- 35 Years Ago Today (well, yesterday): the launch of Home Taping is Killing Music! Yet more major label promises they completely failed to come through on. I ask you.
- Some elements are trying. Music biz faces rampant piracy threat as stream ripping jumps 60% in 2016!!! Translation: one company promoting itself making the claim. There is no actual evidence this is any sort of significant thing. (And if it ever turns out to be, suing won’t stop anyone for a second.)
- Why streaming is popular, and why the labels want to kill it, squeeze it for more money and embrace it wholeheartedly, all in one handy chart:
- In non-industry news: The 70 Greatest Conspiracy Theories in Pop-Culture History. Includes the Beatles never existed, but conspicuously fails to include Theodor Adorno writing all their songs in the service of Cultural Marxist propaganda. Obviously the major labels at work to suppress vital organic culture again.
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