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The Music Business: It Seems Like Everyone Is Kinda Tired
Wed Sep 10 2008 by Maura
Yesterday’s announcement of new iPods and a new version of iTunes revealed one biggish innovation on Apple’s part: Genius, which is Apple’s attempt at integrating last.fm/Pandora-like “recommendation” functionality into the music player. So far, it seems a bit imperfect to me: It’s claiming that I’m “missing” songs that are next in line on my playlist; and its recommendations get a bit more dicey the further your listening habits stray from iTunes’ best-sellers list. Kevin Maney at Portfolio wonders if the meh-ness of the products Apple unveiled yesterday is a sign that Apple has hit the wall, innovation-wise, in music, but Marc Cohen at Ad-Supported Music Central takes his argument one further, saying that the whole industry is in the doldrums, at least on the business side.
Village People Hoping That Web Sheriff Can Stop The Music (From Being Traded On The Pirate Bay)
Fri Feb 15 2008 by Maura
The Village People are the latest artists to team up with the Web Sheriff, the exceedingly polite antipiracy company that roams the plains of the Internet, looking for people who are violating copyrights. And it’s not for reasons related to sheriff-themed costumes! Instead, the suited-up disco group is planning on joining Prince’s lawsuit against the overly self-impressed Swedish BitTerrorist haven The Pirate Bay. More »
Pirate Bay Captain Speaks, BitTerrorists Swab YouTube’s Deck In His Honor
Tue Feb 12 2008 by Maura
Channel-I-just-realized-I-have Russia Today spoke with Pirate Bay head Gottfried Svartholm Warg for a TV package on the site, which is currently facing legal action in its home country of Sweden. Warg’s interview was distilled down to the the now-standard answer that anyone charged with facilitating copyright infringement via hosting BitTorrent servers gives, which is that they’ve actually done no wrong because they’re merely pointing users to files that other people have uploaded. They’re really just like Google! Especially with the whole part about “monetizing searches,” according to the report.
Swedish Prosecutor Fires A Shot At The Pirate Bay, Head Pirates Take To Their Blog To LOL
Thu Jan 31 2008 by Maura
A Swedish prosecutor filed charges against Hans Fredrik Neij, Per Svartholm Warg, Peter Kolmisoppi, and Carl Lundstroem, the four men behind the BitTerrorist haven The Pirate Bay, today. Prosecutor Haakan Roswall has claimed that The Pirate Bay “promotes other people’s infringements of copyright laws” and makes money off of that promotion from its banner ads, and he’s dinged the site for distributing 20 music files–including songs by The Cardigans and The Beatles–as well as nine movies and four video games.
Mon Jan 21 2008 by Maura
LOL OMG @ script kiddies taking down the RIAA’s site over the weekend and installing links to the Pirate Bay and error messages that read “FTW”! More »
The Pirate Bay To Have Some Criminal Charges Shot Its Way Soon
Fri Jan 11 2008 by Maura
Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that the operators of BitTerrorist haven The Pirate Bay will likely have “conspiracy to breach copyright” charges slapped on them by prosecutors in the site’s home country of Sweden. This is despite copyright laws that are generally more lax than the ones in effect in the rest of the world, the fact that the country has a somewhat robust political party whose platform is pro-piracy, and the generally positive view of the site by Swedish residents, who, according to the WSJ, view the site’s founders as “plucky upstarts who dared to take on Hollywood.”
Are Those Leaked Albums You Downloaded Really By Who They Claim To Be By?
Mon Jan 7 2008 by Maura
Surely anyone reading this who downloads music has fallen prey to a fake leak now and again, since it’s not possible to inspect bum albums before you buy them the way one can with those high-end designer purses that mysteriously “fell off the back of a truck” before being sold on your less savory street corners. And oftentimes, those fakes are pretty easy to spot–take, for example, all the aspiring Vitamin Water moguls who labeled their freestyles with 50 Cent’s name. But if a group of pranksters calling themselves the Overdub Tampering Committee are serious about their claims, it may turn out that even the most diehard fans have been duped into downloading phony copies of leaks now and again:
Wed Dec 26 2007 by Maura
Well, I guess we know where the Pirate Bay is going to go once it gets kicked out of Sweden: “The Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda has won the right to waive U.S. copyrights in films, television and music under an unusual ruling by the World Trade Organization. More »
Wed Dec 26 2007 by Maura
Well, I guess we know where the Pirate Bay is going to go once it gets kicked out of Sweden: “The Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda has won the right to waive U.S. copyrights in films, television and music under an unusual ruling by the World Trade Organization. More »
