blockchain – Page 2

Why Blockchain won’t save the music industry, and Imogen Heap wants to spyware you.

6 November, 201615 December, 2016 Industry, mp3, Opinion, Writing 1

The blockchain book I’m writing; a couple of short excerpts from the music section I drafted about half of today.

Links: Psychoacoustics for recording, blockchain band names, Dépèche Mode demos.

23 October, 2016 Audio, Industry, Links, Pop 0

Scurvy recording trickery, scurvier buzzword-compliant scams and Dépèche Mode so too has the accents in.

Links: Negativland, Diamond Rio MP3, Dylan, writing.

21 October, 201621 October, 2016 Industrial, Links, mp3, Writing 1

The ultimate in merchandising, reviving an old gadget, Dylan as writer, me as writer.

Links: Spotify malware ads, music manuscript fonts, drugs. And Blockchain.

12 October, 201623 October, 2016 Drugs, Links, mp3, Musician 0

It’s been another busy day with Blockchains in. Have some links.

Fool’s gold rush: Blockchain initiatives for everybody! Especially the artists, our eternal and only concern.

1 September, 20166 November, 2016 Industry 0

It’s heartwarming how keen all these “blockchain” people are to helpfully intermediate between you, the artist, and the prospect of money.

SingularDTV: a “blockchain entertainment studio” using Ethereum for DRM on their totally boss sci-fi TV show about the Singularity.

19 August, 20169 May, 2018 Film, Industry, Television 7

SingularDTV is an exciting new blockchain-based entertainment industry boondoggle. It’s part DRM snake oil marketing, part pseudo-Bitcoin scam and part sincere Singularitarian weirdness. You should not fall for it.

Kim Dotcom’s Mega 3, with Bitcoin. Two bad ideas that go worse together.

10 August, 201619 August, 2016 mp3 0

Kim Dotcom is a crook and a scammer. I feel this claim is sufficiently backed for me to make such a bold statement in England. The amazing thing was that the MPAA ever made a colourful racing identity like Dotcom look like the good guy.

Imogen Heap failing to catch all the money raining from the skies, on The Blockchain.

Imogen Heap doesn’t make the blockchain hype make sense either.

2 December, 20152 May, 2017 Industry, mp3 3

The big name in recent “blockchain” (Bitcoin) hype is Imogen Heap. As far as I can tell, it’s still the case that nothing about this is going to work.

More on the blockchain-music hype: what PeerTracks thinks it’s doing.

7 August, 20155 September, 2016 Industry 1

After the amazingly terrible Berklee white paper on how to make all musicians rich using magic beans, today we have a breathless piece of content marketing in Billboard hyping the notion, devoid of useful detail and promising the moon on a stick fueled by very complicated computer wizard magick.

Putting the record industry on Bitcoin: Why this won’t work.

23 July, 20155 September, 2016 Industry 1

Bloomberg has put up a breathless piece of hype based on a report from the most speculative unit of the Berklee College of Music, suggesting that doing it all on THE BITCOIN BLOCKCHAIN will shower money on all. Plus point: it is indeed from Berklee. Minus points: it’s made of squirrels and crack.