I had dinner with Johnny H on Sunday night, and he was telling me that he was in the process of selling his Beemer because it was about to hit a bit inflection point in terms of depreciation – 150,000kms. My Prius had its 140,000km service on Tuesday (yesterday) so I thought maybe I should [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday, I wrote about two companies that were “listening” to their customers. In August I listed a series of video clips that were not yet available through Amazon. The reality is that the music companies are listening to the consumers. They have identified the enormous growth in digital music sales and are rushing to [...]
Tomorrow is the end of the world. For Foxtel at least. Well, as far as having me as their number one unpaid critic. You would think that with all the coverage I was giving them, they would have given me a “comped” account. But no, they ignored me – mostly. Apart from when they took [...]
Maxwell Smart fans will remember the cone of silence. That horrendous piece of elliptical cone shaped perspex that descended from the ceiling to foil the bugging attempts of KAOS. As Max, the Chief and spies and persons with secrets to hide have discovered worldwide, sometimes, containment (cone of silence) doesn’t work very well. At [...]
For some time, an Australian Company Perceptric Pty. Ltd., has been researching the damage to content provider revenues from illegal file sharing activities. Empirically we can find no conclusive evidence that file sharing damages the income stream for copyright owners, in fact, quite the reverse. We have found definitive statistics that show the [...]
In the USA we see the RIAA take action against the ilk of the Pirate Bay and solo parent mothers and individual students. But when was the last time they actually took on the RICO organized crime DVD distributors? The RICO funded, managed and controlled Web sites advertising hundreds of movies for once only [...]
John is a good friend from Los Angeles, who voted for Obama in the recent Presidential election. He sent this to me earlier today. I thought it was too good to not share and John has agreed for me to publish it here. Seems to sum up so much how quickly the honeymoon can end [...]