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The newspaper industry is the wrong one to crash this early

March 28, 2009

There are two major old media industries that are slowly and inextricably headed toward either radical change or demise. The first – the newspaper industry – is the one that seems to destined to be the poster child of old media heading into that long good-bye first, but I think far more deserving of [...]

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Well Colour Me Unimpressed - Pandora Gets Another Stay

September 28, 2008

Before anyone starts jumping down my throat about how great Pandora is, how bad the RIAA is or how this is all about restoring our rights as consumers let me say this….

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From the Pipeline - 9.20.08

September 20, 2008

There are times when I really miss the bitchmemes from weekends pasts. Nothing like a really good bitchfest to keep the weekend going but instead we just sort of coast from the Friday to Monday without a single thing to raise our blood pressure.

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Piracy Isn’t The Problem

August 19, 2008

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I have read no less than three different posts today about music, Pandora, the RIAA and piracy. Well it’s actually only two real posts since Chris Pirillo’s offering was no more than a cut and paste of his conversation on FriendFeed. Along with his non-post post there was Cyndy Aleo-Carreira who looks to [...]

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Encourage Piracy By Making Legal Music Too Hard to Listen To & Killing The Providers

August 16, 2008

Before Pandora became a geotarded service it was one of my most favourites services that I had running more often that winAMP. Along with Last.fm the Pandora service was one of the best ways to find out about new music and musicians. While Last.fm is still available via their web site and is now [...]

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Talk about a stretch of the imagination

May 8, 2008

We all know how the movie industry and the music industry love nothing better than to make people who for whatever reason pirate music and movies out to be the worst thing since Atilla the Hun. Sure there might be a small section who do pirate digital goods for immense profit but the reality [...]

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Are web backup sites legally protected?

April 23, 2008

For those of you not following this it started when EMI sued MP3Tunes.com for the contents of the online storage that the site offered it users to store their MP3 music files. Well according to a post on TechWag MP3Tunes.com has prevailed in the case which means that some 300 TB of files, users [...]

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Software Review: BitTorrent Clients - A Primer

December 31, 2007

For those of you who haven’t heard of the BitTorrent protocol, I’ll take you through a brief introduction. BitTorrent and P2P networks in general spend a lot of time in the news, being demonized, usually, by both the media and venerable organizations such as the RIAA and MPAA. It is claimed, generally, that the [...]

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Is 2008 to be RIAA’s death knell?

December 29, 2007

I realize lots of folks have been predicting the imminent demise of the RIAA and the music industry since the inception of Napster and yet both are still here and still treating legitimate customers as criminals - or at least as potential criminals. Sure individuals have tried to fight the RIAA’s questionable lawsuits and [...]

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Bill’s iTunes Review: By popular Demand!

November 16, 2007

I said I would do it, and I’m a man of my word. I’ve downloaded, installed, used and abused iTunes from Apple. I trashed this app pretty hard last week, but in retrospect, I may have been a bit hard on it. The last time I used it was about version 4 or so, [...]

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