Links: The failed hi-res audio of the 1990s, the risks of piracy, Simon Reynolds’ glam faves.

• The failed hi-res audio formats of the 1990s, and why their creators should have known they’d fail: they forgot that convenience wins every time. 
• Just how risky is Internet piracy? Rather less risky than running a torrent site, particularly if your operational security is less than absolutely perfect. 
• Simon Reynolds wrote about glam rock in Shock and Awe (UK, US). Here’s ten of his favourites.

The goddamn book is uploaded. It’s out Monday, but you should totally precommit five quid to it now. It’s really good and I’m enormously pleased with it. Just Kindle (non-DRM) for now; tomorrow we sort out the paperback edition (I make any manner of actual artwork decision), and I look at getting it on SmashWords as well. Normal service will resume at Rocknerd, ah, some time soon. That’s one of Alli K‘s robots.