Over the last year or so, we have looked quite deeply into P2P and how it impacts content owners. We take the position that P2P is in many respects no different to radio or TV. It provides a great platform for doing promotion on a new title. For back catalogue it represents a more complex [...]
I was chatting to Chris yesterday about the addictive nature of many of the Facebook games. I dropped a statistic on him: Statistic – the Bureau of Economic Development (USA – BEA) have discovered that the average American watches four hours and eleven minutes of televised (inc. Cable) content daily. Well, that is [...]
Every Government knows that to keep the sheep constituency happy – you need to feed them four hours of entertainment daily to “pay” them for the addition to the national coffers (Tax). The other day I found some DVD’s at a barrow stand in a shopping centre selling for $2.00 each. They were all [...]
Its winter in Australia. Supposedly the coldest time of the year. Yet my Serrissa Foetida’s (tree of a thousand stars) are all in full bloom. Can’t be much of a winter if my Bonsai are all convinced that it’s already spring. So if it’s still winter, and it’s already this warm, will there be a [...]
There is a lot of concern in the copyright industry about file sharing. But file sharing is really just a new distribution model. It is asymmetric. The old way was linear – that is, music was recorded by the artist paid for by the label, and then shipped out to the retailer who sold it [...]
Tomorrow will be a great day for the future of Australia’s communication infrastructure. The technical engineering folk and tele-communication company suits will convene to discuss the industries perspective on Fibre to the home Broadband at the Observatory Hotel Sydney with the culmination being a conference participant jointly prepared statement of Industry sentiment and conference [...]
There seems to be a sense in some people that the GFC is happening somewhat remotely and only affects the way that funds can be raised to run businesses, or affects consumers' interest in spending money… The GFC is not what is at the heart of the matter. It is the manifestation of the illness, [...]
I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Perhaps you noticed yourself. The economy is not getting any better. The problem with fixing a problem as incredibly big as the one we have got, is that the more that people start to unravel the problem, the more that the depth and seriousness becomes [...]
For the purposes of this article I consider “Media” to include all forms of recorded information and/or entertainment that was historically based in the analogue world (books, newspapers, TV, recorded music, movies, etc). Over the last few months there has been an evolving conflict emerging in the book industry in Australia. The retailers would like [...]
I think it would be reasonable to state that we are living at the most intensely challenging period in the history of mankind. I have no doubt too that every generation in history has felt the same thing. Every generation, after all, has had its end times adherents. Some quote the book of Revelation. Some [...]