Interesting Links for 19-1-2011

[andrewducker]

• Music companies to sell singles as soon as they are played on the radio. Why the fuck weren't they already doing this?
  (tags: music business industry piracy)
• Stephen Fry explains how GPS and the Internet work. And fails, miserably.
  (tags: stephenfry technology internet gps funny)
• Labour and Conservatives team up to fight human rights
  (tags: rights law labour conservatives uk)
• Fear of Spiders Can Develop Before Birth
  (tags: fear spiders)
• Gay couple win disctrimination case against B&B that wouldn't rent them a double room.
  (tags: religion lgbt rights uk)

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I envisage some sort of a flowchart. "What's wrong? People aren't buying the stuff I want to sell. Conclusion: THEN SELL IT TO THEM, DUMBASS!" I mean, selling things to people who want them is like rule one in capitalism, if you're not doing that, no WONDER your business model isn't working :)

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

i basically don't buy major label music anymore, on the grounds that I refuse to give money to people *that* fucking stupid.

this is just another example of music execs being about a decade behind the industry they're supposed to run. Albeit a spectacularly baffling and revealing one