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So I came across this article a short time ago, and found it to be evidence of something I've felt to be true for some time now: that only the labels and the "big business" model of distributing music lose when music is free. Times Online, the online arm of The Times of London, has […]

Go. Read. Be Afraid: The Media Equation — Big Music vs. Fans and Artists — NYTimes.com

Fake Steve on the NBC-Zune Deal: "It's the first time I've seen rats swimming toward a sinking ship." (Via ★ Daring Fireball by way of Fake Steve Jobs.)

John Gruber, one of my favorite writers, opines this in reference to this article by Saul Hansell, in a report for the NYT Bits Blog on current negotiations between Apple and the major music labels: So let’s get this straight. The music labels think we should pay more for a song downloaded from a server […]

Seems that Warner didn't do too well money-wise this fiscal year. According to an article at Mashable!, it seems they did $5 million in profit out of $869 million in revenue. Seems they're finally feeling the pinch from going to war against their consumers. As quoted in the article: The RIAA and the lesser known […]

Universities to Enforce Copyright Protection or Else: The US House of Representatives has gone a step further in helping the helpless RIAA and MPAA in defending themselves from the monstrous and looming threat of college students with P2P clients. For a while there, I was worried that mom and pop entertainment companies would no longer […]

I'm not gonna claim that last.fm is the end-all be-all of song playcounts, but it's one of the biggest sites like it out there, so this is pretty accurate I'd say. Spot the difference: What a week. From the moment Radiohead announced their plans for latest release ‘In Rainbows’ we’ve been itching to see how you, […]

Seriously, rigid song structures in pop, as demonstrated by Linkin Park: Linkin Park’s singles often inspire the question “haven’t they already written this song?” An mp3 that does the rounds from time to time mixes Numb (on the left) and Pushing Me Away (on the right) to illustrate this with almost comical effect: All Linkin […]

I don't know if it will ever go away completely, but this article is a step in the right direction. [Edit] Seems the link is now dead, and to see the article you have to search the archives & register. Sorry!

Lovely weather today. But more importantly, I've been using this kick ass website lately called la la. It's a CD trading website. So you list all the CDs you have, tick off the ones you'd like to keep forever, and then go list all the CDs you want. Other people do the same, and the […]