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Digital distribution: Streaming takes over, Apple goes label, go to your listeners, Bandcamp 2016.
The fine art of getting your music to paying listeners as of late 2016.
Read MoreFrom the high seas: Pirate Bay in Australia, DDOS attacks, Kickass Torrents revived, monetising piracy.
Yo ho ho and three megabytes of hot RAM.
Read MoreLinks: Spotify malware ads, music manuscript fonts, drugs. And Blockchain.
It’s been another busy day with Blockchains in. Have some links.
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.
Read MoreThe streamingpocalypse first hit the record industry in the 1930s. It was called radio.
The music industry occasionally forgets that entertainment is an optional expense, consumer confidence is a critical material condition for what they do, and when times are tough people stop spending.
Read MoreSo let’s give this Spotify thing a go.
I tried Last.fm around 2009 when I was applying for a job with them. The computer-generated personal radio station thing is amusing in its way. I can’t see myself wandering around with my phone using up my data plan on streaming music; it’ll be strictly a desktop, or rather laptop, thing.
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 MoreNew Spotify stratagem: get your fans to stream your silence.
Mashing together public domain audio to get cash out of Spotify is too much like work. Vulfpeck, a funk band from Ann Arbor, have
Read MoreDo-it-yourself payola on Spotify.
In the olden days, you needed to bribe DJs or just buy a bootload of copies of your record yourself. These days, you can
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