As distribution of music (and movies and television shows including music) go increasingly digital and becoming more and more widespread, composers and songwriters are getting less money, not more. Is this because of wholesale piracy?

No. It’s actually far more interesting than that.

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Aug 26 2009

Destructoid makes a few observations on the death-toll of video-games (murders, suicides and so forth) [thanks for the link, Tigro].

I’m going to add a couple extra data points here.

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Jul 22 2009

...at least, not yet! Actually, this is a bit embarrassing. You see there was this place called White Lightning Productions (a comics publisher) – well, more specifically their WLP shirts division. I was going to write a piece about them for some very clever, witty and some genuinely laugh-out-loud geek and gamer tee-shirts.

Only now they’re advertising on my sidebar, quite unexpectedly (at least at the time I’m writing this), which makes me feel a bit awkward about actually posting about them. But darn it all, I was planning on writing about them anyway!

doit-d20v So, I’m not sleeping with them (or with Captain Jack Harkness, darnit!), it’s just one of those coincidences.


Loud. Very loud. Music. Effects. Explosions.

By contrast the voices are soft. Much, much softer. You have to crank the volume up to get a good listening volume for the voices, and the – and I use the term advisedly – background music is loud enough to make the neighbours look up.

Where’d the balance go?

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