Recently iTunes censors in the UK went a little nuts with the asterisks, non-nonsensically inserting asterisks into the names of anyone unfortunate enough to be named “Dick,” or, for some reason, “Johnny,” as well as other, seemingly random words:
While iTunes has always asterisked potentially offensive entries in its database, recently the UK version of the […]
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Metallica invites bloggers to listen to new album, won’t let them write about it
Published by June 10th, 2008 in Blogs, Music, PR Disasters, Social Media and Web 2.0. 2 CommentsUsually, when a company invites the media or bloggers to an event to offer an exclusive early look at a product, the goal is to encourage said media or bloggers to write about that product. When Metallica invited bloggers to listen to its upcoming album, reviews inevitably popped up on the Web; reviews which Metallica’s […]
Sony BMG makes you visit a store to download DRM-free tunes
Published by January 7th, 2008 in Music and Technology. 0 CommentsI applauded Sony BMG when they announced they would be offering DRM-free music for download. After all, the idea of DRM is fundamentally broken - when there is an abundant supply of free music that will play on any device at high quality, why would people realistically pay for an inferior product?
It’s worth noting that […]
“The (record) labels killed themselves.”
Published by June 29th, 2007 in Music, Technology and Web/Internet. 0 CommentsRolling Stone is running a two-part series on “The Record Industry’s Decline.” They seem to pin the tipping point on the moment the industry refused to work with Napster in 2000, instead launching their own music download services, none of which worked as well as Napster. Soon after Napster shut down, what had been the […]
