If you've paid half-attention to the news cycle as regards illegal file sharing over the last 12 months, then you've already gleaned the gist of
"Ripped To Shreds," where writer Adrienne Day interviews the founder of former BitTorrent hub OiNK, nameless members (and ex-members) of "ripping crews," small label owners, and journalists to outline the rise in online leak culture for a print readership that will presumably still be mildly shocked by the fact that "many of the saboteurs come from within the industry itself," that record labels and journalists and bands and friends of bands and nameless studio hands are all complicit, to one degree of malice or another, in putting records online for anyone to steal before they've been officially released. But here's a thumbnail.
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This New York Times story on the upcoming Video Music Awards (you may have heard us mention them once or twice) is mostly a rehash of everyone's talking points from the last few months now (MTV's slipping position as youth arbiter in the face of the big bad Internet, the fucked-up way they're scheduling and presenting the show to compensate for its actually-kinda-shocking 28% ratings slump last year), but it is nice as a one-stop location that covers the entirety of MTV's "we're still down!" flailing in the face of MySpace, et al. [