In this extra weekend edition of NerdBoyTV, Ryan Yee talks about the No. 1 BLUNDER of all-times in the music industry (it use to be the guy who passed on The Beatles...guess what it is NOW?) and how the Playstation 2 (NOT PS3, XBox, or Wii) is burning up the cash registers now that we're officially in a recession!
Biggest Record Company Screw-Ups of All Time on Yahoo! Music: "The talent scout who turned down the Beatles has long been credited with committing the music industry's biggest gaffe.
But Dick Rowe's billion-dollar boo-boo has been beaten to the top spot on Blender magazine's list of the '20 biggest record company screw-ups of all time' by the failure of record companies to capitalize on the Internet.
The major labels took top dishonors for driving file-sharing service Napster out of business in 2001, instead of figuring out a way to make money from its tens of millions of users. The downloaders merely scattered to hundreds of other sites, and the industry has been in a tailspin ever since.
'The labels' campaign to stop their music from being acquired for free across the Internet has been like trying to cork a hurricane -- upward of a billion files are swapped every month on peer-to-peer networks,' Blender said in the report, which appears in its newly published April issue."
Price is Right for Playstation 2 - Video Game Feature - Yahoo! Video Games: "Wave goodbye to the Wii, pass on the PS3 and pull a 180 on the 360 - if you're looking for a way to play great games without breaking the bank, you're looking for the Playstation 2. We know it sounds crazy, but provided you're not overly concerned with cutting-edge graphics and online gaming, Sony's last-generation console still offers plenty of gaming thrills at a fraction of the cost of the newer systems."
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