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Apple And EMI Announce DRM-Free Music Downloads

You now have the ability to download the entire EMI artist catalog DRM-free. No usage restrictions. Plus the audio is encoded at 256 kbps, twice the quality of the current bit rate.
Check the press releases for the full details:
EMI: EMI Music launches DRM-free superior sound quality downloads across its entire digital repertoire
Apple: Apple Unveils Higher [...]

Wal-Mart to RIAA: We’re Not Gonna Take It!

CD prices have been too high for over a decade. It seems that Wall-Mart has gotten tired of it because they are cutting CD prices. It takes a retail giant like this to tip CD pricing trends in our favor.
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Recording Industry Bans Musician From Charts For Supporting Free Music

So now we’ve got the thought police in the music industry. Now, more than ever, is it crucial that you maintain control over your musical destiny. Long Tail marketing give you the power and freedom to create your own path. read more.
BPI, the UK version of the RIAA, has banned a twelve year-old singer songwriter [...]

Music Industry Now Targets Tablature Sites

First it was services that provided music, then it was sites that offered lyrics. Now the music industry has trained its legal guns upon guitar tablature, and several of them have already been shuttered.
I forsee all of this ending in a pretty ugly revolt. The fat cats are getting fatter which means they’re getting too [...]

A Sick Display Of The RIAA

You need to read this BoingBoing article because it’s important as a musician to understand the values of the RIAA. I’ll leave it up to you to decide if you share these values… or not.

Keeping Honest People Honest

This is one of those lists that can piss you off! I’d say that it’s a lot more than embarrassing. It’s down right unethical.
From Embarrassing questions for the entertainment industry:
# The RIAA has sued more than 20,000 music fans for file sharing, yet file sharing continues to rapidly increase both online and offline. When will [...]

Canadian Music-Management Giant Defends File-Sharer From RIAA

Canadian music-management giant defends file-sharer from RIAA:
“Litigation is not ‘artist development.’ Litigation is a deterrent to creativity and passion and it is hurting the business I love,” insists McBride. “The current actions of the RIAA are not in my artists’ best interests.”
Great point. So refreshing to see people speak out that “get it.”

Boycott-RIAA.com - Why?

Why Boycott? The RIAA is a professional lobby organization of recording labels of which five labels control 90% of the music distributed in the US. In 1999 these so called “protectors” of the music industry and musicians released only 2600 CDs.

New RIAA/MPAA “Customary Historic Use” Plan

New RIAA/MPAA “Customary Historic Use” Plan:
Random_Transit writes “Ars Technica is reporting that the EFF has dug up plans by the RIAA/MPAA to stifle the consumer electronics market by replacing it’s “fair use” policy with something called “Customary Historic Use”. This new policy would effectively keep anyone from inventing any new type of media device without [...]

No Mr. Ballmer, You Cannot Have the Web

RSS made it possible for everyone to participate in publishing on equal technological footing with NYT.
Specifically for musicians, blogging and podcasting make it possible for musicians to participate in music publishing on better technological footing than the major labels.
The kicking-and-screaming RIAA is clinging to CDs while digital delivery of music via P2P is winning the [...]