Random music news for Thursday, June 14, 2018
Donald Trump’s friends are Russia, China, and North Korea. His enemies are Canada, France, Germany, and Japan. What’s wrong with this picture? Think about that as we review the music
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Weird ISP Piracy Case Gets Support from RIAA, MPAA
A federal court in Virginia ruled that an ISP could be held liable for one of its users sharing pirated content, a decision now being supported by the RIAA and
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Muzit: An Alternative Approach to Piracy
Muzit’s policy on people who download music without paying for it is kind of counter-intuitive: If you can’t beat it or stop it, turn it into an opportunity. Tommy Funderburk
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Random Music News for Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Off to Winnipeg for Christmas. It’ll be very white. And now, the music news. Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst has been banned from Ukraine for the next five years. Why can’t
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Damn you, polar vortex! Bono has some good things to say about streaming. You know how some say Thom Yorke made $20 million on his BitTorrent album? Well, probably not.
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Thom Yorke Made $20 Million from His BitTorrent Experiment. Wait–That Can’t Be Right… [UPDATE: Yeah, I Thought So]
You may have heard about Thom Yorke released his second solo album, Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, on BitTorrent, asking for $6 USD. It was a massive success, making him the most
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Thom Yorke Releases a New Song: “You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Angry”
When I was at the M for Montreal festival back in November, a highly placed source from the Bandcamp, er, camp hinted that there would soon be news of some kind
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Shop, consumers, shop! (And for American readers confused as to why we Canadians seems to devote a shopping day to pugilism, go here.) Bryan Ferry’s son was injured in a car
Read MoreSuddenly, A New Thom Yorke Album [UPDATE: Guess What Happened to It?]
Remember that cryptic post by Thom Yorke earlier in the week? Turns out it was a foreshadow of something to come. BitTorrent did good with this one. As they continue
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I’m almost ready to declare the new puppy house trained. Yay! Name the only band to ever perform a concert on all seven continents. It’s in the new Guinness Book
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Aussie Band 3D Printed Their New Video–And You Can,Too!
I think 3D printing is super-cool, although I’m beginning to see parallels with the introduction of the fax machine back in the 80s. At first, they were high-tech marvels capable
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