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Read MoreTag: itunes
Links: iTunes still sucks, Spotify not compressing as much, the Great Cultural Fragmentation.
“It’s like giving somebody a glass of hell in ice water.”
Read MoreLegal links: copyright trolls’ comeuppance, the iTunes Terms and Conditions Graphic Novel.
Copyright troll lawyers getting hung out to dry certainly counts as a happy ending.
Read MoreLinks: The record industry is still suicidally stupid, torrented MKV at 11.
Shazam makes a profit but not from records, the record industry goes back to trying to sue the Internet out of existence, the record industry thinks a YouTube employee is really working for them for free, Spotify and Soundcloud will prove that 2+2=1.
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Music industry prays for rain, one of Mute’s sound engineers, NEVER run iTunes on your music production computer.
Read MoreImogen Heap doesn’t make the blockchain hype make sense either.
The big name in recent “blockchain” (Bitcoin) hype is Imogen Heap. As far as I can tell, it’s still the case that nothing about this is going to work.
Read MoreApple wants free streaming and videos on YouTube shut down.
Of course the new distribution channels are going to act like the old distribution channels. Apple wants to relaunch Beats as a new and
Read MoreHelp the suffering stars of Tidal.
With the tidal.com app sinking without trace for no better reason than that it’s terrible and there’s no conceivable reason to bother with it,
Read MoreFool me six times, shame on my parents.
Yahoo! Music is shutting down, and its DRM servers with it. All four of you who bought a track there are losing it shortly.
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