8 month ago
Linkorama : What does the Media Business Model mean? - Here's my start at a list all the revenue models you can find in the media industry, all based around a core of free or almost-free content:
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Does “Free” “Download” = “Freeload”? - 2 out of 5 Downloaders Willing to Pay an Average of $6 for “In Rainbows” Album
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10 month ago
nelson : 60% freeloaded Radiohead - Statistics on who paid what for the Radiohead album
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11 month ago
Linkorama : Oasis, Jamiroquai to follow Radiohead - Telegraph - Some of the music industry’s biggest names are considering offering their music free online following the success of the experiment by the band Radiohead to let fans download their new album without charge.
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13 month ago
nelson : BioShock via Steam?! - Big news that the best looking game of the year is also available via online delivery
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19 month ago
plasticbag : Ofcom are throwing a wobbly at the BBC's download plans and this is one time I'm very definitely on the BBC's side - We have to face it, the role of the 'broadcaster' in the distribution of television is on the decline as other methods come into play. Radio's safe. TV's changing and on demand will get larger. Hobbling the BBC in this area is the kiss of death to the org
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Linkorama : Kawasaki and the Wrong Tale - Open source product companies are at least one exception to this notion that the Long Tail is only for marketing and distribution companies
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28 month ago
plasticbag : Chris Bowley talks about opening up the BBC's data in the form of APIs through BBC Backstage - I worked with Chris on the Annotatable Audio project and he's now working for the team that I used to look after. He basically pretty much rocks, so you'll all be needing to go and read his blog now...
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28 month ago
plasticbag : Howto watch ABC TV Streams outside the USA - It's hacks like this that will mean that gradually the gap between shows being broadcast in the US and the rest of the world will diminish rapidly - and also why media distrubution will go global...
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28 month ago
plasticbag : ABC.com's full episode streaming allows you to watch TV shows online for free - Obviously the model is advertising funded. It's a pretty sweet angle because they can stop people skipping adverts. I don't think it's the model that 'wins', but it should sit nicely as one of the two or three along with season pass downloads...
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32 month ago
plasticbag : Broadcast Flag is back, this time it covers iPods and PSPs, too - "Under the DCPA proposal, digital media technologies would be restricted to using technologies that had been certified by the FCC as being not unduly disruptive to entertainment industry business-models."
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33 month ago
Andy Baio : Sloncek's story of the Suprnova shutdown - a year ago today [via]
Matthew M. Boedicker : what really happened to suprnova
plasticbag : The guy from Suprnova explains why the site went offline a year ago... - He tells the story quickly, but it sounds like quite a scary situation to find yourself in. Still, it also seems like the story ended fairly well. I wonder what happens next.
Nelson Minar : SuprNova story - sloncek's story of police, equiment seizure, etc (via Waxy)
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35 month ago
plasticbag : There's a lovely little widget available for listening to podcasts available on Odeo.com at the moment - It's just been updated to make it even shinier. Lovely bit of work this that Apple can't / haven't competed with...
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37 month ago
plasticbag : File-sharers move from BitTorrent - BBC News reports that people are moving towards using peer to peer software like eDonkey instead of BitTorrent, after trackers were shut down a few months ago...
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37 month ago
plasticbag : Mark Thompson's speech to the Edinburgh International Television Festival 2005 - "But the idea that, in the age of the i-pod, the public would not welcome the opportunity to actually buy a download of a piece of music they have heard on a BBC site ... seems to me ridiculous. "
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39 month ago
deusx : Kung Fu Monkey: It's a "Global" Frequency now ... - "A year and a half of writing and sweat and production disappeared down the TV pilot hole..." Well, shit. I was really looking forward to that one
plasticbag : The pilot for the TV show of the "Global Frequency" comic book has found its way onto BitTorrent - Apparently the show itself didn't get picked up by any networks, so this is all there is. No idea yet whether it's any good or not...
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39 month ago
plasticbag : The Record Effect, by Alex Ross - "How technology has transformed the sound of music"
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40 month ago
plasticbag : Bubblegeneration talks about how Media 2.0 needs to get past the idea of building 'strong barriers around their goods' - It references my recent comment on the New York Times, but actually I think it's more interesting than it seems - does this apply to all media? TV? Radio? DVDs? Movies? Software? Games?
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40 month ago
plasticbag : Podcast support in next version of iTunes - "He was slightly dismissive of populist podcasting, describing it as Wayne's World for radio and celebrating the arrival of professional radio stations into the market..."
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40 month ago
jkottke : Cringely on the future plans of Microsoft, Apple, and Google - MS is shipping their own PC, Apple is pushing into video on demand, and Google is building a massive supercomputer with the help of their customers.
plasticbag : I, Cringely on the Inflection Point - "So Apple takes over video and movies while Yahoo threatens with a low-priced music subscription service and Google threatens to take control of, well, everything." - Interesting article - but I wonder about Microsoft and Apple directly competing in the home entertainment appliance market. It still seems plausible to me that might happen.
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40 month ago
Andy Baio : Broadcast Flag struck down by Appeals Court! - "nothing has changed to give the FCC the authority it now claims"
jimray : Appeals court overturns FCC mandated broadcast flag - Wow, there's hope that technology can exist without being beholden to the overlords of entertainment
plasticbag : The DC Circuit of the US Court of Appeals strikes down the US Broadcast Flag - "And to the studio execs whom I faced across the table, who shouted at us and excluded us and told us that this was going to happen no matter what: NEENER NEENER NEENER."
jkottke : The stupid and ridiculous Broadcast Flag was struck down in US Appeals Court on Friday - Congratulations to the EFF and Cory on this victory.
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41 month ago
plasticbag : Replay Music records music off the radio and automatically tags it - Uses audio fingerprinting to figure out the beginning or end of the songs as well
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plasticbag : BBC news article on peer-to-peer networks and how they're being adopted as an effective distribution mechanism by mainstream media companies - "The BBC has already decided to embrace the technology. It aims to offer most of its own programmes for download this year and it will use P2P technology to distribute them."
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47 month ago
plasticbag : Blue Coconut - helping you to really share your iTunes music library - Apparently it doesn't work with iTunes 4.7, but I hear a new version is on its way. Looking forward to it.
jimray : Blue Coconut - iTunes sharing - now *really* shared
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48 month ago
Tristan Rivoallan : CacheLogic - P2P Traffic Analysis - The true picture of P2P file sharing
plasticbag : Andrew Parker's presentation on the true shape of P2P usage on the net - Among other things, reflects the enormous explosion of people using BitTorrent and demonstrates that the vast amount of traffic on the net is P2P (and not web) related
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