Archive for the 'anti-drm' Category
BGO: No DRM Infection = Higher Sales
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 20th, 2007 in Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious, Digital Music, Digital downloading, EMI, anti-drm, copyright, drm.Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious
For some reason folks are acting all shocked that sales of digital music seem to go up when you dont cripple it with DRM. In a piece thats all over the net right now (here, here, here and here) Bloomberg (the news service not the recently independent, non-presidential candidate) [...]
Pricing Digital Music: An academic perspective
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 25th, 2007 in Digital Music, Digital downloading, Market Research & Intelligence, Quantification, Research, Research Summary, Survey, academics, anti-drm, file sharing, monetization, mp3, p2p monetization, p2p research, pricing, quantifiction.Trolling SSRN I came across another academic report destroying much of the FUD put out by the RIAA in their attempt to criminalize digital downloads. Like all good academic studies it has a cumbersome and wordy title, The Analog Hole and the Price of Music: An Empirical Study, which belies the rather simple text contained [...]
RIAA Sultans of Spin: Survey Data From 1,077 Internet Users
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 23rd, 2007 in Digital Music, Groups Opposing the RIAA, RIAA, Survey, anti-drm, copyright, lawsuits.A Pew Research report it aint, but the good folks at P2pnet.net have released the raw data from their online survey of Internet users, entitled “Sultans of Spin“. The data is released under the creative commons license and is in MS access format for easy crunching if your a database geek (I’m not). I mentioned [...]
What Evil File-traders Think about the Virtuous RIAA
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 15th, 2007 in AllOfMP3, Groups Opposing the RIAA, Market Research & Intelligence, RIAA, RIAA and Record Labels, Research, Survey, a-list, anti-drm, file sharing, p2p, p2p research.Last week, I mentioned the survey from P2Pnet.net, that AllofMP3.com was promoting on their homepage. Well the good folks at P2Pnet have released some initial data and say they will release the entire data-set on Monday. So far they have over 750 respondents and what looks like some really good directional information on the thinking [...]
EMI Goes DRM Free. Offers MP3 trade-in. Really!
2 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 2nd, 2007 in Apple, Digital Music, EMI, Groups Opposing the RIAA, Music Musings, RIAA, RIAA and Record Labels, anti-drm, deals, drm, great ideas, iPhone, iPod/iTunes, mobile phone, social ideas.I know I couldnt believe it myself. But unless everyone from the BBC to the WSJ has gotten it wrong its no joke. Sure it was first reported by the good folks that brought you the RARA joke but thats just a coincidence. The jist of this is that EMI will be releasing DRM free [...]
MAJOR RECORD LABELS WITHDRAW FROM RIAA
4 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 1st, 2007 in Apple, Broadband, Digital Music, EMI, Entertainment, Fun with PR, Groups Opposing the RIAA, IFPI, Innovation, Microsoft, Music Musings, RARA, RIAA, RIAA and Record Labels, Viral marketing, anti-drm, copyright, drm, great companies, great ideas, guerilla marketing, satire, social ideas, tech humor.This amazing bit of news was forwarded by Fred Benenson of Free Culture @ NYU. It’s amazing news and a critical development for the online music space. You can get more information at the RARA site and I’ve duplicated their message in full below without commentary:
From: Press Contact <respectartistaudience@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 31, 2007 [...]
Pirate Bay Bitch Slaps MPAA
4 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello February 12th, 2007 in BitTorrent, Broadband, Groups Opposing the MPAA, Humor, Movie downloads, The Pirate Bay, YouTube, anti-drm, copyright, movie downloading, mpaa, p2p, parody, video.“Were winning” they say! I’d have to agree.
Our favorite swashbuckling buccaneers over at the Pirate Bay have done it again. These guys have all the swagger, ambition and balls that their name implies. Its not enough that they want to buy an island to freely distribute the digital goodness we all crave, or that they [...]
Fallout from Steve Jobs anti-DRM Bomb
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello February 9th, 2007 in Apple, Digital Music, Entertainment, IFPI, Music Musings, Pundit Spats, RIAA and Record Labels, Steve Jobs, anti-drm, business, drm, great companies, iPod/iTunes, michael robertson, mp3, trend, warner music.Earlier this week the Chief Evangelical Officer of Apple Computers Inc., Steve Jobs, channeled the spirit of Ronald Regan (media moguls tear down these digital walls) and wrote an open letter (read my post here) aimed at the music barron’s in their Bling’d-out offices. In it he basically says that DRM sucks, iPods rock and [...]
