This really isn’t news, it’s just confirmation of what all the other studies have shown but, yet another study has shown that on balance the music and film industries have benefited from online file sharing. The London School of Economics found that music sales have stagnated but overall revenues remain strong with revenues reaching $60…
The Key to Media Profitability is Respect
I talk to alot of people in various media. Most of them don’t really care about file sharing one way or another. The thing I’ve found, with music, is that most of the people I know buy alot of CDs (physical or digital) from artists that they like because they respect the artists and they…
MPAA Declares Victory: Pirate Bay Insurgency Begins
In case you somehow missed the news the Pirate Bay’s founders were fined and sentenced to prison earlier this week. The action touched off immediate protests – but now it is going beyond that. The Twitosphere is buzzing with calls for a full media boycott. At this point any reasonable person can only hope that…
If You Download the Terrorists Win
Jennifer Van Evra at Radio 3 has a talent for finding laughably ridiculous studies that people actually paid for and devoted part of their professional lives to. Last week it was the one about sexy music leading to promiscuity, this week she’s found a study from the Motion Picture Association and the RAND corporation that…
Minority US group calls for end to Canadian film subsidies.
The Film and Television Action Committee filed a petition today in an attempt to get the “U.S. Trade Representative to initiate negotiations with Canada to remove its subsidies.” the group has spent most of it’s energies since 2001, according to the Variety article, on prepping the NAFTA petition. They claim that their petition “represents the…