I think Prince can be safely ignored :) -Adi
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Kevin Driscoll <[email protected]>wrote: > Things that make you go hmmmm.... > > > /******************************/ > > "Prince, one of the most versatile and influential music acts of the > past 30 years, refuses to release any more music until the Internet > cleans up its act. > > Best known for such hits as "Purple Rain," "Little Red Corvette," and > "Let's Go Crazy," Prince claims he is sitting atop a treasure trove of > unreleased songs and has no intention of offering them to the public > while Web piracy goes unchecked. > > "We made money [online] before piracy was real crazy," Prince said in > an interview published last week in The Guardian, a British newspaper. > "Nobody's making money now except phone companies, Apple and > Google...It's like the gold rush out there. Or a carjacking. There's > no boundaries."" > > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20074637-261/prince-compares-web-piracy-to-carjacking/ > > /******************************/ > > "Go the F--- to Sleep is now the No. 1 bestseller on Amazon, and the > book doesn't even come out until next month (it's all based on > pre-orders). What's remarkable is that the book's popularity appears > to be generated almost entirely by viral email forwarding and word of > mouth. A spokesman for the publisher told The Bay Citizen that, "Up > until this week," Ahmad said, "we have done nothing to promote this > book." > > It's fairly common these days for something to sell well because word > about it has gone viral. What's unusual in this case is that the thing > that's gone viral is the entirety of the book itself. Other than the > physical book, buying the thing doesn't get you anything extra. Yet > people are ordering it in droves." > > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385467,00.asp > > /******************************/ > > Hmmm.... > > Kevin > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >
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