…And quite sooner than I expected I must say. Since the beginning of this blog I’ve been complaining about my experience with the distribution of music and I was hoping that sooner or later artists would come to realize that the best way of getting their music was over the internet and giving it away [...]
OiNK shut down by British / Dutch police
Two months of investigation, and the FSM knows how much money took for the Interpol and other authorities to take under arrest the 24 year old dude responsible for one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers out there “OiNK“.
The excuse?
“OiNK was central to the illegal distribution of pre-release music online. This was not a [...]
P2P used as a measurement method
TorrentFreak reports that record labels are currently using P2P networks as a reference on what people are listening. It seems that a few days ago, some emails from Mediadefender got leaked, and TorrentFreak discovered a conversation between someone at Interscope Records and this security company in which they try to find a clear trend for [...]
Nine Inch Nails Open Source Remixes
There were over 200 “open source” remixes delivered to this fan website for Nine Inch Nails. Today I find out that a collection of 21 unofficial remixes is available for download via BitTorrent. There is actually a lot of good stuff there, it’s definitely worth of downloading.
I love it when you can find quality stuff [...]
Anatomy of a leak
Despite labels’ efforts to keep new music under wraps, it’s no longer a question of if an album will appear online before its official release date, but rather when and how. Here’s why.
An extensive explanation of why a new record gets leaked on the internet. I wonder if all these reasons are not related to [...]
Prosumers and the music biz [part3]
Two weeks ago I was talking with Rafael Jimenez (Yahoo! México) about the last 2 posts titled “prosumers and the music biz” and he had it very clear that it the industry has to change or die trying. We were not able to come to a clear idea about the path it should take, but [...]
Prosumers and the music biz [part 2]
I just wanted to point to the fact that I really DO believe in the power of the new media. I believe that leaking the album is in fact the best shot we have, and by far, I don’t mean it in a bad way, the internet is a very powerful tool and I [...]
Prosumers and the music biz
Recently we have finished the new album for Réplica. The process was long, it took almost 2 years to do it. The thing with record making these days (at least for a group of people with lots of dreams and no support whatsoever) is that you’ve got to have at least one “real” job and [...]
This is not a post
I just wanted to say how proud I am because the book “Advertising Now! Online” released under Taschen Books and edited by Julius Wiedemann which compiled the most effective and important online ad campaigns from all around the world includes a project that both my mother Geraldina Jimenez and Rafael Jimenez (my uncle) developed for [...]
Short story about Dixo
In early 2005 I was working with my partner developing special radio shows fully sponsored by a brand. We intended to offer this as a new way of communicating with consumers, and started trying to sell this to Nokia here in Mexico. The obvious issue we found with this idea came when they tried to [...]
