Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

Tag: music business

  • Legal P2P fails (again)

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    “The EFF doesn’t have a plan, they barely have a theory,” Jim Griffin’s bold plan to take P2P file sharing out of the black economy, and into the one that deals with green folding stuff, flopped because it couldn’t explain to songwriters how they’d get paid.… Read More

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  • French taxpayer to subsidise music buyers

    French taxpayer to subsidise music buyers

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    The European Commission has approved a French scheme to subsidise music downloads for 15-25 year olds. The taxpayer will contribute €25 per user per year to every “Carte Musique” cardholder, which entitles the user to €50 worth of downloads. The cardholder will stump up the other half of the cost of the card. The proposal…

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  • Breaking Google’s last taboo

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Google has traditionally charged into other business areas with all the subtlety of a bull in a china shop. This isn’t always a bad thing: there are plenty of cosy industries that are ripe for a shake-up, and advertising is one of the cosiest. But there’s one area that’s been strictly taboo. Google has always…

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  • A Martin Mills interview

    A Martin Mills interview

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    The Beggars Group office in a suburban street in Wandsworth doesn’t look much like a media corporation. There’s no chocolate ice sculpture in reception, and no giant video screens or inspirational slogans. It does look a lot like you’d expect a real independent record company to look, though: behind the receptionist’s desk is the kitchen…

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  • Open Rights Group musters Flash Mob… of 7

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Music House — HQ for a number of the UK music industry’s trade groups — was in a lock-down situation this lunchtime as an Open Rights Group Flash Mob descended, protesting against the Digital Economy Bill. As many as seven protesters could be seen outside the Berners Street offices, according to staff who phoned us…

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  • The problem with ‘substitution’ studies…

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    A study for the international chamber of commerce reckons 2.7 million jobs have been lost since 2004 in Europe because of unlicensed internet downloads, and warns economic losses could treble to €32bn by 2015. The report is backed by trade unions, including the TUC. The work was led by Patrice Geffon, an economist at Paris…

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