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 news for June
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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 MPAA. As Torrent
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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 is the CEO
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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 other countries follow
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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. Lamb of God
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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 legally-downloaded artist on
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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 of arrangement with
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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 accident. It looks
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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 to promote their
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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 of World Records.
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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 of doing wondrous
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