05 October 2007 ~ Comments

The Increasing Irrelevance of the RIAA

The RIAA’s lobbying and lawsuits all tell the same story: the industry fears its inevitable irrelevance.
In the early days, the recording industry played a functional role in the album-making process: they facilitated the recordings, and they paid for the production and distribution of said albums. Bob Dylan may have had the talent, but when push [...]

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02 October 2007 ~ Comments

Musical "Shareware"

Radiohead announced earlier this week that they would be selling their new album on October 10 for whatever price their listeners would like to pay. The mainstream media covered this so extensively that excessive traffic caused the band’s web site to crash.
But the idea isn’t so new. In fact, it’s nearly eight years old, and [...]

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