Comments on: Could shutting down Pandora open Pandora’s box?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:03:26 +0000

You’d think at least *somebody* in the room would have said “hang on a minute! We’re being fucking ridiculous here! Think of how much money we could earn!”

You would. But in my experience, it’s very rare for anyone in the corporate world to state the bleedin’ obvious, even when everyone knows what it is. It’s a kind of collective lack of responsibility fostered by the bureaucracy.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:10:32 +0000

Heh. I really don’t get the way royalties have been set for online radio. You’d think at least *somebody* in the room would have said “hang on a minute! We’re being fucking ridiculous here! Think of how much money we could earn!”

In other news, Metallica became available on Napster today. Several years after appearing on iTunes, and even more years since anybody gave a fuck :)

By: Stephen

Stephen — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:54:52 +0000

You fail to appreciate the subtle cunning of the recording industry. If they manage to get troublesome purveyors of new technology to shut down, then everyone will go back to buying CDs as God intended and they’ll be rolling in money again!

P2P?? La-la-la, they can’t hear yoooouuu….