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EMI (and Apple) have caused a bit of a stir since they announced, on Monday, that they will be taking off the software lock, (also known as DRM — Digital Rights Management), on their entire catalogue on the Apple iTunes Music Store in exchange that the prices will go up.

• Some people think its outrageous that the price goes up just because they remove something that never should have be there in the first place.
• Some people say EMI does this because they are in financial hell and have no other choice than to draw a wild card.
• Some people say Apple are becoming “one of them” (EMI, Universal, SonyBMG, Warner).
• Some people find it an easy target to write a story about.
• Some people don’t have an opinion.
• Some people do think Britney Spears is a good musician.

The fact that “The Big Four” (EMI, Universal, Sony BMG, Warner) are cock-suckers is nothing new. They have always been a dark-brown layer of shit disguised with suit-dressed cock-suckers making shit loads of money by marketing and distributing, in most of the cases, shit to people who just don’t know better.

I’m trying to be honest here.

Now, I don’t want to be like “a Total Apple Preaching Sucker”, but, the way I see it, Apple isn’t trying to join “The Big Four”. Apple are putting a magnifying glass over the whole thing, and erasing some layer of suit-dressed cock-suckers to reveal the shit that lies underneath.

And yes, Apple are doing this because this would benefit themselves more then anyone else. They are ahead of there peers, and the earlier the barrier is broken the more they will earn money from it. Apple is NOT doing this for world peace; to lower the CO2 emissions or stop the power struggle in the Middle East.

But… the music industry… even the porn industry has more morals and ethics.

The way I see it, it’s the evolution of an industry that has been around for a very long time, and sadly ended up doing things for the wrong reasons (read: Greed) and are now paying the price. The movie industry is standing in line. So is the mobile-phone industry. Advertising industry.

Things happens. One thing leads to another. The cause of an event. Life goes on.

I don’t think Justin Frankel knew what impact the WinAmp player would have on the music industry. Neither did Shawn Fanning with his Napster. Max Martin with his plastic 120bpm popsongs. Elvis. Rolling Stones when they sold their ass and smudged the line between Rock ‘n Roll to Pop teamed up with Tommy Hilfiger on their 1999 tour.

A one, a two, a one two three.

“People used to make records, as in a record of an event. The event of people playing music in a room. Now everything is cross-marketing, it’s about sunglasses and shoes or guns or drugs you choose.”

/from the song Fuel by Ani Difranco

Personally I will keep on doing the illegal act of downloading music. I will keep on buying and supporting artists I respect and appreciate. I will go to concerts. I will buy albums from iTunes Music Store when I feel the artist deserves the statistics.

Think about the software industry…
They have always been digital.

If it’s a choice between eternal hell and good tunes and eternal heaven and new kids on the fucking block … I’m gonna be surfing on the lake of fire, rocking out… high five at Satan every time I pass the motherfucking shore.

“Come on, Bill, they’re the New Kids. They’re so good and so clean-cut and they’re such a good image for the children.” Fuck that! When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children? I want my children to listen to people who fucking rocked! I don’t care if they died in puddles of their own vomit. I want someone who plays from his fucking heart!

/Bill Hicks

Hopefully, in my life time, the music industry will be able to stand up straight. Hopefully soon, it will stop eating fleas from its mate’s head. Hopefully, at some point, it will respect its self as an art form, and do what it does best.

Create emotions.

During Topshop’s London Fashion Week, a theft occured. Two black apple macbooks went missing from the venue at Covent Garden. Both these macbooks were set up to automatically upload photos taken using Photobooth to Topshop’s flickr account and the Topshop London Fashion Week website.

Now imagine our enjoyment when yesterday we noticed some new faces on our flickr account.

If you happen to have any information on the possible perpetrators, leave a comment here or here (Flickr) .

view all the evidence here

from vvillovv’s blog