Archives for the 'bigcontent' Category
Surprise! The Plastic Disc Business Hasn’t Fixed Itself
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Welcome to 2008, and welcome to this incredibly surprising news coming out of the AP: US album sales declined in 2007. Kind of like how they’ve declined in eight of the past twelve years, actually.
Who could have predicted this? I mean, it’s not like the RIAA had access to data that seems [...]
Lunchtime Musings: on the writers’ strike
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
I love seeing the striking writers producing direct-to-YouTube videos in support of their cause. The video below was posted yesterday, and as of 1:31 pm EST it’s been viewed 38,447 times. An awful lot of people are getting an engaging, amusing pitch for the writers’ position.
Seems like the Big Content executives would benefit [...]
NBC Direct Extremely Viewer-Friendly In Bizarre Alternate Reality
Monday, November 12th, 2007
NBC releases the beta of its ad supported TV download service (code named screw you, iTunes, I understand), and paidContent is unimpressed.
To summarize, if one were a recently converted DVR-less Heroes addict who finds it inconvenient to watch the show when it airs, one’s (entirely hypothetical) options would be:
1. Go with the NBC software, [...]
Prince, sans the Revolution
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Techcrunch follows up on Prince’s rather eccentric recent moves to defend intellectual property that may or may not be his. [Yes, I know how surprising it is to see the words "Prince" and "eccentric" in the same sentence, just remember that you heard it here first.]
Here’s the thing: it seems wildly inaccurate to [...]
“Kind of like Mission: Impossible”
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
That’s what NBC’s Jeff Gaspin has to say on the network’s efforts to offer a compelling video download service after thumbing its nose at iTunes. From the NY Times article:
Under the new NBC service, called NBC Direct, consumers will be able to download, for no fee, NBC programs like “Heroes,” “The Office” and “The [...]
Inside Sony’s “ringle” decision-making process
Monday, September 10th, 2007
Reuters article: Music industry betting on ‘ringle’ format
As the recording industry wakes up from its summer slumber and starts thinking about what will motivate the consumer for the holiday selling season, the major labels are getting ready to launch the “ringle,” which combines the mostly defunct single format with ringtones.
Each ringle is expected to contain [...]
This seems oddly familiar, somehow…
Friday, August 10th, 2007
My prognostications on major labels giving up DRM haven’t been great thus far—damn you EMI, doing the smart thing only a few years too late—so perhaps you should take this with a grain of salt.
Still, Universal’s decision to run a six month test of DRM-free downloads (just check Techmeme or Technorati, I can’t decide which [...]
