June 7, 2007

Music on the Internets

Videos

Björk – Earth Intruders
“Bob Dylan” reveals he wrote every hit song of the last 35 years
Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers
Instructional video: Discovering Electronic Music, (1983)
British Solders in Iraq: It Must be Love (Madness)
Gollum and Smeagol sing Barry White

Links
Björk disses Dylan
Nearly 40 years after founding Apple Records, Paul McCartney releases his Starbucks Coffee debut.

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June 7, 2007

Bankrupting internet radio

“Administrative costs” might be the worst rationale the RIAA has to seek $1B in reimbursements from major Internet radio providers like Pandora. Are administrative costs the legal fees incurred while chasing down (away) music consumers?
The Internet is a revolutionary distribution tool because of its low distribution costs. Beyond the bandwidth, what administrative costs [...]