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A post on The Next Web reminds us that the CD is thirty years old this month . As the history there explains, work began back in the 197...

Levies on blank storage media are a relic of older times when copying was a new possibility for copyright works. You no longer needed an...

On the first LP I ever owned was Tchaikovsky's Serenade, Ravel's Bolero and Smetana's "Bartered Bride" Overture. It w...

There has been some criticism that Spotify doesn't really bring in much money for the artists concerned (the labels, of course, do fine...

I always said Brazil was a civilised country: O MinC proporá que a cópia privada de qualquer tipo de obra digital seja permitida sem a auto...

Recently, I bought the complete works of Brahms . Of course, I was faced with the by-now common problem of whether to buy nostalgic CDs, or...

Interesting figures from new research : Marrakesh Records and Human Capital surveyed 1,000 15 to 24-year-olds highlighting not just how impo...

When the going gets tough, the tough...go to the library : Fewer people bought books, CD’s, and DVD’s in 2008 than in the year before. The n...

Recently, I’ve started buying records. I’ve decided that CDs just aren’t enough of a collector’s item. Since I can own all the music I could...

One of the many flashes of insight that the Asus Eee PC has provided me with is that DVDs are dead. The Eee PC has no CD/DVD drive, but let...

I'm not the biggest fan of private equity companies, but they do have the virtue of being ruthlessly logical: they are not enslaved by h...

The Kindle is a breakthrough device, in many ways analogous to the first iPod. Just as the iPod brought MP3 players to the masses, the Kindl...

Imagine : A newly study commissioned by Industry Canada, which includes some of the most extensive surveying to date of the Canadian populat...

Look, this content stuff is quite easy. It costs money to make a CD because it's a physical object, and if you take a CD from a shop, t...

Well, part of the music industry seems to have got half the message - that it needs to offer something beyond the music that is circulating ...

I didn't comment on this piece from TechCrunch entitled " The inevitable march of recorded music towards free " since it large...

Radiohead has a new album that you can download - and choose how much you pay. Alternatively, it has a CD version, two vinyl records, an e...

I was pleased to see that the story about Prince giving away CDs in various ways, and making money from live performances, is starting to g...

As I and a few other enlightened individuals have been banging on about for some time, allowing digital files to be copied is not the end of...

This litany of music industry woes is an object lesson in what happens if you fight the (Net) Family: The major labels are struggling to re...