Post-punk albums in the style of 1960s Penguin nonfiction paperbacks.
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Category: Your rights
I fought the law, and I won.
Links: Spotify metadata, VU meters, songwriting camps, Disney defends fair use, the history of Smash Hits.
Twenty deadly diseases.
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Links: World In Motion, pirates, kids listen to Swans, Irmin Schmidt.
“If there’s one group who can capture the spirit of bitter infighting that typifies being in a World Cup squad …”
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Links: Spotify windowing, Spotify and The Pirate Bay, industry shows piracy correlating with music industry success, Section 26.
The record industry is being blustering idiots about piracy again.
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Links: Frank Zappa ad jingles, runout grooves, AACS keys leaked, old Severed Heads.
And headphones up your nose.
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Links: Sex Pistols, Peter Hook, Martin Hannett, Lee Ranaldo, how music feels, Taylor Swift.
The scourge of music bloggers shall be dealt with.
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Links: “Content Creators Coalition” shoots self in foot, make a film for $10,000, vinyl.
The “Content Creators Coalition” is particularly stupid and hilarious.
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Links: Women’s pop canon, YouTube extortions, photographers win, Put Blood In The Music.
t h e r e s a m a y p o r w a v e
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Links: Denuvo still trash, copyright works, Margaret Thatcher on punk, Sun Ra.
And Tracey Thorn on the lyrical process.
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Music blogger links: just do it, how to do it, how not to make a bad review go away.
Join the exciting and lucrative[citation needed] world of music blogging!
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Links: Simon Draper, music industry sexism, US piracy site bans, punk rock presidential daughter.
and thank you Twitter
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Links: DAF, getting your US copyrights back, where the streaming money goes.
You can guess who makes it big from streaming, and it’s not Spotify.
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DRM is still rubbish: Denuvo broken in hours, Ultra-HD ripped, get-iplayer.
No DRM that people were interested in breaking has ever stayed unbroken.
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Links: Piracy doesn’t affect sales, DC hardcore, Bowie and Cale, early proto-blues.
Und Sisters gegen Nazis.
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Links: Constance Demby, UK copyright trolls’ multiple extortions, The Return of the Giant Slits.
Seriously, check out the space bass.
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Links: MP3, the Pirate Bay mines you, album download code design.
And Spray, compressed and convenient.
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Links: Hollywood blames Rotten Tomatoes, EU members vs EU filtering, blockchain.
And some stadium chiptune.
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Links: Venue archaeology, winning fair use on YouTube, M’era Luna, I wrote a textbook.
You can guess which of these I’m particularly excited by.
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High seas links: trolling the trolls who troll.
Not even copyright trolls like copyright trolls.
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Links: The failed hi-res audio of the 1990s, the risks of piracy, Simon Reynolds’ glam faves.
And the Blockchain Robot!
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Links: FACT publicity for Kodi; more bogus DMCAs; Pere Ubu.
More copyright bogosity and some esoteric new wave.
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Links: Spotify payola, cheap Apple Music, bogus Disney takedowns, music journalism pt 2.
It’s a much more dot-com new economy payola. The Uber of payola.
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Links: FACT using Grenfell Tower for marketing, notice-and-stay-down, perpetual copyright.
Apparently Kodi software is flammable. Who knew?
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Links: Jennifer Lynch photo archive, DMCA spambots, everyone hates blockchains, buzz buzz buzz.
Go send some money Jennifer Lynch’s way. Cultural preservation calls!
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Links: AIR Studios Montserrat, Carl Bernstein the pop critic, net neutrality for musicians.
The net neutrality article is particularly important.
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Links: Denuvo suck and are thieves, Andrew Hickey’s Beach Boys books, Jimmy Webb.
DRM bad, classic rock vastly better.
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Copyright trolls: Malibu media, Prenda, time-travellers, the MAFIAA and how to defend yourself.
Making mass legal extortion a less viable business.
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Links: Wikipedia supports fair use, film archiving, the joys of the B-side.
If I can’t hear music, you can’t either. But that 7″ is amazingly pretty.
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Followups: Facebook dumps virtual reality, Spotify eats Niland, Denuvo still rubbish.
More ongoing thrills.
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Your cyberpunk present: DRMed pets in Second Life starve after corporate battle.
“For the rabbits!” Lennie shouted.
“For the rabbits,” George repeated.