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  • WWE finally has a YouTube account (and with full episodes)

    WWE finally has a YouTube account (and with full episodes)

    Posted on June 8, 2010 | No Comments
    I must be seeing things... is that an official WWE YouTube page, and one that already has last night's episode of Monday Night Raw online? This is so unlike WWE, embracing technology. They must have hired someone new in recent weeks, someone who told them that, you know, the Internet isn't merely for “geeks” anymore.

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  • Henry Morgan wants the word ‘pirate’ back

    Henry Morgan wants the word ‘pirate’ back

    Posted on March 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Hollywood (the movie studios, the record labels, etc.) sure does have a knack for causing its own problems. You'll recall that it's en vogue to call copyright infringers "pirates," which is an insult to legitimate pirates like William Kidd and Henry Morgan. Just because you can fire up uTorrent doesn't mean you can take on a Spanish Armada. But, whatever, it's simply easier for Hollywood and its acolytes to call you kids "pirates" than it is to have an adult discussion about the subject.

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  • The rise and fall of iTunes LP (cue dramatic music)

    The rise and fall of iTunes LP (cue dramatic music)

    Posted on March 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Exciting news about Apple's iTunes LP: apparently it's a bit of a bust! The fine folks at GigaOM had the foresight to talk to people in the music industry to ask them, six months on, how's iTunes LP doing? Not so great, is the answer. What went wrong?

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  • Universal chooses Aspiro Music for streaming cooperation

    Universal chooses Aspiro Music for streaming cooperation

    Posted on February 11, 2010 | No Comments
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  • You can’t buy Japanese music on iTunes you say?

    You can’t buy Japanese music on iTunes you say?

    Posted on February 2, 2010 | No Comments
    For anyone who listens to Keith Urban’s advice and actually buys music, you might have already noticed that most Japanese artists aren’t on iTunes. The reasons why are boring and complicated, but just know that our friends at J-List have a work around for anyone who really really wants every anime soundtrack ever. Essentially, Japanese music [...]

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  • IFPI claims that music piracy is right up there with climate change. At least they’re not being melodramatic about it.

    IFPI claims that music piracy is right up there with climate change. At least they’re not being melodramatic about it.

    Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
    The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is sorta like a worldwide RIAA, representing record labels, artists, and musicians to make sure their agenda is always out there. That, of course, makes it pure evil. It just published its Digital Music Report 2010, which tries to detail the situation vis-à-vis digital music, piracy, and so on. The big, scary headline: music piracy is right up there with climate change as an issue of monumental, worldwide importance. Sure, OK.

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  • Alice in Chains launches its new album, yes, via an iPhone App

    Alice in Chains launches its new album, yes, via an iPhone App

    Posted on October 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Last week, Volkswagen “launched” the new 2010 GTI via an iPhone App. This week, famous rock band Alice in Chains launches its new album via an iPhone App. It comes out tomorrow, and includes the album itself, along with photos, news, videos, etc. Think of it as a bonus DVD, back in the early days of when the record labels were trying to figure out how to get people to buy CDs.

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  • It’s brother versus brother in the UK re: that proposed anti-file sharing law

    It’s brother versus brother in the UK re: that proposed anti-file sharing law

    Posted on September 14, 2009 | No Comments
    It's time for story Eight Million and Six-teen about how the record labels and the musicians they ostensibly represent no longer get on with each other. This time, we have a bit of a row developing over in the UK, where that proposed knock-people-off-the-Internet-for-file-sharing law is currently stirring division amongst the ranks. One on side, of course, you have the record labels who, in the year 2009, are still afraid of piracy destroying the music business (please note: that's destroying the music business that made record label execs fat and happy; music hasn't gone away, it's merely changed, and change is death to the record label middle men), and on the other, the musicians who recognize that, you know, maybe suing the pants off your customers isn't the best thing to do.

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  • Maybe I’m the only one who doesn’t ‘get’ iTunes LP

    Maybe I’m the only one who doesn’t ‘get’ iTunes LP

    Posted on September 13, 2009 | No Comments
    This is probably a question that the record labels should be asking, but I'll ask it here anyway: how do you guys listen to music in 2009? On your iPhone (or whatever portable device, it doesn't matter for the purposes of this here post)? On your computer while you surf your favorite Web sites? At the gym? Now, how many of you will sit in front of your computer, and devote 100 percent of your attention to the iTunes visualizer? Not too many of you, I'd venture to guess.

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  • Apple announced many things today. Here’s what you missed (if that’s even possible).

    Apple announced many things today. Here’s what you missed (if that’s even possible).

    Posted on September 9, 2009 | No Comments
    A small, California-based company by the name of Apple had an event today where it unveiled many new things. In case you were AFE (away from Earth) for the past few hours, here's what you missed.

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  • Updated Digital Britain report recommends, yes, to kick pirates off the Internet

    Updated Digital Britain report recommends, yes, to kick pirates off the Internet

    Posted on August 25, 2009 | No Comments
    Potentially bad news for you UK readers. An amendment to the big Digital Britain report would kick off “hardcore copyright pirates” from the Internet. The amendment would require ISPs to tell repeat offenders to knock it off, or else. The cost for doing this—it's not exactly inexpensive to keep track of copyright infringement, mail out letters, etc.—will be burdened by both the ISPs and rights holders.

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  • Let’s say: The music industry gets its way and throws everyone in jail. Then what?

    Let’s say: The music industry gets its way and throws everyone in jail. Then what?

    Posted on August 17, 2009 | No Comments
    And now, the 900th note on Internet piracy written in the past week. It would appear that the UK is inching closer to a law that would require ISPs to disconnect people who download music, movies, etc. illegally. The proposal, currently making its way through the back rooms of the British Government, could well be placed before the Parliament during its next session.

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  • Tenenbaum ordered to pay $675,000 to record labels

    Tenenbaum ordered to pay $675,000 to record labels

    Posted on August 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Another day, another RIAA trial victory. Joel Tenenbaum was ordered to cough up $675,000 to the record labels. It works out to $22,500 per song he downloaded off Kazaa years ago.

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  • Pandora teams up with record labels: Wants regular radio to pay music fees too

    Pandora teams up with record labels: Wants regular radio to pay music fees too

    Posted on July 14, 2009 | No Comments
    The enemy of my enemy, right? Pandora, the Internet darling that lets users stream music for a newly nominal fee, has teamed up with record labels to get Congress to pass a law that would require regular radio stations pay the same music rights fee as that it has to pay. The labels want regular radio to pay up to help offset the losses connected with the industry's transition from a pre-Internet music business to a decidedly post-Internet music business. (Maybe stop employing untold numbers of lawyers to go after mothers, hmm?)

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