You’ve no doubt seen the absurd campaigns by groups like the RIAA and the MPAA. The recurring claim is downloading = theft. There is an obvious difference between making a copy of something and stealing it, The handy infographic below should help you to understand that difference. What the copyright police do not tell you…
If You Pay to Download Something, You Don’t Actually Own It
You’ve no doubt seen the absurd campaigns by groups like the RIAA and the MPAA. The recurring claim is downloading = theft. There is an obvious difference between making a copy of something and stealing it, The handy infographic below should help you to understand that difference. What the copyright police do not tell you…
Do You Want Your Paper Bag Digital (and DRM free)?
Paper Bag Records home of, among many others, the Woodhands, Laura Barrett, the Acorn, You Say Party, We Say Die, Slim Twig, and Tokyo Police Club is launching it’s own, DRM Free, digital music store on June 17. From Exclaim: “Paper Bag plans for the new shop and its 320k/DRM-free files to complement and enhance…
Pay to Play? You can’t steal what doesn’t exist.
Discussion has headup up recently on the topic of copyright/copyleft and downloading. John Paolozzi at Radio 3 and I were talking about this on the Radio 3 blog in the wake of yet another collapsed copyright bill. A bill, I should add, that failed because it was only a business document that took neither artists…
Traditional Record Industry: Collapse Continues
Via Radio 3 and worth reposting in it’s entirity: Is it me, or is this October 2007 going to go down as the month the record industry as we know it collapsed? Major international acts are say “no thanks” to record labels, including Paul McCartney, Madonna, and Radiohead – and Oasis and Jamiroquai are rumoured…