Piracy Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Ongoing 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

Need someone to flirt with you? Try this AI voice actor. Sliding over to music news for February 19, 2022…

One week until Christmas. Feeling it yet? Maybe some music news for December 18, 2020, will help. Imagine a Spotify

A little social engineering can go a long way. From The Hollywood Reporter: “A 27-year-old Austin, Texas, man allegedly stole

The US Government is putting together another Notorious Markets report, which names companies, websites, apps, and nations that it believes

It looked for a while that streaming was on its way to obliterating the desire to pirate music. Why would

June already. It would be nice if spring finally arrived in some parts of Canada. On to music news for

It’s never been easier or cheaper to get legal access to almost kind of media you want. Yet people continue

It’s a chilling sort of email. Someone from somewhere insists that you’ve violated copyright in some way (music, movies, other

One day, we’ll turn on the news and not hear anything about Donald Trump. One day… Meanwhile, here’s music news

[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca – AC] Back in the old days of overpriced CDs and peer-to-peer file-sharing,

The Goldilocks of Canadian Production Companies – Mark Bishop in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 037 November 25, 2021
Our latest guest on The Backstage Project podcast comes to us from the world of Canadian television. TBP was thrilled to have a chance to visit and catch up with marblemedia’s Mark Bishop. Mark is an accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder and trusted media industry advocate. In 2001 Mark and Co-Founder Matt Hornburg founded marblemedia, one of […]
Andrew Dick
Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
Andrew Dick
Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver