Radiohead's Ed O'Brien 'Piracy isn't killing music'
Guitarist speaks out about the current state of the music industry
Radiohead's Ed O'Brien has hit out at claims that piracy is killing the music industry.Expressing his thoughts on the situation, the guitarist explained that whilst pirates might not purchase music, they are still putting money into the industry.
"I have a problem when people in the industry say 'it's killing the industry, it's the thing that's ripping us apart'," O'Brien said in an interview on Midem. "I don't actually believe it is... [Pirates] might not buy an album, but they're spending their money buying concert tickets, a t-shirt, whatever."
In the interview, O'Brien also added what solutions the industry could be making to remedy the problem.
"It's an analogue business model in a digital era," he explained. "The business model has to change. You've got to license out more music - have more Spotifys, more websites selling more music. You've got to make it slightly cheaper to get music in order to compete with the peer-to-peers."
He added: "I find it staggering that the industry seems to be really dragging its heels on this - this is stuff that you could do in one week. Move quicker!"
Saturday, January 23, 2010
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Cindy McCain NOH8 PHOTO: McCain Joins Project Protesting Prop 8
Cindy McCain NOH8 PHOTO: McCain Joins Project Protesting Prop 8
On Wednesday, the NOH8 campaign protesting California's Proposition 8 announced a new high-profile Republican supporter: John McCain's wife, Cindy McCain. NOH8 is a photo project in which subjects are photographed wearing white, against a white background, with their mouths taped shut and "NOH8" painted on their faces.
McCain's daughter Meghan McCain -- a vocal proponent of marriage equality -- posed for NOH8 last summer. (Her Daily Beast piece explaining why she posed can be found here.)
The NOH8 website posted the following note, along with McCain's photo, expressing the campaign's surprise and appreciation that she decided to join the cause.
In the year since we've started the NOH8 Campaign, we've been surprised at some of the different individuals who have approached us showing their support. Few, though, have surprised us more than Cindy McCain--the wife of Senator John McCain and mother to vocal marriage equality advocate Meghan McCain. The McCains are one of the most well-known Republican families in recent history, and for Mrs. McCain to have reached out to us to offer her support truly means a lot. Although we had worked with Meghan McCain before and we were aware of her own position, we'd never really thought the cause might be something her mother could get behind.
Aligning yourself with the platform of gay marriage as a Republican still tends to be very stigmatic, but Cindy McCain wanted to participate in the campaign to show people that party doesn't matter - marriage equality isn't a Republican issue any more than it is a Democratic issue. It's about human rights, and everybody being treated equally in the eyes of the law that runs and protects this country.Both McCains' NOH8 photos are below. (h/t advocate.com)
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Facebook Scam Applications Strike Again
You've got to wonder who, if anyone, is approving applications for distribution on Facebook. A far cry from Apple's "deny first, ask later" policy, Facebook seems to have allowed yet another spam application through.
The application is called Photo Comments, and it appears to be a reincarnation of Phetas, an application that made its rounds a few weeks back. Phetas has since been removed, and all notifications generated by the application deleted. Here's how Photo Comments works, and why Facebook needs to start weighing in:
- Photo Comments goes viral by notifying you that one of your friends has "commented on a photo of you". The image in the notification looks exactly like Facebook's built-in photo application.
- You click the notification and are directed to add the application Photo Comments. Don't, because if you do...
- Facebook notifies your friends that you've commented on a photo of them, and the virus/scam spreads further.
Review of Photo Comments average one star, with users saying:
- "this thing attacked me, linked to a bunch of adds and is purposefully trying to look like normal picture comments."
- "This appears to be a bogus application - possibly virus?"
Facebook is losing a lot of ground. In the past month they have implemented new privacy policies that are as confusing as they are incomplete, and now they have approved (passively or actively) at least 2 spam applications that look and feel just like one of their native apps. Where are they going to go from here?
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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