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 [...]
This is the third article in this series entitled: The Economics of Video Entertainment Part 1 Here Part 2 Here For the last couple of days I’ve been leading up to talking about the individual value proposition as to why people purchase, watch, read or listen to certain types of content. Hedonic pricing [...]
There is a lot of discussion in the local Australian media at the moment about CEO salaries. There is criticism that some of them get paid too much. Now, having been the CEO of a public company, I reckon that the legal responsibilities that go with the job are extremely significant, so CEO's should be [...]
If you have read Part 1, downloaded and watched the movie – we are ready to explore part 2 if not – then you won’t understand half of the following; We now know about the economic hitmen which are basically the first line of defense – who go in to corrupt foreign government leaders. [...]
I had an email from one of our regular readers today about a water cooler conversation that he had recently about DVDs that I thought was interesting… Here is the gist of it: We have all seen the messages at the beginning of DVD's that admonish us all not to steal, with the edgy music [...]
We’re on the verge of an infrastructural shift as profound as any in human history, on the scale of the Industrial Revolution. You might say we’re going to be seeing the other side of that revolution, and it will change our political system, our ideologies, and our beliefs. Richard Heinberg. July 2006 On the [...]
The definition of coincidence is interesting to contemplate. Have P2P’ers notice the remarkable coincidental disappearance of the majority of fake files and malware ridden content since media Defender laid its little head down ? And interestingly enough, it was the content industry that was paying them to infect our computers and waste our [...]
Even as Steven Jobs is working to remove the DRM from iTunes sold content, Apple itself is joining the ranks of the copyright industry by defending the iPhone from hackers “jailbreaking” their phones.. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act bans people from defeating technical protections for copyrighted materials (such as DRM on iTunes songs and [...]