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January 10, 2013 // Digital download cards are boring at the merch table but don’t have to be. The coolest thing about downloads is that they can go anywhere, so why do we always pick card stock? //
Digital, Live Music | tagged Digital Downloads, live shows, merch April 25, 2011 Nearly everyone has accepted the new normal today - if you don’t let your fans buy it, they will steal it. Even the major labels (the last people to any progressive idea these days) have gotten the message and have started to release singles on iTunes the second they go to radio. The memo is spreading across the music business fast - Always Be Available (ABA) or lose the chance to make a sale and earn a fan.
Distribution, digital music | tagged Digital Downloads, fans, illegal music downloads, leak September 10, 2010 YAWMA, an online community and marketplace, launched today. The service allows users to discover, download and share high-quality independently produced digital content through Facebook and earn cash rewards for their participation. YAWMA launched with both independent music and game content.
Technology | tagged Digital Downloads, facebook, file sharing, indie, ping July 30, 2010 It wasn’t the beginning of the end, just a harbinger of it. Subsequent formats such as aac, ogg later sprang up based around the same ideas, and the overall concept had already been made a reality by prior formats such as ac3 and mp2 - they just didn’t do it as *well* as mp3 did. Discard psycho-acoustically negligible information to gain a 5-12x reduction in file size - meaning a song could comfortably and easily be ported around the internet, even in the days of dialup.
It’s amusing to me now that the idiotic reasons used to justify piracy now were the same idiotic reasons given to me at the outset. 1999, a fellow university student told me about this new thing called MP3, which, due to the aforementioned properties, would allowed us to ‘stick it to the fat cats of the music industry’. Laughably, sadly, the social experiment that is filesharing has shown a picture of a harsher, not gentler world, wherein the consumer and cohorts-in-trade the anarchist, the internet freedom-fighter, and even the starry-eyed (and easily influenced) teenager, are all as duplicitous as the aforementioned ‘fat cats’. Just as ignoble, exactly as precious, demanding, and greedy.
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