{"id":12520,"date":"2006-06-27T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/27\/the-residents-rock\/"},"modified":"2006-06-27T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T22:40:00","slug":"the-residents-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/27\/the-residents-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"The Residents Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>CNN<\/i> reports on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/06\/26\/music.residents.reut\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming release by The Residents that takes an unusual approach<\/a> to music and digital media:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It contains two blank CDs so that the five episodes, which will be released sequentially during a 10-week period, can be burned after the last one becomes available. A unique code for each package allows users to unlock the subscription at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riverofcrime.com\/theresidents\/Page.aspx?PageID=ffacbb38-77a6-4b57-b1fd-8f4896271885\" target=\"_blank\">riverofcrime.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The package is exclusively available at Virgin Megastore locations in the brick-and-mortar world and at idealcopy.com in cyberspace. A prerecorded version of the project is planned for wider release next year.<\/p>\n<p>The episodes also can be downloaded individually as they are released at all digital music stores. Each episode is priced at $1.99.<br \/>&hellip;<br \/>Customers purchasing the limited-edition digital subscription will also receive digital extras like ringtones and mobile wallpaper as well as materials that can be burned onto the blank CD-Rs, including alternate versions of the &ldquo;River of Crime&rdquo; artwork, scripts and instrumental soundtrack elements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is simply brilliant, although it remains to be seen whether it is a success or not.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great example of how the music industry should embrace technology, offering consumers a reason not to pirate music rather than summarily criminalizing all consumers through the employment of draconian <acronym title=\"Digital Rights Management\">DRM<\/acronym>.  I can&rsquo;t understand why <acronym title=\"Recording Industry Association of America\">RIAA<\/acronym> and <acronym title=\"Motion Picture Association of America\">MPAA<\/acronym> don&rsquo;t get that they are alienating their best customers, who I believe will pay a reasonable price for a desirable product given the opportunity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/music\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/mp3\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/computers\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">computers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/www\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">www<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/drm\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">drm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/shopping\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">shopping<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-115136490325647463?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports on the upcoming release by The Residents that takes an unusual approach to music and digital media: It contains two blank CDs so that the five episodes, which will be released sequentially during a 10-week period, can be burned after the last one becomes available. A unique code for each package allows users &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/27\/the-residents-rock\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Residents Rock&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}