Dark days ahead in Mordor, for the content cartel (I hope).
Interesting things have come together in the last few days. Two of
the biggest bands around dump their labels very publicly.
Radiohead: http://www.inrainbows.com/Store/Quickindex2.html
Radiohead have made a new album.
So far, it is only available from this website.
You can pre-order it in these formats:
Diskbox and download.
Nine Inch Nails: http://www.nin.com/
08 October 2007: Big News
Hello everyone. I've waited a LONG time to be able to make the
following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally
free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. I have
been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the
business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very
different and it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a
direct relationship with the audience as I see fit and appropriate.
Look for some announcements in the near future regarding 2008.
Exciting times, indeed.
posted by Trent Reznor at 10:45 AM. 1298 Comments
And then, this presentation by the general manager of Yahoo! Music -
one given to an audience of record industry executives, where he lets
them have it with both barrels: http://www.fistfulayen.com/blog/?p=127
I'm here to tell you today that I for one am no longer
going to fall into this trap. If the licensing labels
offer their content to Yahoo! put more barriers in
front of the users, I'm not interested. Do what you
feel you need to do for your business, I'll be polite,
say thank you, and decline to sign. I won't let Yahoo!
invest any more money in consumer inconvenience. I
will tell Yahoo! to give the money they were going to
give me to build awesome media applications to Yahoo!
Mail or Answers or some other deserving endeavor. I
personally don't have any more time to give and can't
bear to see any more money spent on pathetic attempts
for control instead of building consumer value. Life's
too short. I want to delight consumers, not bum them
out.
My take? YEE-HAW! About fscking time!
Udhay
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