{"id":1025,"date":"2008-01-08T22:50:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T21:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/the-definition-of-insanity-the-music-industry-revisited\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T22:50:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T21:50:15","slug":"the-definition-of-insanity-the-music-industry-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2008\/01\/the-definition-of-insanity-the-music-industry-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"The definition of insanity \u2026 the Music Industry, revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa, I had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/the-definition-of-insanity-the-music-industry\/\">D\u00e9j\u00e0-vu<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/neue-ideen-in-der-musiktontraegerindustrie\/\">tonight<\/a>, Marco has the full story: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/275\">Sony BMG&#8217;s DRM-free innovation<\/a>&#8220;, anmut und demut <a href=\"http:\/\/anmutunddemut.de\/node\/5650\/\">nails it<\/a> in a (german language) fable (&#8220;Es war einmal im dunklen sterbenden Wald der Musikindustrie ein untoter Riese &#8230;&#8221;), nerdcore has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdcore.de\/wp\/2008\/01\/07\/sony-verkauft-drm-freie-song-offline-oder-so\/\">similar kind words<\/a> for SonyBMG and I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/neue-ideen-in-der-musiktontraegerindustrie\/\">still can&#8217;t believe<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/medienkonvergenz.com\/2008\/01\/07\/drm-freie-musik-bei-sony-bmg-neuer-dummheitsrekord-in-der-musikbranche\/\">this is<\/a> freakin&#8217; true, now in the year 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Funny, I wanted to blog about <a href=\"http:\/\/gerdleonhard.typepad.com\">Gerd Leonhards<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafuturist.com\/2007\/12\/leweb3-discussi.html\">video<\/a> of a panel discussion at LeWeb 3 on the future of the music business anyway. While there aren&#8217;t too many answers if you care for these, it&#8217;s interesting anyway, especially when Gerd says that nothing has changed that much and that his older book (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.endofcontrol.com\/\">The End of Control<\/a>&#8220;) is still valid. Well yes, for SonyBMG for sure &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"440\" height=\"330\"><param name=flashvars value=\"autoPlay=false&#038;autoHide=false&#038;w=440&#038;h=330&#038;\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vpod.tv\/leweb3\/392642\/flash\/nVideoPlayer\"\/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vpod.tv\/leweb3\/392642\/flash\/nVideoPlayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"  FlashVars=\"autoPlay=false&#038;autoHide=false&#038;w=440&#038;h=330&#038;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Now, in the same theme there&#8217;s also hope &#8211; David Byrne offers sound (no pun intended) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/entertainment\/music\/magazine\/16-01\/ff_byrne?currentPage=all\">Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists \u2014 and Megastars<\/a> in Wired (and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/entertainment\/music\/magazine\/16-01\/ff_yorke\">conversation with Thom Yorke<\/a> is great). There might be hope for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/new-revenue-model-for-musicians\/\">real music industry<\/a> after all &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa, I had a D\u00e9j\u00e0-vu tonight, Marco has the full story: &#8220;Sony BMG&#8217;s DRM-free innovation&#8220;, anmut und demut nails it in a (german language) fable (&#8220;Es war einmal im dunklen sterbenden Wald der Musikindustrie ein untoter Riese &#8230;&#8221;), nerdcore has similar kind words for SonyBMG and I still can&#8217;t believe that this is freakin&#8217; true, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11,4,6,8],"tags":[15,26,239,564,81,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}