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P2P users may be music industry’s best friend after all

By melissa | Published: November 2, 2009
I haven't been a P2P user for nearly a decade now, but there was a shining moment back in graduate school when Napster's bounty of music looked shiny and irresistible. Though discovery tools were primitive, Napster made it simple enough to find bands that one liked, then to browse the music collection of those who also liked said band. In this way I discovered The Jayhawks and dove deeper into Radiohead—which at the time I knew only as the band who had done "Creep" some years before. Those downloads made no money for the artists, but that exposure turned me into a huge fan of both groups and it wasn't long before I spent my afternoons scavenging the used CD shops of Chapel Hill to find more of the incredible music I was discovering.
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15 Twitter Users Shaping the Future of Publishing

By melissa | Published: October 22, 2009
Maria Schneider covers writing, publishing and social media at Editor Unleashed . Follow her on Twitter . A lively ongoing conversation is taking place on Twitter about where the publishing industry is headed. With digital media overshadowing its legacy media counterpart, publishers are struggling to figure out pricing, digital rights issues and how to market digital content. These are similar to the struggles the music industry has faced over the past few years.
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Activision pulls Kurt Cobain Guitar Hero 5 footage off YouTube

By melissa | Published: October 14, 2009
It looks like attorney power has prevailed after it’s been discovered that Activision has participated in the pulling of Guitar Hero 5 Kurt Cobain videos from YouTube. Courtney Love, Cobain’s widow wasn’t too chuffed to discover that the Nirvana star was being used to sing songs from other artists. She eventually called on her attorney in an attempt to put a stop to it before launching a foul-mouthed Twitter tirade in the direction of Activision. And it looks as if Activision has l
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Jamie Tworkowski Of To Write Love On Her Arms Nominated For MTVU Woodie Award

By admin | Published: October 6, 2009
To Write Love on Her Arms  is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery and was founded by Jamie Tworkowski in 2006.    Jamie Tworkowski of TWLOHA has been nominated for a  2009 mtvU Woodie Award . He is nominated for the  “Good Woodie,”  an award for the artists whose commitment to a social caus
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DEAL: Warner Music Artists to Return to YouTube

By melissa | Published: September 29, 2009
Last week, we reported that YouTube and Warner Music had settled their differences and were going to bring Warner Music artists and content back to YouTube . YouTube and Warner, however, had made no announcement. Now it’s official.
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Last Quiet Before the Storm

By admin | Published: September 16, 2009
This week our editors, in all genres, began to send out their solicitations under the advisement of their team managers. The managers, responsible for keeping track of who we have asked to submit work to us and gathering contact information of the artists and writers we’re asking to submit, have been busy helping their editors prepare for the responses that will begin filtering in. Our Content Team has been busy keeping track of what’s going in and out of our editors’ hands still. As work come
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Bandsintown Turns Local Live Music Discovery Up to 11

By admin | Published: August 14, 2009
We’ve covered the online music community Bandsintown a few times before , and today sees the launch of a major new feature set for the site.
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Rapidshare Fined $34 Million for Copyright Infringement

By admin | Published: June 24, 2009
Let’s call a spade a spade: it’s no secret that file hosting service Rapidshare has long been a haven for distributing copyrighted content. However, it’s a question of principle: must a file hosting service, essentially unrelated to the actual content of the files it hosts, also act as a policeman, actively seeking and removing content that violates copyright? German court says – yes .
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Songkick’s Social Concert Database Chronicles One Million Events

By admin | Published: June 23, 2009
Concert tracking and ticket listing site Songkick provides a great service for finding concerts near you . Today they’re taking concert tracking to the next level by turning user experiences at events into a social concert database.
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