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Music biz: piracy our "climate change," governments must act!
The global music industry trade group IFPI has released its Digital Music Report 2010, a 30-page document that makes a single argument: copyright infringement is a form of “climate change” for creative industries, and “we look to governments for action.” According to this view of the world, the music business has now tried its hand at being “innovative” and “customer focused.” It disaggregated albums, it allowed music to go up on everything from Amazon to iTunes to Spotify to Last.fm. It sued users, it launched education campaigns. Nothing worked.
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Continue reading »Coming soon: Freetard, The Movie
Music biz rise and fall hits the, um, small screen You’ve read all about music labels screwing the pooch. Now see the motion picture!…
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