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18 September 2013
Once Again Top Downloaders Are Top Spenders, According To UK Gov't Study
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If there's one clear trend that has emerged in recent years, it's that those who download and share unauthorized copies of files...
28 March 2011
Pig-headedness, not Piracy, Killed Recorded Music
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An extremely feeble article in the Guardian parrots the recording industry's line that piracy is killing music: Global recorded music ...
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16 March 2009
Why Music Companies are Doomed Regardless
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One of the favourite tropes in the music industry is that they'd all be rolling in it like the good old days if it weren't for those...
02 March 2009
How to Make Money from Music
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Someone's managed : it was recently revealed that rock gods Aerosmith have made more money off of their crummy co-branded version of Gui...
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29 January 2009
More Evidence that File Downloaders Buy *More*
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One of the central fallacies in the argument that sharing is bad for business is the idea that every file downloaded is a sale lost. In fac...
27 January 2009
The Water Commons
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One of the most valuable functions of the concept of "the commons" is that it reframes the terms in which we think of resources. ...
16 December 2008
Spot the Disconnect
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On the one hand, we have a bunch of people I've never heard of whingeing in the Times : We are very concerned that the successes of the...
20 November 2008
Stars of the Screen(shot)
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One of the wondrous things about free software is that there is so much of it. One of my favourite hobbies is using Synaptic to look at all...
12 September 2008
Appassionato about Passionato
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By now, it's evident that the old model of music distribution is irredeemably broken. This has led to various attempts to offer downloa...
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22 February 2008
Firefox Hits 500,000,000 Downloads
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Make mine half a milliard .
16 January 2008
Freeing The Future of Ideas
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Larry Lessig's The Future of Ideas is one of the key books of the open content world, so it's particularly appropriate that it shou...
07 January 2008
Firefox Users Against Boredom
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Statistics show that Firefox Users are more inclined to have rich, exciting experiences on the web and in everyday life. Others, however, fi...
06 November 2007
MuleSource Hits a Million (Downloads)
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MuleSource is not the highest-profile of open source companies, but it is certainly storming away : MuleSource (www.mulesource.com), the lea...
26 October 2007
High-Def, Low Interest
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worrying about the high-def format war is a waste of time. And to be quite honest, I don't see these formats being around much longer an...
09 September 2007
Firefox Hit 400 Million Downloads
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This is worth quoting at length: On November 9th, 2004, you all started a movement. Spread Firefox, supported by tens of thousands of contr...
04 September 2007
Chinese Whispers
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Here's another billion reasons why DRM'd music downloads will die out - and why copyright law will need to be rewritten: Like milli...
30 July 2007
Let the Peoples Sing (Even if No One Listens)
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Hey, music industry, I think the people formerly known as the audience are trying to tell you something : Now in its fourth year, the survey...
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