George Zieman has undertaken a long term analysis of music sales and shipments in the US. He sent me a link to a report that he has just posted which you can read the detail of here. George is not just a recent observer of reporting trends on music sales – he has been doing [...]
Podcasts – or more importantly time shifted audio content – are, I believe, one of the great information accelerators of our age. I subscribe to a number of feeds mainly from NPR in the US, the BBC in the UK and the ABC in Australia. I listen to them in the car on my commute [...]
Delegates to the ACTA discussions are now safe and sound back in their home countries convinced that they have been successful in aiding in stamping out copyright infringement. History has taught us that every-time the music industry or Government enact prosecutorial or legislative actions against file sharing, the resulting pushback always seems to trump [...]
The Music Industry continuously claims that it has been harmed by file sharing. Yet it has also, failed to provide empirical evidence of the actual damage. Whilst we disagree with their modus operandi in criminalizing their consumers, we do find that there would appear to be a difference in the reality of music sales [...]
When I was four years old, my family constructed a house. I asked my father how the builders knew what went where. And he told me about the plans and showed me the blueprints. I was enthralled, here was a method to build something. Draw up a master plan, order the lumber, roofing iron, and [...]
Part II In Part 1, I said that we considered that Hollywood would ignore the man in the street as irrelevent on the other side of the table at a file-sharing peace conference. That was our conclusion. That an industry body that represented the man in the street would fail in lobbying a solution. Anyone [...]
Well believe it or not, it’s not hard. Let me give you (for free) the benefit of the twenty-six years of online activity observation that I have undertaken. Lets first analyse why success on the Internet can be yours, without selling your soul to the content companies. There are three billion plus [...]
Or – How to increase Record Sales…… A few years ago (1994), a well known Australian journalist told me the secret of Journalism. “Tom, if you want to get published, just have something contrary to say about someone famous or a hot political subject and every journo in the land will want to ‘quote [...]
Many of our regular readers are wondering if I have gone batty lately. All I seem to be blogging about lately is Farmville this, Farmville that. What ever happened to P2P, the Global Financial Crisis and good old political head bashing? Believe it or not – all of those elements are inside Farmville [...]
A story on page three of the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday (No – I didn’t buy it – Chris did….. he was on the train and likes to do the crossword….) entitled “A blast form the Past: music lovers paying to play quoted some interesting numbers”. Digital Music Player 88% Had Purchased Music from [...]