Film is dead and the music industry is killing itself.
Polaroid announced on Friday that it was getting out of the film business, which by my reckoning makes film officially dead for still photography. The company says that it is interested in licensing its technology, but somehow I don't see any buyers for what is by now an irrelevant product.
Meanwhile, the RIAA is at it again in what seems increasingly like an attempt to piss off consumers until we stop buying music from the big labels altogether. On Friday, the top weasel was speaking at a conference in Washington, DC and was (I think) trying to make some kind of intelligent response to the recent realization that filtering for copyrighted content at the ISP level would not work because users could easily break such a system by encrypting file-sharing traffic. And this is the stink bomb that came out: move the filtering software to user's computers. As it I'm going to put software on my machine to break any of its functionality. Sorry, RIAA, that is what we call a virus. The perhaps 10% of users who are computer literate enough to use P2P software but not enough to recognize a blatant threat when they see it is not going to get things back to the days when the big label's business model made sense.
After this monumental gaffe, the RIAA parachuted in a spokeperson to say that the big weasel was "simply musing" and that the direction the filtering strategy would take had not been decided. Yeah, nice try. Enjoy the ride into irrelevancy, it won't stop anytime soon.
Audio pundit Steve Guttenberg finally found a home theatre system he likes in the Kipnis Studio Standard, which has a projector capable of four times the resolution of the maximum HDTV standard (1080p) and delivers 11 315 W from 8 speakers and 8 subwoofers. It cost 6 million dollars, takes up a garage-sized room, and will send your power bill through the roof and your neighbors running for cover, but it does get the Guttenberg stamp of approval. It's also one of the most disgusting cases of overkill I have ever seen.
And finally, those of you suffering from the debilitating condition of Blackberry Thumb can now soothe those aches and pains with a specially designed brace. Mike Yamamoto over at Crave struggles to find an adequate description of what the thing looks like. I know what: the Goa'uld hand device from Stargate SG-1. Creepy.
Meanwhile, the RIAA is at it again in what seems increasingly like an attempt to piss off consumers until we stop buying music from the big labels altogether. On Friday, the top weasel was speaking at a conference in Washington, DC and was (I think) trying to make some kind of intelligent response to the recent realization that filtering for copyrighted content at the ISP level would not work because users could easily break such a system by encrypting file-sharing traffic. And this is the stink bomb that came out: move the filtering software to user's computers. As it I'm going to put software on my machine to break any of its functionality. Sorry, RIAA, that is what we call a virus. The perhaps 10% of users who are computer literate enough to use P2P software but not enough to recognize a blatant threat when they see it is not going to get things back to the days when the big label's business model made sense.
After this monumental gaffe, the RIAA parachuted in a spokeperson to say that the big weasel was "simply musing" and that the direction the filtering strategy would take had not been decided. Yeah, nice try. Enjoy the ride into irrelevancy, it won't stop anytime soon.
Audio pundit Steve Guttenberg finally found a home theatre system he likes in the Kipnis Studio Standard, which has a projector capable of four times the resolution of the maximum HDTV standard (1080p) and delivers 11 315 W from 8 speakers and 8 subwoofers. It cost 6 million dollars, takes up a garage-sized room, and will send your power bill through the roof and your neighbors running for cover, but it does get the Guttenberg stamp of approval. It's also one of the most disgusting cases of overkill I have ever seen.
And finally, those of you suffering from the debilitating condition of Blackberry Thumb can now soothe those aches and pains with a specially designed brace. Mike Yamamoto over at Crave struggles to find an adequate description of what the thing looks like. I know what: the Goa'uld hand device from Stargate SG-1. Creepy.
Labels: big bad business, dumb ideas, Polaroid, product lust, pundits
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