January 17, 2008

EMI CDs Building Blocks for China

The Lunatics are amazed by the counter-productive behavior major labels have been using to sell their music. It’s no wonder music has been suffering for so long. As the recent purchaser of EMI Guy Hands discovered, the music company was not functioning like any other business he’d ever seen.
First he discovered the […]

January 9, 2008

Napster wakes up (again)

The Asylum is still growing. Welcome Napster, our first MP3 champion. You are now our first MP3 Lunatic reversion.
We all remember 1999 when this P2P caught fire and turned the conventional music business into the “MP3 lynch mob.” In 2000, BMG pulled a surprise move and bought the fledgling company, front cutting the other […]

January 5, 2008

Butt Boy’s Revenge

It’s the DRM vs. MP3 Showdown at Amazon.com. Time to pull up a comfy chair and watch… the MP3 Lunatics just love a good fight!
Doug Morris is leading the posse of “not to be outdone copyright owners.” This Major Label Gang is trying to knock Steve Jobs – the technology hardware guru – down […]

January 1, 2008

Gravediggers for DRM

The MP3 Lunatics think Eric Nicoli, Doug Morris, Thomas Hesse, and Edgar Bronfman should man the shovels. They were all champions of DRM, and now they have reversed their firmly entrenched positions and leaped aboard the MP3 bandwagon in 2007.
It’s tough to think of these guys as fellow Lunatics. These new MP3 converts […]