The Daily Loper - November 3, 2006
These Are Not My Shoes Edition
Today’s links of interest:
- Hollywood leans right, too
And we’re all just fed up with those Hollywood Conservatives trying to foist their depraved values on the rest of the country!! - Patently a problem?
If you look long and hard, everything being done today was patented twenty years ago…and said patents are lying dormant, just waiting to join a lawsuit. - Big labels are f*cked, and DRM is dead - Peter Jenner
A must read interview with Peter Jenner. He’s got the Medialoper party-line down pat. - Time for Saturday night to rise from the dead
One of our faves, Tim Goodman, takes a look at what the nets could do with Saturdays and comes to pretty much the same conclusion that we did: use it for critical and cult faves. We still like our ?NBC?s Saturday Night Re-views Before Saturday Night - British believe Bush more dangerous than Kim Jong-il
However, they still think Kim Jong-il has better hair. - "Touch-screen" mention causes iPod speculation
Kinda luke-warm on the whole touch-screen concept: it’s not like current iPod screens don’t get grungy and scratched enough without adding your dirty fingertips to to the mix. - Google a Suitor for Clear Channel?
Will absorbing pure evil conflict with their edict to not do any? - Dunder-Mifflin does Diwali
Spoilers for last night’s "The Office." But also the lyrics to the cherry-on-top closer to another brilliant ep, Michael’s "The Diwali Song." Let’s hope this puts Adam Sandler to rest once and for all. - Hollywood writers, studios spar over digital works
Over and over and over again. Or is it, same song, second verse? This is going to be the ugly, rest assured. - Over half of U.S. phone users want music, Cingular says
Well, one could argue, based on the article, that really, more people *want* music — whether they want it delivered via cell phone is another question entirely. Let us again review the biggest barrier to success: battery life. - YouTube sued by sound-alike site
Oh man, didn’t you just know this one was coming? It’s not an illegitimate complaint, but why sue first? Surely there are easier ways to resolve these issues? - Record companies sue defendant’s kids
When at first you don’t succeed. When suing an "Internet illiterate" parent doesn’t work, go for her kids. That always makes for good headlines. - Cruise, Wagner Form United Front
Ah, the rise (again) of United Artists. Someone, soon, is going to about champagne taste and Miller High Life budgets.
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1. Michael Urlocker wrote on November 5th, 2006 at 8:17 am
A lot of what Jenner observes are the classic issues industries face when they are being disrupted. Same trends occured in telecom, newspapers and others.
In particular, note the denials from the music industry organization IFPI, whose chief researcher says essentially, everything is fine, despite five years of decline in UK sales and a recent sharp 22% drop in US hip hop sales: “After all we still sell 2 billion albums a year”.
Details here:
http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2006/11/death_of_the_re.html