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. Revenues went into
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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, they got involved.
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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 through the hassle
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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 other illegal file-sharing
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[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 other illegal file-sharing
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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 property owned by
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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. More music news?
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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 the line who
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Need someone to flirt with you? Try this AI voice actor. Sliding over to music news for February 19, 2022… RIP Dallas Good of The Sadies. He’d been recently diagnosed with a “coronary
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One week until Christmas. Feeling it yet? Maybe some music news for December 18, 2020, will help. Imagine a Spotify subscription for 34 cents per month. That’s what it costs in India. Tim
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A little social engineering can go a long way. From The Hollywood Reporter: “A 27-year-old Austin, Texas, man allegedly stole and leaked more than 50 gigabytes of music, some of it unreleased, by
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