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Warner Music CEO admits some blame for the rise of P2P file sharing

Edgar Bronfman, CEO of the Warner Music Group, has publicly framed the music industry’s failure to accommodate file-sharing as an ‘inadvertent’ war on consumers. I’m left wondering how you can file a series of lawsuits inadvertently. ‘We expected our business would remain blissfully unaffected even as the world of interactivity, constant connection and file sharing [...]

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RIAA Hits a Sour Note With Its File-Sharing Witch Hunt

RIAA Hits a Sour Note With Its File-Sharing Witch Hunt If I were a big-shot L.A. music mogul, Jammie Thomas would not be my ideal poster child as the face of illegal file sharing. Thomas, you’ll recall, was convicted last week in a Duluth, Minnesota, court for violating copyright law by making a couple of [...]

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Welcome Home WDRE

Anyone who doesn’t know the call sign WDRE didn’t live in the Philadelphia area in the 90s. WDRE was a Philly alternative rock station which introduced alot of amazing artists to the area. Regrettably, the media consolidation of the late 90s made WDRE a liability and they changed their format. However, due in part to [...]

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My 2006 Musical Hits and Misses

I’m trying to go back and listen to all the music I’ve bought/acquired during 2006. It’s more a list for me so that in a few years if an artist comes out with something I can recall whether or not I liked him. So, without further ado. Tom Waits – didn’t like at all. I [...]

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