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BBC pulling back from the DAByss?
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Andrew Orlowski
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Simply because Tim Davie, the BBC’s new radio chief, has a background in advertising and marketing, that isn’t a reason to assume everything he says is a lie. It’s more charitable to say he’s well practiced in the dark acts of spinning, having learnt the trade at Pepsi and Proctor and Gamble. And so you…
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RIP, Pirate Bay (Notes on an Exit Strategy)
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Andrew Orlowski
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“So The Pirate Bay has executed the Web 2.0 business plan to perfection: give someone else’s stuff away for free – then find a bigger idiot to buy the company.” It’s actually not so different from the potted history of every media company that rises to popularity on the back of a new medium –…
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Spotify founder hints at video, P2P sharing, world domination
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Andrew Orlowski
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Ek said the buying habits of 80 per cent of Spotify users were unchanged, 10 per cent were buying more music, and 20 per cent were buying fewer sound recordings. No, this doesn’t add up to 100 …Read more at The Register…
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Spotify’s numbers – an exclusive peek
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Andrew Orlowski
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A month on, I’m still reading that Spotify’s financials and subscriber numbers are a mystery. Not here, they’re not. Move over Fifty Quid bloke – and make way for 14p man. Statements seen by The Register indicate that’s all the hit music service Spotify makes per user from its advertising-supported business. The difference is the…
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“A country bumpkin approach to slinging generalizations around”
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Andrew Orlowski
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WiReD magazine Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson has copped to lifting chunks of material for his second book Free from Wikipedia and other sources without credit. But it could be about to get a lot worse. In addition to the Wikipedia cut’n’pastes, Anderson appears to have lifted passages from several other texts too. And in a quite…
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Inside Adam Curtis’ funhouse
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Andrew Orlowski
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After a few promises not to spoil the plot, I stepped through Punchdrunk’s It Felt Like A Kiss while the sets were being built Read more at The Register…