Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

Tag: music business

  • Our ‘digital economy’ is still a circular firing squad

    Our ‘digital economy’ is still a circular firing squad

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    The British ISP industry has spent a small fortune of its customers’ money fighting the people who would, in a saner world, be its business partners – only to suffer a crushing defeat. On Tuesday Lord Justice Richards threw out BT and TalkTalk’s judicial review against the 2010 Digital Economy Act. Yet as trench warfare…

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  • Why power follows platforms

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    This is a story with huge implications for the future of the web. Even if you don’t use Facebook or Spotify – I don’t – and couldn’t care less, you can nevertheless start to see how business relationships will develop. Last week’s alliance between Facebook and Spotify turns out to be a much better deal…

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  • Web requires Brunel-scale thinking

    Web requires Brunel-scale thinking

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Three years ago I caught a glimpse of a new social network built around music. You could follow people, chat with them, and enjoy the same music stream in real time. There were many other clever things about it, such as a very slick integration of music news. But the killer feature, one that made…

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  • Facebook, Tesco and music platforms

    Facebook, Tesco and music platforms

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    Andrew Orlowski

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  • Button it, Bob

    Button it, Bob

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    More hysterical shrieking reaches us about Apple’s new music feature, I’m afraid. Earlier this week a lone lawyer said that iTunes Match, which populates an online store with songs you already have, encourages infringement. Well, this one is even nuttier. It’s actually so spectacularly muddle-headed, I thought it might be is a good time to…

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  • How NOT to do a music levy

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    The European Court has upheld the right of copyright businesses in the EU to ask for a ‘private copying levy’, but slapped down Spain for applying it indiscriminately. The Court was hearing a case brought by the Spanish music collecting society SGAE against a storage vendor called Padewan. Spain provides a case study in how…

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