“[National Assn. of Recording Merchandisers president Jim] Donio cited statistics about piracy, pointing out that 42% of all music acquisition is paid, and that despite a recent rebound in the first quarter of this year, CD sales continue to drop. He then suggested that a new version of ‘CD 2.0,’ a sort of hybrid compact disc, might be a solution.” Unfortunately, the Billboard piece that mentions this bit of nomenclature doesn’t really get into what “CD 2.0″ will consist of. Perhaps it means that it’ll be more advanced than the DualDisc, which was apparently version 1.92 of the CD? Maybe they’ll all be bundled with a social-networking component! Please, Jim Donio, tell me what you actually mean by using the oh-so-tired “2.0″ appellation, and note: any answer that uses the phrases “Web 2.0″ or “well, we were thinking of putting a screen saver and maybe some mobile wallpapers on the disc” automatically gets a big honking BZZZZT. [Billboard]
Music-Biz Bigwig Thinks That Sticking “2.0″ At The End Of The CD’s Name Will Solve Industry’s Woes
May 6th, 2008 // 7 Comments
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Nothing was worse than in 1996 and on when they started sticking fucking autoloading video and videoplayers on CDs; they sucked, they sucked so hard. Just give us extra songs and a cooly physical package already!
2.0 is so 1.0 its not even funny.
@Tenno: Rasputina’s Frustration Plantation extra was pretty cool. Other than that, yeah, not so much.
I think 2.0 stands for “Let’s forget the lesson Sony learned and just put rootkits on all the CDs again.”
The ‘biz’ needs to get Fitty Cent to make cassette tapes cool again.
@GhostOfDuane: Seriously. Duh.
Geez. I was planning on copyrighting CD 1.5 next week. Guess I should start on 2.5 now. Or maybe even get a big jump on 3.0.
I’m feeling ambitious this week.
@Tenno: Recently I stuck a copy of Fiona Apple’s (what? shut up!) 1996 debut album in my OS X-running Mac, and an icon for a video-interface thingy appeared on my desktop. Thinking, What the hell…, I clicked on it, and it…crashed my computer.
So, yeah, the shelf-life of these embedded CD-ROM programs is apparently a couple of years, tops.