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Pirates Like to Buy Music, Too
From Ars Technica Those who download illegal copies of music over P2P networks are the biggest consumers of legal music options, according to a new study by the BI Norwegian School of Management. Researchers examined the music downloading habits of m...
Radiohead to Testify Against RIAA, Both Ironically and Unironically
From TorretFreak Last month, Radiohead expressed its growing discomfort with record labels that abuse copyrights for their own benefit. In an attempt to take a stand against the labels, the band and several other well known artists formed the...
iTunes Removes DRM, Pending Payment
Apple’s MacWorld keynote (not given by Steve Jobs, for those of you rock dwellers out there) was given recently, and the famed “one more thing” was a removal of DRM from iTunes music. This system existed before (iTunes Plus is ...
5 Reasons why you Shouldn’t Buy “Greatest Hits” Albums
After a long and extensive career, musicians often release a greatest hits album: a conglomeration of the hit singles they had during their career. The purpose for these is ostensibly so that newcomers to the band or casual fans can pick up thei...
Christmas Music — Already?!?
I was going about my business yesterday, when I heard that there was a radio station playing Christmas music. It also is the beginning of November. This really exacerbates the problem that everyone gets sick of those songs by Christmas when they...
Musical Taste and Elitism
There are two kinds of people in the world: you’ve heard this statement a million times, and the apothesis of it is usually some kind of sweeping generalization. When it comes to music, people think in binary as well: you have your rap/hip...
