Travis Morrison: Hey Dude From Cracker, I’m Sorry, I Stole Music Like These...
One of the criticisms that can be levelled at David Lowery’s article is the implication that piracy was not a problem until the internet era. This, of course, is nonsense, and Travis Morrison takes an...
View ArticleSome Facts & Insights Into The Whole Discussion Of ‘Ethics’ And Music...
Last post on David Lowery’s article for the day. This article provides a curated tour of all the other ones I’ve just posted (except the Doctorow one, which was based on this). The author provides an...
View ArticleUK record industry demands expansion of the Great Firewall of Britain – Boing...
Cory Doctorow on plans to have more filesharing sites blocked in the UK: The British Phonographic Institute — UK equivalents to the RIAA — are demanding an expansion to the existing Internet censorship...
View ArticlePsy Makes $8.1 Million By Ignoring Copyright Infringements Of Gangnam Style |...
An interesting counterpoint to the idea that you have to enforce copyright to make money from music: A couple of months back, Mike wrote about how Psy’s relaxed attitude to people infringing on his...
View ArticleHow You Turn Music Into Money in 2012 (Spoiler: Mostly iTunes) – Robinson...
Avant-garde cellist Zoe Keating has posted some figures showing her income as a musician, which give some insight into which services generate the most money for the musician. The TL;DR is that...
View Article1 in 5 UK music shoppers abandon high street in favour of internet, report...
FACT Magazine have some statistics on music consumption from a new BPI report. Useful for those A2 students looking into this for coursework: Hardly surprising in the wake of recent events, but a new...
View ArticleBBC News – Music piracy ‘down’ as revenues rise for first time since 1999
A useful report for MEST3 case studies and MEST4 coursework topics. Online music piracy across the world “declined significantly” in 2012, according to a new report. The NPD Group said last year the...
View ArticleRadiohead, Nine Inch Nails, and other digital pioneers sour on ‘pay what you...
Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails were early exponents of the ‘pay what you want’ model for music. This article looks at how they feel about this now, which is not particularly positive. In a newspaper...
View ArticleiTunes Radio: Apple reveals Spotify rival – and says it will be free to...
Apple has unveiled iTunes Radio, an online streaming music radio service which could have up to 300 million users within a year, directly challenging a similar service from Google as well as smaller...
View ArticleBBC News – Amazon advances with Autorip – who can compete?
Useful article about Amazon’s new Autorip feature, which makes CDs and vinyl you buy (including things you’ve bought in the past) automatically available to stream via their website and download as...
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