Tag Archives: file sharing

Music Ally’s “Can Music Be Free?” Week

By John Furnari | Published: November 30, 2009
The guys over at Music Ally have a really interesting feature going this week - a series of Q&A sessions revolving around the debate “Can Music Be Free?” It’s a serious question to tackle, and they’re bringing the best and brightest out to take a stab at it.  Today they spoke with Robin Kent of Rebel [...]
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Clarity In the War on Blogs? - Blogger Updates DMCA Complaint Policy

By John Furnari | Published: August 27, 2009
Back in February we covered an interesting situation brewing in the world of music blogging.  At the time, many bloggers were experiencing a complete removal of content from their sites due to DMCA copyright policy without any real insight into what infringements they may have committed.  Clearly this raised many eyebrows, but resulted in very [...]
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Social Awareness = Equality

By Greg Cargill | Published: August 23, 2009
I love the positive impact that online social media is slowly having on our physical social world. By providing everyone a level soapbox to scream from we are seeing some truly oppressed voices be heard. There are many aspects to any system of justice, including the U.S. justice system, that have been set because of influence [...]
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The Pirate Bay: Bringing Food to the Victims

By zoe | Published: May 20, 2009
Even if you’re not glued to the internet, you’ve probably heard of The Pirate Bay.  Once the 106th most visited site on the internet (the entire internet), the site and its owners have been tangled in legal proceedings since May 2006 when Swedish police raided their offices and seized their servers.  Granted, they were hosting [...]
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Music Streaming Services vs. Music Ownership

By tristan | Published: April 15, 2009
Can music streaming services replace music ownership? This is one of the never ending questions I hear pertaining to the music industry. Because we are in a transitional state from physical retail album sales to digital distribution and online music streaming, answers to questions like this have the potential to reshape to how artists, record labels, [...]
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