battle for the Future of MusicWhats most interesting is reading about something that happened less then a decade a go but seems a life time ago in terms of technology but with little change in attitude from the record industry. Or am I being cynical and obvious.
Digital music: The genie's out of the bottle
Labels take note: unless changes are made, the day the music sales died might not be very far off.
There seems to have been a massive shift in terms of technology yet the recording industry still seems to be to taking the same approach as 10 years ago, in terms of stopping file sharing. There's some interesting comparisons to how a large media organisation, such as the BBC for example, has approached distributing it's content across multiple platforms. There has been a shift in terms of downloadable content but the recent news stories about Internet providers having to supply details of file sharers, all seems a bit like de ja vu whilst reading this book.
Carphone Warehouse rejects music police
“It’s between the user and them, it’s not to do with us. My lawyer explained it to me: it is like trying to prosecute the bus company that takes a shoplifter to the shops,” Mr Dunstone said
Next up is:
The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution
When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century
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