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 [...]
OR <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Why the Music Industry is Losing Money….. Whilst researching statistics for an article I am doing, I came across a little historical gem. The first CD ever issued back in 1982 was “<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />52nd Street” by Billy [...]
(Our previous article was the first upset.) This time, Canadians have made the top ten list of countries that are “out to get” the content industries. They share this dubious honour with the following countries. Priority Watch List (Links retrieve country specific pdf reports.) Argentina Canada Chile Costa Rica [...]
Dug out from the archives of the New York Times….. June 13, 1897 NYTimes American Publishers say they are Suffering by Copyright Violations There-Steps Taken for Redress. “Canadian pirates” is what the music dealers call publishing houses across the line who are flooding this country, they say, with spurious editions of the latest [...]
Prologue: (purloined from http://www.fourthturning.com/html/boom_generation.html) The Boom Generation (Prophet, born 1943-1960) basked as children in Dr. Spock permissiveness, suburban conformism, Sputnik-era schooling, Beaver Cleaver friendliness, and Father Knows Best family order. From the Summer of Love to the Days of Rage, they came of age rebelling against the worldly blueprints of their parents. As their [...]
Eighteen Months ago, I bought a 1 Terrabyte Lacie Big Ethernet Drive from a reseller on eBay for $530.00 (advertised with a three year warranty). I purchased the Lacie because a friend of mine who was in the video production game told me, “You can’t go past the Lacie drives, they’re indestructible.” On [...]
When young men reach the age of 17, (in Australia) they obtain their driving licenses. Then they buy a cool car (death trap) that isn’t worth the money that they or their parents paid for it. The next three years of their lives are spent “tricking” out the car with the best mag wheels, [...]
Depending on your point of view, it would appear that Government Departments are either very good or very bad at cooking the books. (Although possibly they didnt forsee independant analysis of the data….) For the last few days I have been researching for an article that I am writing on Perceptric. There are various [...]
In 1993, I wrote a paper entitled, How Ubiquitous Free Communication will Alter the Status Quo. I noted that because of electronic chat rooms [Prodigy, AOL and Compuserve] as more women became enamoured of the connectivity options available to them via a ubiquitous global network, that the divorce rate would rise dramatically. I [...]
Another Koltai Rant of a personal nature. It would appear to me that the Supreme Court in New South Wales is more interested in clearing it’s docket than ensuring that justice is served. This might be because yesterday, I lost my case (filed in March 2007) against Tricom Equities. Or it might be [...]