{"id":182723,"date":"2015-06-22T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/22\/i-never-thought-that-i-would-her-to-my-list-of-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off\/"},"modified":"2015-06-22T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T23:36:00","slug":"i-never-thought-that-i-would-her-to-my-list-of-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/06\/22\/i-never-thought-that-i-would-her-to-my-list-of-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off\/","title":{"rendered":"I Never Thought That I Would Her to My List of, &#8220;People I Do Not Want to Piss Off.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Dwj7Gl4.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Dwj7Gl4.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>But Taylor Swift has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2015\/06\/22\/apple_taylor_swift\/\">earned her entry into the most noble order of the &#8220;People I Do Not Want to Piss Off<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor: 1 \u2014 Apple: 0:<span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Tech oligarchs aren\u2019t supposed to say sorry. And no, Apple hasn\u2019t formally apologized to the music community for demanding that it works for Apple for free, Apple still comes out of it with plenty of credit.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">Ten days ago, the contracts for Apple\u2019s new Spotify-ish streaming service leaked out, and they contained an unprecedented request. Apple said artists and rights owners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2015\/06\/16\/apple_nopayforplays_streaming_risks_indie_boycott\/\">would not be paid for music streamed<\/a> during the service&#8217;s first three months. During that time, the service will be offered for free to people, and then rise to something like ten bucks a month.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">Typically, streaming pays almost nothing today \u2013 fractions of a penny. The segment numbers tens of millions of paying subscribers, and hasn\u2019t achieved scale. But this, from Apple, was genuinely nothing: a big, fat zero. The story flew onto the business pages. Only bottom-feeding pirate websites used artists&#8217; work without paying them, and it looked like Apple was diving into the cesspit of file-sharers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">Within hours of the world\u2019s biggest pop star weighing in on the side of the indies, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2015\/06\/22\/cupertino_capitulates_to_taylor_swift_will_pay_royalties_during_trial\/\">Apple caved in<\/a>. Taylor Swift livened up Sunday with a devastating open letter to Apple, explaining her music wouldn\u2019t be on Apple Music.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">By the evening, Apple\u2019s content chief Eddy Cue was tweeting, and phoning reporters, to tell say the no-royalties period was scrapped. Artist will believe it when they see the new contracts arrive: the trial-period royalty may be lower than the regular royalty. But that\u2019s still an epic turnaround \u2013 and Apple emerges looking better than anyone expected last week.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">Apple clearly wants Apple Music to succeed \u2013 and many artists and rights owners want it to succeed, too. This is surprising on the face of it, given that Apple pays barely more than streaming services. (Again, we\u2019ll wait for the first royalty statements before seeing whether this is true.)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;Well played, Ms. Swift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Taylor Swift has earned her entry into the most noble order of the &#8220;People I Do Not Want to Piss Off&#8220;. Taylor: 1 \u2014 Apple: 0: Tech oligarchs aren\u2019t supposed to say sorry. And no, Apple hasn\u2019t formally apologized to the music community for demanding that it works for Apple for free, Apple still &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,997,1137,1028,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-internet","category-music","category-people-i-do-not-want-to-piss-off","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}