Last year, we were talking to a record label about how they could use our social media platform Media Factory to better engage fans and maybe make money again. My gut feeling then was that the future of artist-fan relationships was in a personal subscription model. As part of my research, I joined Take This
Does the Canadian iTunes store carry DRM-free music? iTunes Canada carries songs free of DRM? After Googling this question a couple times, I thought I would make it easier to find the answer. The answer is yes, but not all songs. You can tell by the words “iTunes Plus” above the buy now button. I
Nine Inch Nails just release their new album The Slip as a %100 free download. I might go so far as to say it is a %110 free download, given the extremely open set of formats it which it is available: High-quality MP3s (87 mb) – encoded with LAME at V0, fully tagged. FLAC lossless
Sorry for the delay. Stop biting your nails, curl up in a comfortable chair with a hot cup of tea and read this final chapter of my essay. So the Federal Court of Appeal made it clear that the area of downloading, hard drives and file sharing remains a very grey area. In future cases,
Please see (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) Part 3 ended with the trial judge explaining that copying music was ok, since we Canadians have to pay a tax on blank CDs that is supposed to be distributed to labels to mitigate the monetary loss made possible by the public’s God-given right to do