Tag: Spotify
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going dark…
Inevitable, and given the silly responses to open P2P and bittorrent, the way it’s going…and very hard if not possible to police, and yes supports all kinds of groups including the ones you’d rather not play with (military and child pr0n, hmm) but still…publicly offline is the new online! See you there? I wonder if…
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Google’s ‘blogocide’ deletes music blogs
(created with FAT’s great Google Tag script – love the ZEVS style one too) Apparently Google has deleted entirely several music blogs entirely for infringement of copyright – even the ones that posted tracks with permission from the record label, artists or management. I commented on this Guardian article, thought it bore repeating (and extending)…
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“analogue business model in a digital era”
I love this quote from Ed O’Brien from Radiohead, about to speak at MIDEM about Filesharing: “I have a problem when people in the industry say ‘it’s killing the industry, it’s the thing that’s ripping us apart’. I don’t actually believe it is … (Pirates) might not buy an album, but they’re spending their money…
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Rage Against the Machine makes Xmas #1
Thank you everyone! We made history – largest digital first week ever and first and first digital-only Xmas #1! As well as over £60k + the song profits for Shelter and other charities. And to Simon ‘Irritable’ Cowell Syndrome, FUCK YOU I WON’T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME! ;-D And who says Killing in the…
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Spotify DJ
Unusually for a new(ish) shiny Web 2.0 music application, Spotify is only currently freely available in the UK – but you can get it outside of the UK with an invite (more in a sec)…but it’s basically a legal iTunes-type application you can listen to music for free (with ads)…and it has millions of tracks.…