Industry – Rocknerd

YouTube stream ripping: the record industry is being thick again.

12 September, 201719 September, 2017 Industry, mp3, Opinion 3

I feel like I’m giving away the game here by revealing the truth to the terminally incompetent, but good Lord this is ridiculous.

Links: Goldman Sachs is full of it, streaming for DJs, why you can’t blockchain music.

31 August, 201731 August, 2017 Dance, Industry, Links, mp3 0

And PlayMobil Joy Division.

Entertainment on the blockchain with ICOs: Opus, Viberate’s convicted felon adviser, Kim Dotcom.

29 August, 201729 August, 2017 Industry 4

1. Steal underpants. 2. ICO. 3. Profit!

How Spotify dragged the record industry kicking and screaming to its own survival.

22 August, 201722 August, 2017 Industry, mp3, Opinion 0

You’d think people running a business would do things that would make money and have them still be around next year. But, welcome to music!

Links: Warner copyright fraud, RightsCorp bleeding red ink, BBC audio woo.

21 August, 2017 Audio, Industry, Links 1

And a rousing topical singalong.

Links: Musical blockchains again.

17 August, 201717 August, 2017 Industry, Links, Rocknerd 0

Not all about me, for once!

Soundcloud saved for now! … keep downloading.

11 August, 201712 August, 2017 Industry, mp3 0

SoundCloud is saved! … for as yet unknown values of “saved.”

It’s the Global Repertoire Database everyone loves! (5 sec later) We regret to inform you …

6 August, 201714 August, 2017 Industry 0

… that the new effort is falling to the same infighting the original did.

When did music journalism stop wielding the axe? Particularly against the industry?

2 August, 20172 August, 2017 Industry, Media, Writing 0

Music journalist upset at not being able to put the boot in any more? YOU ARE NOT SHORT OF TARGETS.

Links: SoundCloud saved, ASCAP and BMI start on Global Repertoire Database, Daily Mail sued for piracy.

30 July, 201730 July, 2017 Industry, Links, mp3 0

And my book is doing surprisingly well.

Links: Women in jazz, the power of arts funding, Chrome will kill torrent sites.

15 July, 201715 July, 2017 Industry, Jazz, Links, mp3 0

And some fake copyright VHS warnings.

Spotify’s extruded pop product substitute is worth it for the industry outrage.

12 July, 201717 July, 2017 Industry, Media, mp3, Opinion, Pop 1

Spotify outrages the record industry by not giving them even more free money. The actual listeners are fine with this.

Links: FACT using Grenfell Tower for marketing, notice-and-stay-down, perpetual copyright.

17 June, 201717 June, 2017 Industry, Links, mp3, Your rights 0

Apparently Kodi software is flammable. Who knew?

Links: Music industry sexism, vinyl video game music, why do we want sound recording anyway?

23 May, 201723 May, 2017 Audio, Games, Industry, Links 0

As usual, the comments on an article on why feminism is needed in the music industry demonstrate why feminism is needed in the music industry.

eMusic returns! Or something of that name.

11 May, 201712 May, 2017 Industry, mp3, Record 10

Remember eMusic? I was a happy customer back in the day.

Warner does a deal with YouTube. The record industry is outraged!

8 May, 20179 May, 2017 Industry, mp3, Opinion, Your rights 0

Warner has signed a completely expected deal with YouTube, because they do great business with each other and fully wish to continue. The music industry is hilariously outraged that Warner did the obvious deal with a fantastic and essential publicity outlet.

Links: How to rig the charts, musicians’ vending machine, a malware music player, Internet Archive.

7 May, 201718 May, 2017 Audio, Industry, Links, Musician 0

I’m sure Harry Styles will categorically deny that anyone from any of his teams paid anyone to do anything whatsoever toward this chart rigging effort. Any moment now.

The music industry’s sense of entitlement. How to get the money rolling again.

4 May, 20175 May, 2017 Industry, Opinion, Writing 0

Eamonn Forde opines at The Quietus that the reports of the record industry’s rebirth are greatly exaggerated.

You’d almost think there’d been some sort of horrifying plummet in people’s financial circumstances.

Links: Studio 54, Rage, The KLF.

2 May, 20172 May, 2017 Dance, Industry, Links, Television 1

And Rocknerd’s wise words on Blockchain reaching a wider audience.

Why Spotify wants some Blockchain; how music industry Blockchain dreams work.

27 April, 201717 September, 2017 Industry, mp3, Opinion 6

A detailed examination of why music industry Blockchain (capital B) dreams are not going to work out.

Followups: Free money from YouTube, windowing and piracy, totally not Pono.

25 April, 201728 April, 2017 Audio, Industry, Links, mp3 0

Ongoing sagas that remain perennial bad pennies of stupid.

Links: Portuguese DRM bypass law, majors and streaming money, personal desktop torrent search.

11 April, 201711 April, 2017 Industry, Links, mp3, Your rights 0

Some fun with DRM, BitTorrent and the legal streaming money never reaching the artists anyway.

The Spotify-Universal 2017 deal, with windowing, probably won’t change much.

5 April, 20177 April, 2017 Industry, mp3, Opinion 0

Apart from revitalising the torrent sites, but everyone seems to have noticed that bit now.

Record labels want money YouTube doesn’t earn, just because Google has some and they’d like it.

3 April, 20177 April, 2017 Industry, Opinion 1

With cites that they know this money doesn’t actually exist yet.

Links: The history of records, copyright troll woes, Chuck Berry in space, the other Top 40 charts.

27 March, 2017 Audio, Industry, Links, Your rights 0

“My mum had a record of Winston Churchill speeches that played at 16⅔rpm. As we never owned a record player with that speed, I only ever heard the Pinky & Perky version played at 33.”