Oliver Thylmann’s Thoughts

Oh boy. Let me summarize this post on heise for you. Firstof all to put you in the right mind, it seems that the United States Trade Representative Susan Schwag has told CNET News that as long as sites like AllofMP3 exist, the United States will vote against allowing Russia into the WTO. Strong words.

As a few more juicy items, the US worked on Russia to close the site, and Russia did, but it does not seem to be so easy. The thing is that AllofMP3 seems to be legal in Russia, and in the absence of real international copyright law, that kidn of makes it legal it seems. AllofMP3 says that they have license contracts with ROMS and are therefore legal. The industry says that they did not authorize ROMS but that only shows that all is not clear. VISA has been forced to handle credit care handling for AllofMP3. The CEO of AllofMP3 has been brought to court, but has been set free with no charges.

It will be interesting to see how this little play continues. The world is getting smaller and with it, come some problems.

Actually I should be saying last.fm, because it is really where all this is coming from. It’s an amazing start-up and the IT team at Ormigo is raving about it. I still do not get to use it because I don’t really like listening to random music at work. In comes Slacker. It’s an amazing start-up with some real talent behind it that kind of makes your last.fm mobile. They are building a portable device, and best of all a car stereo system. That system will use something similar to last.fm. You can say if you like or hate a song, and skip 6 songs per hour and have quasi personal radio through that.

The device will connect to the Slacker network through Satellite and and WiFi whenever a network is available and update the available songs on the internal hard disk. This means you always get fresh songs. Great stuff. I do want that in my car. I’d need two profiles but still

The next step then is that I will have a preferred list of some podcast like some special news, some comedy, and more, and that will be played first. Only then I get some random songs. That would and actually will, totally change your radio listening experience, and the cool thing is … you will be able to buy the song with the press of a button. Oh the world is interesting.

BBC is reporting about Koopa. Starting this month, you do not need an album in the shops in physical form anymore in the UK. If you have your song as a buyable item in any of the valid online shops, these sales will be counted too and it seems that Koopa is at place 17 of the unofficial UK charts for Monday, poised to break in the top 40 of the official week charts at the end of the week. Unsigned. No record label. Free. If you speak german and want to read a great book about the music industry, check out Tim Renner’s “Kinder, der Tod ist doch nicht so schlimm.” (Kids, death is not that bad).

Great video. Nice song actually. Check it out.

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That’s something I just presume. I myself am the first proof. Sitting at your computer you can have your own Gotuit channel running and I myself am just listening to their top videos. Very nice indeed and hopping over to buy the All American Rejects Album via iTunes was easy. I was not even helped by Gotuit, but it’s just easier to buy stuff via your pc when you are sitting at your pc listening to music. Thanks Gotuit.

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