Just moments ago, by a near-unanimous vote, the Senate stood up to Big Media. They voted to throw out the FCC decision to let the largest media companies swallow up even more local media. (1 comment)
Comcast and Cox Communications have manipulated BitTorrent traffic at all hours of the day, not just during times of peak congestion, according to a Thursday study from the Max Planck Institute in Germany. (Read More)
If any industry has felt the brunt of the internet as a disruptive
technology, its the music industry, which has been dealt a heavy blow
by the onset of digital music distribution. On the April 28, the RIAA
again confirmed this state of affairs when reporting
that CD sales, the mainstay of the business for the last 15 years, were
down a whopping 20.5% in 2007. (Read More)
Glastonbury Radio is to feature Mellosonic Radio, a collaboration between UK based independent songwriter/artist Rodrica Rudge and Mellosonic (aka Chris J. Brown), who is a recording engineer/composer from California, U.S.A.
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If this bill is passed in its present form by the Senate and signed, that means there's no more pro forma RIAA lawsuit payoffs, because if you wind up settling with the RIAA, you could still lose all your stuff in addition to any fee you paid them. (3 comments)
We use THIS thread for posting quick links you find from around the web that are of interest to both the DMusic and Boycott-RIAA communities. (127 comments)
A federal judge has just set the rate to be paid for a blanket music license by Yahoo, AOL, and RealNetworks. The three companies could owe songwriters as much as $100 million over seven years as payment for streaming their songs on the web. As the Rolling Stones once noted, "You can't always get what you want," but the songwriters seem to done have all right for themselves this time around. (6 comments)
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