Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Buoyancy

I stumbled upon this article from a couple months ago in The Economist entitled "How to Sink Pirates" (the article is "Primium Content" on their website,** but if you are on the Berry College intranet, you can read it here). In it, the author argues that the "best way to discourage it is to offer a diverse range of attractive, legal alternatives." However, the author suggests that these alternatives are things like dollar songs on the iTunes Music Store. But 35% goes straight to Apple. The other 65% goes to the Record Label. The actual artist sees very little of that.

**EDIT (10/8/11): I find this really ironic. See this for the DRM-free revolution equivalent of academia articles.

In other news, IncontipleXion competed at the Battle of The Bands at St. Pius X Catholic School in Atlanta. If you were there, I hope you had a good time; I know we did. The winners were a progressive dethcore band, This Night I Possess. They were absolutely amazing. If you're into that kind of music, check them out. And one last thing, I am in the process of putting together a hardcore industrial/experimental group under the name Crimson Dominion. I've got a few songs written, so if anyone is interested it joining, toss me an email.