I just love this post from TechDirt that explores how various members of Old Media - music, Hollywood, newpapers - have responded to the impending changes forced upon them by New Media:
“One of the interesting people I met at last week’s Princeton workshop was Douglas Dixon, who points out that almost all 20th-century media companies [...]
Last night I was at a great birthday dinner downstairs at the “chefs table” at Blue Ribbon. Lots of cool people there and I got into a chat with a guy who works for an eBooks publisher.
Our conversation started with the Kindle - an eReader that is promoted by Amazon and the first one to [...]
Two separate stories highlight the difficult, and I would argue pointless, attempts by various companies to impose either DRM or other locks that make it impossible for end-users to have complete control over the date or hardware they’ve gotten.
First, DownloadSquad has the story on the BBC:
“The release of BBC’s new iPlayer brought with it the typical suffocating [...]
TechDirt sounds off on Hollywood’s ongoing inability to create a customer-friendly distribution system:
“And the reasons they’ve flopped are frankly pretty obvious: high prices, restrictive DRM, and no easy way to move videos to the device of your choice. I won’t re-hash those arguments, but I think it’s interesting to compare the anemic development of the [...]
LostRemote has a brief look on the latest restrictions the MLB is placing on websites in terms of what sorts of pro baseball footage they are allowed to distribute.
It sounds like an extremely rigid and mean-spirited set of guidelines that are meant to ensure people are forced to go to the official MLB site for [...]
PaidContent has learned that the big media forces behind the TV show streaming website Hulu is exploring creating a similar portal for music, pairing up with MySpace:
“The constant in both instances is content for equity. Under this scheme, MySpace would be the operator with the major music labels—Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group [...]
