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Spotify – en misslyckad affärsmodell? « Full Mental Straightjacket
https://fullmentalstraightjacket.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/spotify-en-misslyckad-affarsmodell/, posted 2011 by peter in business copyright crapification dinosaurism inswedish music online opinion
Det är förmodligen så man ska se på Spotify; det är ytterligare en livsuppehållande åtgärd för en industri som egentligen borde få somna in för gott. Det kommer heta att det är piratkopierarnas fel, man kommer skylla på ungefär allt som går att skylla på för att försöka skyla de egentliga orsakerna; en trasig och förlegad upphovsrätt och fullständigt föråldrade affärsmodeller inom upphovsrättsindustrin.
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Spotifys affärsmodell är väldigt rätt, en Internetbaserad tjänst som ger dig ett musikbibliotek som är många gånger större än det du själv orkar sortera och indexera på egen hand, men det hjälper inte när de samtidigt tvingas hålla en obsolet och döende dinosaurie vid liv. Utan den dödvikten tror jag att Spotify hade varit markant mer framgångsrik, artisterna hade definitivt fått markant mer betalt och mycket av dagens kritik hade aldrig ens uppstått men med dagens beslut kommer kritikerna knappast bli tystare.
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Music Royalty Society Collects Money For Fake Artists, Bathroom Equipment and Food | TorrentFreak
torrentfreak.com/music-royalty-society-collects-money-for-fake-artists-bathroom-equipment-and-food-110308/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29, posted 2011 by peter in copyright dinosaurism humor music satire scam
Making a telephone call to SABAM [the Belgian association of authors, composers and publishers] from a public toilet, a Basta [an investigative and satirical TV show in Belgium] team member looked at the manufacturer of a hand dryer and explained that Kimberly Clark would be performing at an upcoming event. That would cost 134 euros minimum said SABAM.
Next the playlist. What if Kimberly Clark sang songs not covered by SABAM? Titles such as ‘Hot Breeze’, ‘Show Me Your Hands’, ‘I Wanna Blow You Dry’, ‘I’m Not a Singer I Am a Machine’ and the ever-timeless, ‘We Fooled You’, for example.
Five days later the answer came from SABAM. All of the songs were “100% protected” and so Basta must pay 127.07 euros.
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Imaginary Losses
wastholm.tumblr.com/post/2337451028/imaginary-losses, posted 2010 by peter in business copyright dinosaurism music p2p propaganda
According to an article in the Guardian:
Illegal downloading of music cost the UK industry nearly £1bn this year, the BPI claimed today, as it produced research showing online piracy is still growing.
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It based that calculation on an assumption that every track would have sold for 82p, the average price of a digital single, although it conceded not everyone who downloaded tracks illegally would have paid for them if they had been unable to obtain them illegitimately.
Also, last year thousands of people rode on the same bus as me. This cost me thousands of euros. I base that calculation on an assumption that they would each have paid me €1 to keep them company, though I concede that maybe not all of them would have paid if they could just have gone along anyway. As indeed they did.
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Libre.fm
libre.fm/, posted 2010 by peter in audio collaboration community free indie mp3 music online social streaming
Libre.fm allows you to share your listening habits and discover new music.
100% indie artists.
Libre.fm actively supports the creation of music by independent artists, and only plays music that has been licensed freely.
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Legally download and share any track.
Every song on Libre.fm is made by musicians who *want* you to share their music.
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Clementine Music Player
www.clementine-player.org/, posted 2010 by peter in free linux music software
Clementine is a multiplatform music player. It is inspired by Amarok 1.4 and is written to take advantage of Qt4. Clementine is Free Software under the GPL.
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projectM
projectm.sourceforge.net/, posted 2010 by peter in free linux mac music software visualization windows
projectM is an awesome music visualizer. There is nothing better in the world of Unix. projectM's greatness comes from the hard work of the community. Users like you can create presets that connect music with incredible visuals. Try it!
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Music chief: preventing file-sharing is a "waste of time" | News | PC Pro
www.pcpro.co.uk/news/359458/music-chief-preventing-file-sharing-is-a-waste-of-time, posted 2010 by peter in copyright dinosaurism music opinion p2p
A leading music industry figure has labelled attempts to thwart internet file-sharing as a "waste of time".
Peter Jenner, the former manager of Pink Floyd and now emeritus president of the International Music Managers' Forum (IMMF), launched a scathing attack on the music industry's tactics at a Westminster e-Forum.
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Recording Industry vs. The People
recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2010/07/ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-riaa-paid-its-lawyers.html, posted 2010 by peter in business copyright dinosaurism humor music
The RIAA's "business plan" is even worse than I'd guessed it was.
The RIAA paid Holmes Roberts & Owen $9,364,901 in 2008, Jenner & Block more than $7,000,000, and Cravath Swain & Moore $1.25 million, to pursue its "copyright infringement" claims, in order to recover a mere $391,000.
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As bad as it was, I guess it was better than the numbers for 2007, in which more than $21 million was spent on legal fees, and $3.5 million on "investigative operations" ... presumably MediaSentry. And the amount recovered was $515,929.
And 2006 was similar: they spent more than $19,000,000 in legal fees and more than $3,600,000 in "investigative operations" expenses to recover $455,000.
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RIAA Accounting: Why Even Major Label Musicians Rarely Make Money From Album Sales | Techdirt
www.techdirt.com/articles/20100712/23482610186.shtml, posted 2010 by peter in business copyright dinosaurism media music propaganda toread
We recently had a fun post about Hollywood accounting, about how the movie industry makes sure even big hit movies "lose money" on paper. So how about the recording industry? Well, they're pretty famous for doing something quite similar. Reader Jay pointed out in the comments an article from The Root that goes through who gets paid what for music sales, and the basic answer is not the musician. That report suggests that for every $1,000 sold, the average musician gets $23.40.
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And that explains why huge megastars like Lyle Lovett have pointed out that he sold 4.6 million records and never made a dime from album sales. It's why the band 30 Seconds to Mars went platinum and sold 2 million records and never made a dime from album sales. You hear these stories quite often.
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PureVolumeâ„¢ | We're Listening To You
www.purevolume.com/, posted 2010 by peter in audio community indie mp3 music social streaming
PureVolume is a website for the discovery and promotion of new music and emerging artists. Each artist has a profile that typically contains basic info, updates, photos, shows and music for streaming. Artists have the option of making each of their songs available for free download. Listeners and fans can also create profiles to interact with artists and each other, as well as track and share music they like.
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