To file share music is illegal, period. There is nothing to discuss. - Per Sundin, CEO Universal Music Sweden. No wonder why change is so absent. When the highest chief of the biggest company in the business in my part of the world doesn't want to discuss the most important change in recent history we have a problem. The origin of the quote is that a Swedish newspaper referred to a shortend version of the latest Metallica album on The Pirate Bay. The review concluded that the edited album was better than ...Read More

The entire problem in one quote

Take a look at these pictures: Hasselblads empty head office It's pictures of the abandoned head office of legendary camera maker Hasselblad in Sweden, taken by an Urban explorer that takes pictures of abandoned places. The caption to the images are in Swedish, some of them goes like this, freely translated: "The head office of Hasselblad is EMPTY! What happened? Did lighting strike? - Moores law struck The law was formulated by Gordon Moore in 1965. He did an observation: it was possible to do computer chips twice as powerful every 18th month, to the ...Read More

Hasselblad – Which office is next?

In the post "Complicated entertainment laws" I wrote about how Warner Brother's TheWB.com wouldn't allow users outside of the U.S to enter the site and how they instead displayed a message telling users to write their governments to "fight this injustice". It seems as the complaint got to Warner since the message now only says: The WB can only be viewed in the United States. Great! Thanks Warner for listening and acting on this little thing, shall we now proceed with the bigger issues? Read More

TheWB.com update

Newteevee and the Korean Times are reporting that Sony Pictures has left South Korea because of "sluggish sales and rampant piracy". Sony wasn't first to abandon the Korean market though – appearantly Paramount, Universal, Buena Vista and 20th Century Fox have all left which means no big Hollywood studio is operating in the country. This is important news and means the DVD Industry is actually dead in South Korea - and the death is spreading! South Korea's DVD sales has rapidly been falling in the recent years ($673 million in 2002 vs. ...Read More

The death of the DVD?