demolition of former Brach’s Candy Factory on Cicero Avenue, Austin
by John Dunlevy
Month: February 2014
Why DRM is the root of all evil
Why DRM is the root of all evil mouthbeef: In my latest Guardian column, What happens with digital rights management in the real world?, I explain why the most important fact about DRM is how it relates to security and disclosure, and not how it relates to fair use and copyright. Most importantly, I propose … Read more
Can you imagine a business in which most of the investments prove to be bad? That was the record business before the collapse—the few massively successful acts were supporting the many who weren’t exactly failures. So, in effect, Robert Palmer’s sales funded the Pogues, and Madonna’s income funded Randy Newman’s idiosyncratic records. This system of corporate arts funding, however wacky, held up until the foundations began to crumble.
David Byrne, How Music Works (San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2012), p 223