… available free to anyone with a broadband connection,” he said. While absolutely correct, everyone also knows that the following is … of noisy cinema-goers singing their own version of his songs, probably all in D-Minor. The video would undoubtedly bring a whole new …
… collected royalties to the writers and publishers of the songs. The trouble is, they have a tendency to take their music-police status a … that PRS! But it wasn’t to be. The PRS got in touch and said that Mrs Burt’s singing constituted a live performance and was subject to …
… Gaming Factory, the proposed buyer of The Pirate Bay, said it will call an Extraordinary General Meeting for the purpose of electing … be the world’s largest music archive covering 20 million songs. He has also owned Modern World Music for the last 26 years. The third …
… Mason, the Pink Floyd drummer, after they came out and said that file-sharing is beneficial for artists. Both O’Brien and Mason are … our ability to nurture and develop great musicians and the songs and albums that we would hope to listen to in the future,” Blunt …
… earlier this year, the band’s lead vocalist Tony Dekker said that although he doesn’t share files himself and would prefer it if fans … in 2008, after which Robert Plant said he liked the band’s songs. Getting noticed by a big name was a boost for them but it was the band’s …
… student from Boston admitted to downloading and sharing 30 songs in 2004, faced a fine up to $4.5 million – $150,000 per infringement. … into our ongoing education and anti-piracy programs,” he said. In total, the RIAA has spent over a million dollars on this case …
… online in the past three months. Downloading individual songs is even more popular in this group, with 16 percent indicating that they … was that nearly half (49%) of all music pirates said that downloading music should be cheaper than buying a disc. This means …
… source for discovering music. Getting new and unknown songs from all kinds of obscure sources was only part of the fun — MAKING your … the mixtape phenomenon with it. “And then P2P came along,” said ZXQL, “and like it did for commercial music and movies, it changed the …
… early March 2009, Michael Jackson biographer Ian Halperin said he had proof that the ‘King of Pop’ had recorded as many as 100 unreleased … denied the existence of the plan behind the unreleased songs. Now, unless Jackson really has died (which we very much doubt) that plan …
… since only 3% of the people who participated in the study said that file-sharers should be punished by law. These results are not … unthinkable that someone could have access to millions of songs, on demand. Now, this has become reality, but the music industry is still …
… hand. When the band encouraged fans to share one of their songs with friends, IFPI went after a fan who posted the song on his website. … were not involved,” Brian Message, co-manager of Radiohead said. Similarly, Europe is currently planning to extend copyright on audio …
