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Archive for the 'New Media' Category

Big mistake for Google… another nail in DRM’s coffin

by @ Monday, August 13th, 2007. Filed under Emerging, New Media

Oh, Google… leaving your premium (paying) Google Video customers in the lurch is a big mistake that may tarnish your brand for some time to come. An expiring credit won’t cut it with most of them.
It’s also yet another nail in the coffin for DRM. Can you hear the chorus of “I told you so!” […]

R U Sirius, XM?

by @ Thursday, February 22nd, 2007. Filed under Emerging, New Media, New Paradigms, podcasting

It’s not often that The Portable Consultant scoops The Economist… well, not exactly but sort of…
Back in July of 2005 I suggested here that Internet options (like podcasting) would compete with satellite radio. I followed this up with a couple of posts… here… and here.
Today The Economist commented on the pending merger of XM and […]

DRM days numbered

by @ Wednesday, February 7th, 2007. Filed under Multimedia, New Media, New Paradigms

Steve Jobs’ already famous Thoughts on Music probably marks the end of DRM.
Certainly it will take time, but when a major force like Apple iTunes’ boss suggests that the world would be better off without DRM you can be sure they are also working behind the scenes to promote this vision.
The statistics on the percent of […]

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