Archive for 'Site Rants'
Music has-beens line up to sue The Pirate Bay: Easy money
Posted on 21. Feb, 2008 by Lost.
Justice or money grab? Bands are lining up to sue The Pirate Bay now that the Swedish government has indicted the site’s owners, but their plans could backfire as the promises of sunken treasure give way to reality. In Denmark a large ISP has been forced to block access to TPB (proxy ahead). Meaningless. But [...]
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Online Music Cartel – why do artists still accept dinosaurs dated defense
Posted on 13. Feb, 2008 by Lost.
“Let’s say Ford and GM decide to get together to sell cars. We would blink a couple of times and then we’d say, ‘Hey, that’s a cartel. You can go to jail for that.’” –Bob Lande, professor, University of Baltimore Law School Three minute formats, and fixed pricing on Cd’s does raise some questions (like [...]
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Hatred and Funky Remixes
Posted on 31. Jan, 2008 by Lost.
If you don’t enjoy our packages – and think the teasers are missing vocals – why not pop by a Creative Commons reference site. You’ll find loads of legal and nice music for your listening pleasure… That was the CC excuse for posting this … what is indeed more interesting is a recent blog entry [...]
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Qtrax update – still pissing people off
Posted on 29. Jan, 2008 by Lost.
Okay. They blew the launch. They’ve even misrepresented the big labels… But it’s fixable. What is really annoying, is that the idiots haven’t come out from hiding… at the very least updated their website. Transparency is needed. Tell the story. But hiding is becoming somewhat trendy when making mistakes… At least they have some 30 [...]
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Qtrax launching in 5,4,3,2 … wait … let’s not launch.
Posted on 28. Jan, 2008 by Lost.
A digg post states: “Qtrax is NOT just another P2P network, it provides a complete system for finding and downloading music. The player provides access a web site filled with artist content, including Videos, Ringtones, Lyrics, Album Art, up to the minute artist news! Try finding THAT on any other P2P network. Even better – [...]
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Global Digital Music Sales Up 40 Percent…
Posted on 25. Jan, 2008 by Lost.
But Overall Sales Down 10 Percent… The sale of digital music globally hit $2.9 billion in 2007, up 40 percent from 2006. But, as we’ve seen in the U.S. alone, that was not enough to offset the 10 percent decline in overall music sales to 17.6 billion… Music is still one of the biggest things. [...]
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Download and Listen to Free Music on the Web
Posted on 25. Jan, 2008 by Lost.
From the post: “In the past year the number of web sites linking to free downloads and streaming music has exploded, meaning there are more ways than ever to get your music fix. Today I’ll highlight the best web sites -and best search kung-fu-for finding free music online. We covered this territory over two years [...]
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The RIAA speaks — and it gets worse
Posted on 25. Jan, 2008 by Lost.
The RIAA has quickly become one of the most disliked organizations in the world. And now, they’ll be liked even less.read more | digg story
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Why the MPAA and RIAA can’t stand college students
Posted on 25. Jan, 2008 by Lost.
So why does the RIAA and MPAA focus so much of their time on college students? Sadly, it’s just another example of these organizations trying to vilify the easy target when the real violators roam free. read more | digg story
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Creative Commons gets Danish Trial
Posted on 25. Jan, 2008 by Lost.
Creative Commons get semi-officially accepted by Danish Admin of Music Copyrights: KODA. A one year trail with only attribution-noncommercial ahead. One small step for mashers (one last step for dinosaurs!?)read more | digg story
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Join a moderated web 2.0 music site
Posted on 26. Dec, 2007 by Lost.
Community content driven sites are having very good days indeed. The LostAudio initiative however, sees some problems with this in regard to music; in particular sample pools and so on. There is a need for quality (both formats and actual content). That is why we feature iBeat.org here. It is big, and getting bigger – [...]
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Pax Cecilia – Up one on the free music movement
Posted on 20. Dec, 2007 by Lost.
It’s a shame that only the big guns get publicity. Take the hype about Radioheads latest release; only the shitty format was free, and more along that road: extras on the ‘real’ deal disc. Pax Cecilia made a more noteworthy contribution to the ‘free music’-movement back in April when they released their new album. Just [...]
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GOOD? Imeem sign with all the majors
Posted on 10. Dec, 2007 by Lost.
The Social Music Site Imeem is the first of its kind to have signed a deal with all the four majors. Taking ad-supported music to another level (up/down, good/bad?). We’ll be watching how this progresses, and listening to over five million songs. Almost as much as iTunes. Although we couldn’t find anything on their website [...]