Last Week’s Music Industry Hits & Misses
HITS –
– UK singer-songwriter Billy Bragg for pulling his MySpace pages after discovering some questionable language in their use agreement. (more)
– EMI for being the first major to sign up with ad supported p2p QTrax. Who knows if it’s revolutionary, but it’s a start.(more)
MISSES
– Country radio for punishing the Dixie Chicks for speaking their mind. Radio loves to waive the flag and "Support Our Troops", but is unwilling defend the 1st Amendment.
– Congress for passing a draft in committee of new copyright legislation that feels like it was written by and for the industry rather than the people that elected them. (more)
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btw, somebody better start watching Sony’s cash pile, cause they are about to emmaciate themselves.
Their blue ray effort fails and it drags down ps3.
http://games.slashdot.org/games/06/06/12/1524206.shtml
“With the PS3’s high-end model coming it at a whopping $400.00 less than a stand-alone Blu-Ray player, Sony needs to release these players as soon as possible. If they wait too long, the PS3 will begin looming on the horizon, causing even devout early adopters to question the intelligence of buying a stand-alone Blu-Ray unit. Sony also needs the largest possible installed base, come launch-time for the PS3. For the Blu-Ray player to be the PS3’s version of the PS2’s DVD player, casual technophiles need to be able to see the virtues of the Blu-Ray format. If there are few players, and few titles, this might not happen.”