anyway Is Universal Music really that out of touch with how the world works? It’s attacking online video sites that promote its music. It’s testing DRM-free music in a way that’s likely to fail and apparently wants to claim ownership of CDs it gave away. The company is also trying to push makers of music playing devices to pay Universal a cut for no good reason. The latest may be the best yet, however. Not realizing what a global world we have these days and the easy ability for products in one market to be shipped to another, Universal Music released a CD in Europe only, with a plan to release a US version months later. Yes, this was pretty common for years — but it’s ridiculous to do that these days, because people in the US will still hear about the CD and order it as an import. Now, here’s where Universal Music gets even more ridiculous: it’s threatening the stores that are selling the import. Again, it seems to think it owns something that it really does not own. And, as the link here points out, all this really does is push customers who actually want to buy the CD to go online and download the music from a file sharing site. That takes a special level of incompetence. First, you make a really bad business decision that doesn’t reflect the reality of the market, and then to cover it up, you threaten legal action and drive willing customers away to other sources. Nice work. I have this floating around somewhere dell sees growth in Asia
(AP) AP - Dell Inc. expects shipments of personal computers, notebooks and servers in Asia excluding China, Japan and South Korea to grow almost 20 percent in 2007, a company executive said Thursday. You can also check this out…. money, it’s a gas Edmonton Sun - Frank avoids profiling the usual suspects (Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Warren Buffet) and instead interviews little-known but fascinating men like jet-setting timber baron Tim Blixseth, who can’t stop building empires even when he’s a billionaire … This is also interesting information decision reached in Vonage, Sprint patent case
(Reuters) Reuters - A U.S. federal court has reached a
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