Things that make you go hmmmm....
/******************************/ "Prince, one of the most versatile and influential music acts of the past 30 years, refuses to release any more music until the Internet cleans up its act. Best known for such hits as "Purple Rain," "Little Red Corvette," and "Let's Go Crazy," Prince claims he is sitting atop a treasure trove of unreleased songs and has no intention of offering them to the public while Web piracy goes unchecked. "We made money [online] before piracy was real crazy," Prince said in an interview published last week in The Guardian, a British newspaper. "Nobody's making money now except phone companies, Apple and Google...It's like the gold rush out there. Or a carjacking. There's no boundaries."" http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20074637-261/prince-compares-web-piracy-to-carjacking/ /******************************/ "Go the F--- to Sleep is now the No. 1 bestseller on Amazon, and the book doesn't even come out until next month (it's all based on pre-orders). What's remarkable is that the book's popularity appears to be generated almost entirely by viral email forwarding and word of mouth. A spokesman for the publisher told The Bay Citizen that, "Up until this week," Ahmad said, "we have done nothing to promote this book." It's fairly common these days for something to sell well because word about it has gone viral. What's unusual in this case is that the thing that's gone viral is the entirety of the book itself. Other than the physical book, buying the thing doesn't get you anything extra. Yet people are ordering it in droves." http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385467,00.asp /******************************/ Hmmm.... Kevin _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
