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
Although their points of view of the authors are very different, the content of their papers show some common ground. Dolfsma states, although ineffectively, that the Internet should be “free of copyright control” but the Carlson School of Management argues that the “enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights… is crucial to the viability of online
The article The Move to Artist-Led Online Music Distribution: Explaining Structural Changes in the Digital Music Market (2005) by Jesse Bockstedt, Robert J. Kauffman and Frederick J. Riggins of the Carlson School of Management is an expository analysis of the future structure of the music industry and the role of digital technology players in the
I am putting together a series of blog posts that originally started as essays I had written while at university from 2004 to 2006. One paper I wrote in 2005 was: “The Future of Music Business, Law and Technology: A Critical Analysis of Related Articles on the Topic of Digital Music.” Quite a mouthful. The