Last week’s Internet-wide SOPA/PIPA protests divided the Internet between content owners looking for stronger anti-piracy tools and technologists who believed the proposed legislation was an overreach. Those opposed said SOPA/PIPA opened the door to content companies taking down sites such as Tumblr and WordPress based on infringement by even one of the sites’ millions of [...]
Two new episodes of This Week In Music are ready for your viewing and educational pleasure at ThisWeekIn.com, YouTube, and iTunes: We celebrated Black Friday with the head of the music industry’s retail trade group, NARM, Jim Donio. Jim educated us on the history of music retail, which didn’t start out as I’d imagined. To [...]
You need Sonos. Sonos + your iPhone or iPad + the subscription service of your choice = LOVE. If you haven’t experienced this first-hand yet you’re missing out. It will change your music listening habits. Don’t front. Grab one of the great-sounding new Sonos Play:3s or go crazy with a full Sonos system for your [...]
Just a quick post to let you know my interview with Universal Music Group’s global head of digital Rob Wells is up and doesn’t suck! Rob is part of the new team brought in by Lucian Grainge to operate UMG as a global company and was instrumental in getting Spotify set as a legal service [...]
It’s 1pm Thursday, October 6th, 2011. Below is the presentation I’m to give in 1 hour at Digital Music Forum West. Hello. My name is Ian Rogers. I’ve been working with digital music for nearly 20 years, first in academia, then with artists and software from Beastie Boys to Winamp to Yahoo! and for the [...]
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