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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. And so very important in peoples lives. But consumers need to regain trust before pushing hard earned money towards artists (towards because it seldom gets very far). Artist, ffs, fight back instead of whining.
Read the TechCrunch post below
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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 ago, but believe me, a lot has changed in that time.”
So hey, instead of making our very own, we are presenting a pretty good one. Even though there are plenty of savvy web 2.0 sites left out. We’ll feature some of these in the, not so far away, future.
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The RIAA has quickly become one of the most disliked organizations in the world. And now, they’ll be liked even less.
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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.
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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!?)
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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 - but they moderate material, and they even throw out crap samples. Props for that.
Currently they are on the lookout for producers, that would be interested in trying out a new way of approaching music business models. We’d like to help this site grow and sustain quality, so we are passing this on to everyone reading here.
If interested in joining the small dedicated team, you can read their call for audio producers.
Anyway, we will keep pounding on their archive.
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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 give them your email, and they’ll send a real disc your way! Now that is service.
Instead of marketing teasers as free, 360 label deals, merch expansion (Fiddydiddy sweat anyone?) and crapping fans in the face, after they piss themselves (yes, fans aren’t that smart right now) - let’s all hope this merry holiday season brings us a world where talented musicians can find a way to make a living of music, without selling their souls to Starbucks or Walmart. Where a really good artist doesn’t need to promote some hideous clothing line or clean toilets while flipping burgers at McDonald’s.
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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 to confirm this, TechCrunch should be a believable source.
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Some people have picked up on the quality material LostAudio finds round and about, and used it.
The output above is from a nice feature, that ccMixter has: publicize. So, in the event, that you have made a track from something you’ve found here … go upload it there, and attribute your ass off. It’ll pop up right here!
We’ll be making use of this, a lot more in the future, so watch out.
The only problem with this, is the one level of attribution. We’ll still be making posts to clear this up, so until some fancy pancy flash wizard at Creative Commons figures that out, you’ll you can only track deeper attribution levels here, on a post by post basis.
