Posts tagged “music”
Victory!
I heard some very exciting news just a moment ago; Sony BMG drops DRM! The fight that I was involved in as well through Olen Rikollinen? -campaign was not carried out in vain. All the largest record labels have finally dropped DRM (or have publicly announced to do so). This just made my day.
LeWeb3 Day 1
That’s Hans Rosling going on about how we destroy our planet. He’s one of my new heroes :) The other two are definitely Kevin Rose and Evan Williams – two guys who have done incredible things online in terms of social web. It’s 3.19 am, been awake for almost 24 hours, it’s time to get [...]
100 000 download purchases doesn’t add up
Widescreen mode, a previously unknown band to me, has been quoted in a Kauppalehti article on their record sales online. They have been on the official downloads list for 15 weeks (src) with their single Everlasting Bomb. Kauppalehti has written that the 15 week sales add up to about 100 000 purchased downloads. That’s a [...]
Sony switches to Microsoft’s DRM
Sony has made a strategic move in it’s online music business and has decided to adopt Microsoft’s DRM as a technology for its online content. Sony had been trying push its proprietary ATRAC along with its own music player for PCs. Smart move, although I don’t support DRM that much. I guess Sony was trying [...]
M.A. Numminen – Virallinen Suomi
For the sake of May 1st, this is the song for “The Official Finland”. Pro Patria – happy May 1st :) Sit?§ tiesitk?? ennen ollenkaan maamme kolmeen kastiin jaetaan arkit??iss?§?§n rehkii varsinainen kansa niskan p?§?§ll?§ r??hkii virallinen kansa ja vallan huippu istuu p?§?§ll?§ kaiken kansan P?§?§st?§ tahtoisit Suomeen viralliseen joukkoon kutsuvieraitten iloiseen vaikka paras etu [...]