Michael Boyle's weblog
back up and running… I used to run it 24/7 as a video stream, but then we put in a firewall and I quit. But it seems to fit on this here blog, so – back in business. I’m not 100% convinced it’s going to stay yet though.
Notice the exposed brick, by the way. A webwerks trademark, I think.
of the other parts of this little site are going up. But that’s all until after work.
While Dr Dre and Metallica are both talking about suing Napster, record company people are starting to get it. Wired News reports that the majors are going to offer downloadable music in a big way this summer. Quote: “Although the recording industry has complained that some services that offer downloadable online music violate copyright laws and cut into a label’s profits, company sales actually are up.”
It’s promising in one way, but the article is also pretty depressing, because the contradiction between Metallica/Napster and what the labels are planning to do indicates that the artists are probably going to be squeezed by this whole thing.
to me from his blog, passerby (cool), but I hadn’t yet started to use the permalink thingie. So now I have – it’s the little star after each post.
