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by ethank 15y ago
It is not hard to keep a record from leaking: just don't allow pre-releases, or watermark them, or MSI them (MSI makes the disk violate redbook so it can't be ripped). The whole reason that NPR and the like get a record one week before stre
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by ethank 15y ago
Explain how the traditional label structure is killed by online labels showing up in Pandora.
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by ethank 15y ago
So can they. The answer is: its the music industry, which welcomes broad generalizations and rash judgement.
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by ethank 15y ago
Likely its some hack eyed windowing strategy that someone thought of. Just like with the last REM record (which was the last I worked on), they did 3 different singles in different territories. It could be because: - Retail exclusive partne
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by ethank 15y ago
Come on people, do some research: This is because Paul Simon is what is typical of an artist of his age: He is handled ex-US (International) by Universal Music Domestically, as of last year he is Sony Music Worldwide until last year, he was
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Technology: Stacks, Platforms and Anarchy(blackrimglasses.com)
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by ethank 16y ago
Owning a label would be like Google buying CAA. They wouldn't know what to do with it. Amazing how many people chastise Google for killing acquisitions but seriously think they should represent people as crazy as artists?
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by ethank 16y ago
To a degree the broad points are still valid. However the economics are a lot more complicated now because of 360 deals. A while ago, labels realized that if they were investing a lot into a band on things like art, tour support, promotions
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by ethank 16y ago
Right now I'm "semi retired" so my alarm clock is my 22 month year old son shouting at us through the baby monitor. When I was working, my trick was this: I made a stack of stuff on top of my alarm clock (my iPhone) by my bed in the morning
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by ethank 16y ago
And what exactly does "they're done" get you? How far do you extend the IP rug pulling?
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by ethank 16y ago
When it is no longer necessary. Which to me means when music labels (or what every they will be at this point) no longer feel the need to cooperate and instead act as a retail/service business.
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by ethank 16y ago
A few things, and I'm speaking as a (now former) major label executive: Google should not buy a label or a music company. It wouldn't make sense at all. The friction going on right now is because Google views music as something that the lab
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by ethank 16y ago
Give me a break. Artists are "forced to sign"? Since when? Artists with good contracts retain master rights after a period. An artist signs to a major label fully knowing what they are going to get. They do this in exchange for the possibil
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by ethank 16y ago
Github for source control, probably Firewall Install if we could afford it. - Pivotal Tracker for agile bug tracking. - Basecamp for non-programmer interaction and tracking (ie, mocks, UX, QA, etc) - Campfire with custom bots for inter-grou
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by ethank 16y ago
For me the "socializing" is loosing relevancy as the number of types of media I can create increases. I'd love to see social networks function as pathways for my media in a better way than Facebook currently does it.
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by ethank 16y ago
I run 8 miles every other day during the week, and 10-15 on sunday (doing slightly more right now because of the LA marathon coming up) Off days I do weight training. I need to get a kettle ball and try that. I also need to join a gym again
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by ethank 16y ago
TestFlightApp.com is really good for this, doing OTA downloads and such.
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by ethank 16y ago
MRTG was thrown because of activity on other sites, but here's the online user count during Oprah, relative values: This is east coast feed. Central feed and PST feeds are often more. http://imgur.com/lrgcs
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by ethank 16y ago
I have an artist on Oprah today, so I'll post a snapshot of the MRTG and Cacti graphs after. The "Oprah Effect" is very strange, as its three timezones with differing behavior.
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by ethank 16y ago
Rushmore It Might Get Loud - documentary about Jimmy Page, Jack White and the Edge
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by ethank 16y ago
Here's the biggest problem with Rockmelt: http://plixi.com/p/55680955 It assumes I have a singular window to the virtual world, and yet its social experience model of sidebars does not scale well when applied linearly to the way I consume
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by ethank 16y ago
Here's a picture. I should add what they do: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethank/5156591437/ I use the left screen for iTunes, Pivotal Tracker and a VNC console to a screen of "tops" running on all our servers. We call it the War Games Co
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by ethank 16y ago
I'm an SVP at a music company, running our Emerging Technology group. It means I'm half CTO and half business development. What Hardware I use: Work Primary: - Mac Pro, 8 core, 3.03 ghz with 16 gigs of RAM. 4 TB of hard drive space, and dua
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by ethank 16y ago
We don't need more chrome, more social in the browser. If anything we need less chrome, and more of a sense of workplace management around the types of sites we visit. I'd rather the site dictate my social experience, and let the browser he
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by ethank 16y ago
I just bought a house (chronicled it at http://blackrimglasses.com ). My last townhouse was also automated. Here's the general setup: We use Insteon for the automation system, hooked into a MacMini running Indigo from Perceptive Automation
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by ethank 16y ago
I have the lucky position of having to do scaling for not only Oprah, but american idol, the superbowl, x factor, inaugurations and more. we have had artists on Oprah many times, probably a dozen in the last five years. It has nearly no eff
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by ethank 16y ago
In my opinion (its not in my purview), it'll take government help. Take that for what you will.
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by ethank 16y ago
I wager it's a bit more complicated than that.
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by ethank 16y ago
Again, have you ever visited or spoken to anyone at a label? Next time you are in SoCal, email me. I'm serious. :)
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by ethank 16y ago
A question, honestly: have you ever visited or spoken to anyone at a label?

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