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YouTube - Grace Jones - Corporate Cannibal
The Pinocchio Theory » Blog Archive » Grace Jones, Corporate Cannibal
“Corporate Cannibal”, the new Grace Jones video (directed by Nick Hooker) is utterly astonishing. Jones is 60 years old (!); and this is the first new work she has released in close to twenty years. But (it) is anything but safe and nostalgic.
EU strikes the wrong note on copyright
"The Commission has shifted that balance even further away from consumers. Any extra money for Cliff Richard and his cronies comes straight out of their pockets. Once again the music industry seems to be succeeding in making consumers pay for something"
DIY schemes for super-fast net
"Fibre initiatives such as that being offered in Bournemouth and Dundee by fibre-through-the-sewers firm H2O is currently using the same technique of asking people to pre-register for the service in an effort to drum up interest."
Wired 13.01: The Shadow Internet
"Anathema is a topsite, one of 30 or so underground, highly secretive servers where nearly all of the unlicensed music, movies, and videogames. Outside of a pirate elite and the Feds who track them, few know that topsites exist. Even fewer can log in."
Piracy | Look for the silver lining
"Most of the time, companies will decide to combat piracy by sending in the lawyers. And most of the time that is the right thing to do. But before they rush into action companies should check to see if there is a way to turn piracy to their advantage."
Record Labels Are Not Venture Capitalists by David Rose
"Some artists, like some startup companies, do need an investor and team of professionals to help them succeed. Hopefully as the music industry continues its ongoing transformation new and more equitable models for investing in artists will emerge"
KavaTunes
"KavaTunes creates interactive websites that look and work just like iTunes. Browse, search and play all your music. KavaTunes websites can stream your favorite playlists using your computer’s built-in web server. KavaTunes can also add artwork"
New iPhone music to users' ears
"Here are some of the more notable music apps available. All are free, unless otherwise noted: Pandora, Last.fm, Shazam, Midomi, AOL Radio, Moocow Music: Band, Intuna - GuitarToolKit, Tap Tap Revenge, Jamd
Home servers may render CD racks obsolete
"By contrast, a home server acts as a central storage hub for all the content in the home, and multiple devices can link to it in order to stream or otherwise access music, video or other content. A home server will even automatically backup"
Music Retailer Thrives Serving Captive Audience
"Pack Central, which runs a mail-order operation for about 50,000 prisoners. It stocks about 10,000 CDs and 5,000 cassette titles. Prisoners pay for product through money orders or checks drawn on a spendable trust account set up by their family members."
StumbleAudio (2,000,000+ music tracks to discover)
Pandora for indie non-commercial artists - Great Ideia. Jamendo should make something like this
Mark Mulligan - Sky's Music Subscription Announcement - First Take
"Sky can be counted on to market and cross-promote this thing until the cows come home. With that kind of promotion and (at risk of sounding like a stuck record) hardware integration, they might just open up a new audience to digital music."
Sky to Partner with Universal Music for Innovative New Digital Music Service
"Sky is to launch a new service enabling UK and Irish consumers to access music online (...) for a single monthly subscription, music fans can enjoy unlimited listening to a huge choice of songs as well as the opportunity to download tracks to own forever
Clouds and Pirates: Darknets Rising
"All that is needed to upload and share a file is a standard compression tool (stuffit, winzip) and Internet access. Once uploaded, the file is searchable from all over the Internet and can be shared with anyone. Or, you can simply make it available"
Fixing problem of file-sharing - The Irish Times - Fri, Jul 11, 2008
"music companies (...) would have to permit individual consumers to copy and distribute their artists' works: effectively making those the customers both the purchaser and the "reseller". That risks creating a monster: a legal file-sharing network"
Copyright extension is the enemy of innovation -Times Online
"The simple truth is that copyright extension benefits most those who already hold rights. It benefits incumbent holders of major back-catalogues, be they record companies, ageing rock stars or, increasingly, artists’ estates"
Overlooked Records 2008 | Pitchfork
"Our editorial brass put its collective head together and have compiled a list of 20 albums that we're still spinning, yet either were not selected as a Best New Music pick, or isn't something we felt our audience was already pretty widely loving"
Baixando Música da Internet
525 comentários é obra!!!: "É muito controverso se é ilegal ou não baixar música da Internet. A lei e licença de uso do fonograma (faixa de um CD) ou não é clara ou ninguém nunca explicou isso direito."
Apricado Music Downloads | Make Apricado Jam.
"Apricado: Artists, sell your songs online for and 80% cut of your royalties."
Apricado: Selling Your Music Has Never Been This Easy
"makes the music submission process ridiculous easy: After uploading a song, the site will automatically detect the artist name and generate a music store (...) Each song sold will be distributed without DRM, and the site will only take a 20% cut"
MediaZoo : Powered by GravityZoo
"MediaZoo represents a new generation of Cloud-based services powered by GravityZoo. It allows you to not only build your online music library but also join The Zoo, a project aiming to build the world's largest public library of shared, free music"
Bang! And the duds are gone | Media | The Guardian
"There are three big reasons why Leoni-Sceti's background appears relevant. First, EMI must get to know its consumers and understand them better. Second, it must work more closely with brands to develop new revenue streams for artists (...)"
Does the world need another indie band?
"As in every musical era, one style dominates the hearts and minds of our nation's youth; it dictates their fashion sense (...) These days, it's indie that's the cholesterol in the veins of popular culture and we need to start thinking about a crash diet"
Reforming a Mean World: Hero Reports
"Wright wants us to reverse our lens and look for people who are doing things that are socially constructive. She wants us to find evidence of the good conduct that surrounds us all the time and bring it to greater public attention"
VisuaMobile - Allradio
Rádio FM para o iPhone: Listen to your favorites radio when abroad. Imagine you travel to another country, with allradio you'll be able to listen to your local or national radios just like you were at home or in your car.
The concept album is back
"The evidence is incontrovertible — concept albums are back. “When I set out to make a concept album, I was worried it might get associated with those silly 1970s ones,” admits Brewis. “But there are no 10-minute organ solos — and definitely no
Brazil: Bloggers question the 13 new cyber-crimes
"It is a general consensus that the matter was not debated enough, and to help with it a blog carnival against censorship has been called for next Saturday, July 19. The original text of the proposal, available here, is being translated into English"
My Son, the Blogger - An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors
"Dr. Kim epitomizes the home-grown publishers whose wealth has been enabled by the Internet. Although few of the millions of blogs ever make their creators rich, the ones that do provide all the incentive necessary to fuel the medium."
Internet piracy | Thanks, me hearties
"for example. Hulu, a website operated by News Corporation that offers free, advertising-supported video-streaming, already uses file-sharing statistics to design its programming and to set advertising rates."
eMusic keeps its groove - Jul. 16, 2008
"You can already read quite a bit about the (...) cult band on its eMusic album pages. Now eMusic will add a wealth of content from the Web 2.0 universe: the band's Wikipedia entry, pictures from Flickr, and videos of Arcade Fire concerts from YouTube."

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