Tag Archives: Music

Feb200916

Anne Kathrine Petterøe

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Pirate Bay On Trial

The trial in Stockholm, Sweden against The Pirate Bay starts today.

If you are using BitTorrent you should be following this!
50% of all torrents are tracked by The Pirate Bay’s 8 servers, so some of us (me included) worries what will happen if they are forced to shut them down.
You can read more on Torrentfreak.com here.

Makes me wonder if people are aware that BitTorrent can be used to share files which are not necessarily violating any copyright laws?

You can follow the trial on twitter with the hashtag #spectrial:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23spectrial.
There is also a live audio feed from the trial on Bambuser.com (Swedish only).

Dec200719

Anne Kathrine Petterøe

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Thom York in Conversation with David Byrne

yorke byrne

This is great!

Wired brought David Byrne (Talking Heads) and Thom Yorke (Radiohead) together, to talk about the real value of music and about Radiohead’s In Rainbows distribution strategy.
Hearing this from one innovative musician to the other, i.e. without too much business stuff, made me understand the deal a little bit better.

Yorke: “The only reason we could even get away with this, the only reason anyone even gives a shit, is the fact that we’ve gone through the whole mill of the business in the first place. It’s not supposed to be a model for anything else. It was simply a response to a situation.”

You can read the whole interview over at Wired Magazine here