Random music news for Wednesday, September 10, 2025
How long is the average attention span? Eight seconds–and dropping. Maybe it has something to do with motivation. If you can’t be bothered to click that link, try to at
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Random music news for Friday, March 7, 2025
Collectors are gonna collect. See? Here’s what I’ve collected for music news for March 7, 2025. More music news? Go here. BONUS: An American prisoner execution by firing squad? Yes.
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This looks like an important docuseries: How Music Got Free. Check out the trailer.
If you’re a young’un, you may have never purchased any music. Never. It’s all been streams or online videos. But it wasn’t all that long ago that everyone had to
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I thought that streaming was supposed to stop young people from pirating music. Uh-oh
Twenty-five years ago when Napster and its sort began allowing us to share music online, we did it because: Illegal file-sharing wipe out huge swaths of the recorded music industry.
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Ongoing History Daily: The Arctic Monkeys buck the system
The Arctic Monkeys came together in England in 2002, just as the internet and file-sharing were starting to decimate the old-school record industry. Rather than fight piracy of their music,
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Believe it or not, music piracy is still a big, big problem
I can’t figure out why people go through the trouble of stealing music. You have free access to 100 million songs through Spotify’s free tier. You still want to go
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: Modern music piracy
Back it the day, music piracy meant sneaking a cassette into your pocket and walking out of the record store. In the digital album, it was Napster and all the
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Why are Canadians such big music and TV pirates?
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] I’ll admit it: If you go through the files on my computer, you’ll find songs that I downloaded from Napster and
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The government of Belarus makes music piracy legal. Sort of.
Belarus, the Russia-adjacent country run by Putin’s buddy Alexander Lukashenko, has made it legal to steal music. Actually, the new law also applies to movies, software, TV, and other intellectual
Read MoreRandom music news for Thursday, November 3, 2022
Anyone else find it disturbing that scientists can’t figure out how AI works? What could possibly go wrong? Ponder that as you scroll through music news for November 3, 2022.
Read MoreOngoing History Daily: The state of music piracy in 1897
Music piracy still exists, but it isn’t the problem that it used to be. But let me quote this: ‘Canadian pirates’ is what the music dealers call publishing houses across
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