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Event Report: “Music As Culture” @ OpenMusicMedia (London, UK)
Is every piece of music that’s created a cultural artifact worthy of saving for future generations? The answer, according to music industry veteran Andrew Dubber and digital culture pioneer Jez Collins, is a resounding “yes”.







Peter Sunde, one of the founders and former spokesperson of BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, recently debuted a new venture…one that will actually make content owners money instead of bleeding them dry. The project is in the form of a service, called Flattr (get it, like flattering?) that aims to...


Everyone is now well familiar with the story of Spiral Frog and how it buried the ad-supported download model. Reasons given for this are numerous, ranging from reports of blatant mismanagement to non-compatibility with iPods to consumer resistance to being force fed a 60 or 90 second commercial before the...