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Believe it or not, music piracy is still a big, big problem

March 12, 2023March 10, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Music, Piracy, Stream Ripping, Streaming Fraud, Torrents

I can’t figure out why people go through the trouble of stealing music. You have free access to 100 million

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Ongoing History Daily: Modern music piracy

February 14, 2023February 14, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments Music, Piracy, Pirates, Stream Ripping

Back it the day, music piracy meant sneaking a cassette into your pocket and walking out of the record store.

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Random music news for Saturday, February 27, 2021

February 27, 2021February 27, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alice Cooper, Brian May, Detroit, J-Pop, Japanese Pop, Lady Gaga, Live Nation, Stream Ripping

Can’t stand the cold? It could be genetic. Now some music news for February 27, 2021. Live Nation is optimistic

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Random music news for Tuesday, November 24, 2020

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments AC/DC, Amazon, Apple, Australia, Guitars, Liam Gallagher, Live Music, Lobo, Melanie, R Kelly, Radio, Stream Ripping

The chorus of this song was stuck in my head for five days. It’s now been replaced by this. Think

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Random music news for Monday, June 24, 2019

June 24, 2019June 23, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Alexa, Brian May, Dave Grohl, Elliott Roberts, Metallica, Rolling Stones, Stream Ripping

Off to Winnipeg tonight to prepare for a TEDx presentation I have to give on Wednesday. Maybe I’ll see you

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Random music news for Saturday, June 8, 2019

June 8, 2019June 7, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Brian Wilson, Cardi B, CFL, Kanye, Stream Ripping, Trump

It’s Kanye’s 41st birthday. What sorts of OTT things are going to happen in conjunction with that? For now, though,

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Music Industry 

Music piracy: Amazingly, it’s not only still a problem but on the rise.

June 4, 2019June 4, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Piracy, Stream Ripping

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

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Random music news for Tuesday, June 4, 2019

June 4, 2019June 3, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments #MeToo, Airpods, CargoJet, Cell Phones, Drake, FM Chips, Music Blogs, Russell Simmons, Stream Ripping, Tom Petty

This is what thinking looks like. Cool! Grow more neurons by reading through music news for Tuesday, June 4, 2019.

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Random music news for Wednesday, May 29, 2019

May 29, 2019May 28, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bagpipes, iPhone, Podcasting, Raptors, Scalpers, Smartphones, Stream Ripping, Walk Off The Earth

My spring speaking tour resumes tonight with a gig in Buffalo. If you want to see if I’ll be in

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Random music news for Friday, April 19, 2019

April 19, 2019April 18, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments BandCamp, Bob Dylan, BTS, Fleetwood Mac, Gongs, KLF, Lindsey Buckingham, Live Nation, Mueller, Saturday Night Live, Stream Ripping

It was on this day in 1987 that a short-form animated feature called The Simpsons first appeared as an interstitial

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Random music news for Friday, January 25, 2019

January 25, 2019January 25, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments AI, Broken Social Scene, Concert Tickets, Deezer, Donald Trump, Fyre Festival, Jean-Michel Jarre, Mini-Golf, Music Town, Skrillex, Stream Ripping

We were almost mistakenly vaporized on this day in 1995. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed. Ponder that as you go through

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