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| Friday, November 12, 2004 |
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See what you see 
| | I'm told video podcasts are fed from here. Don't know much more than that. |
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Copyfight 101
What it will (or might) be
| | 10. Perkins A cultural move to IT as a utility in computing will keep the IT business growing. Panel agreed. Obviously the panel has never sold a service to IT. This is a complex and long term trend that has more to do with the IT department¹s employee incentive system, than to do with technology. |
| | Lotta good stuff there. Read the whole thing. |
Racket protection
| | Just got this email from a friend in the entertainment industry... |
| | Here is what's up on the new U2 CD "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb." |
| | The band has said over and over they would release the CD Nov. 23 rd in the US and a day earlier in Europe. They have also said that the moment it leaked to the internet they would make it for sale at iTunes and elsewhere. |
| | That sure sounded like a challenge a month ago when we all first heard about it. So what happened? |
| | Well, over the weekend it was starting to show up on BitTorrent sites. The whole CD was there in fine audio form. By Tuesday I would guess almost everybody in radio had it. BUT nobody was playing it. (You can now monitor this in real time for stations country wide with search and all that.) Why? Well to do so would piss off the record company and the band. |
| | There is a tour planned in 2005 and of course lots of stations want to be part of the promotion for that. And now, with so few record labels it's not a good idea to piss anyone off. But radio was really wanting to play the CD. So the record company promised to get copies out to the stations Thursday. I don't know if they actually sent a CD or did it via computer as they do with commercials. |
| | So today stations around the country started to play it. But it's still not in the stores or on iTunes. Why? Get this...word is the retail stores will be pissed if the band puts it up on iTunes before the CD is on the shelves in the stores! Wal Mart trumps U2. |
| | So the big plan to trump illegal downloads completely backfires today as jocks all around the country play new the new U2 CD and say "it's not available yet." Translation: "you can get an illegal copy on the Net," to the clickty click folks. So much for that strategy. |
| | So I just looked up "Atomic U2" on LimeWire. Those are just some of the results, in the screenshot above. I also just checked iTunes. None of the album is there yet. |
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