Well, we finally have it. Music like water raining down from the sky. iCloud. For slightly more than $2/mo everybody will soon have access to all the music they can find, steal, share, rip, produce, morph or buy using iTunes Match. Is this amnesty for all the music pirates? I hope so. As we predicted […]
How Will Musicians Earn Money in the Future?
June 2, 2011 By 12 Comments
Gasping for Breath as the Ship Goes Down – the final days of the recorded music business
August 25, 2010 By 11 Comments
Believe it or not, the National Association of Broadcasters and the Recording Industry Association of America have announced that they want new digital devices like cellphones, iPods and music players to be legally required to incorporate FM radio receivers. This appears to be a twisted bargain to get the radio broadcasters to agree to pay […]
Searching for Salvation
February 8, 2010 By 26 Comments
In the face of insurmountable odds I feel a competition is in order. Here’s a pretty telling graph – Recorded music sales over time since 1999. This is the truth. If you are trying to make money selling recordings, or producing them you are selling into a market that is auguring into the earth. If […]
Change or Die
September 14, 2009 By 2 Comments
A friend just sent over this post on how the newly elected Chairman of the Entertainment Retailers Association, said that illegal P2P filesharing is the greatest challenge facing entertainment retailers and urged members to lobby Government for a crackdown on a problem he said “is bleeding our industry dry”. Speaking at the association’s annual general […]
WSJ – RIAA to Abandon Mass Lawsuits?
December 20, 2008 By 1 Comment
