Over the last few years we have criticized the major music labels for their lack of innovation and their inability to adapt their business models to the digital era. Sometimes, however, we have side with a label instead of the artist.
Carol Kaye, the 74 year old bass guitar legend recently discovered that some of her sheet music and courses are available on numerous torrent sites. She is determined to stop this blatant piracy, but unfortunately she’s targeting the wrong person.
Half a decade ago there were only a handful of musicians who shared their music via file-sharing networks, but this has changed radically.
BitTorrent sites have slowly started to replace record stores, with peers taking care of the music distribution.
Alan Carton, the brain behind the music release info blog Diditleak died of cancer last week. Alan was 23 years old.
Mininova received a serious blow last year when it had to remove thousands of torrents from its database. But one apparent loss can quickly turn into another’s gain.
In response to our offer to let our readers have their voices heard, FreakBits reader Ruslan from Russia has written an article which he hopes will provide the seeds for peace between BitTorrent users and content providers.
Neil Gaiman, best selling author and writer of the recent film Coraline, has added his voice to the opposition of new anti-piracylegislation proposed by the British government, in the form of a letter to the original author, Lord Carter of Barnes.
After the success of ‘Dear Lily’ and now sitting on the cusp of greatness with his sequel ‘Dear Mandy’, FreakBits caught up with Dan Bull for a quick chat, to find out a little more about this upcoming artist.
This week Zombieland writer/director Rhett Reese stated that illegal downloads on BitTorrent may prevent a sequel of the film from being shot. In addition, the filmmaker attacked several twitter user who claimed to have downloaded the film.
When MC Lars released “download this song” on his fifth studio album back in 2006 he was urging the record labels to reconsider their outdated business models. Not much has changed in the three years that passed, let’s hope there will be some progress in 2012.
Today it’s 090909, and this is also the name of a new experimental art project of filmmaker Anders Weberg that’s being released on BitTorrent trackers near you.
Introducing a FreakBits guest post by Iras – an African rap lyricist, composer & storyteller who decided to release his entire discography for free.
