Trivia NYC/DSO Media

I’m in the middle of polishing tonight’s questions & I have a job interview this afternoon, but just as a follow-up to the last post on the high-level p2p site bust from yesterday (which made it into the Northern Echo), here’s some more reaction and opinion:

From Fiction is Lying:

Anyone that calls something torrent-related a scheme, and suggests that profit is involved, has no idea what they’re saying. Calling it a “pre-release” site is false propaganda as well. Even respectable news sources are regurgitating the same horseshit. Why lie about it if the law has been so blatantly violated?

Via my pal stx:

In an alternative world yesterday’s announcement would have run something along the lines of the following:
“Huge pirate music site legitimised and integrated in new BFI distribution network.”
“Users encouraged to keep torrents open to distribute obscure content for credit and first listens to new work.”
“24-year-old man from Middlesbrough given ‘Extremely lucrative’ position as new music distribution method administrator reporting to Shawn Fanning, head of IFPI.”

From Greg at ipood:

If it was about money then why was the owner of the site [working] at a “large multi-national company”? He wouldn’t need to work, he could live like a king off of the ad revenue. Oink was about community. Oink was about high-quality music. Oink was about saying “fuck you” to the record companies. So fuck you record companies.

From Tim Anderson:

Personally I have long believed that only an all-you-can-eat subscription or license makes sense for legal music downloads and sharing, if indeed people will pay at all.

And finally, over at Mashit they explore the comparisons between Radiohead’s sales model, Oink, and the accepted if ever-more-obsolete current corporate music business model:

Apparently the RIAA doesn’t find it embarrassing to keep spending lots of money suing college kids who enjoy music, while the world is passing them by and the bands that they supposedly represent detach themselves and come up with their own brilliant business models for selling downloads.

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