TechDirt’s Michael Masnick On The State Of The Music Industry

This video captures Michael Masnick’s Learning From What’s Working: Success Stories From The Music Commerce Frontier. Masnick is the founder of TechDirt – a technology blog that has been a vocal critic of the music industry’s approach to technology, especially DRM and its opposition to P2P file sharing. You can safely skip the first 2… Read More TechDirt’s Michael Masnick On The State Of The Music Industry

Free Album From Nine Inch Nails The Best Selling Album Of 2008

Need a reminder that the Internet has changed the economics of music? Nine Inch Nails‘ Creative Commons licensed Ghosts I-IV, which was released as a free download, is ranked the best selling MP3 album of 2008 on Amazon’s MP3 store. Despite the fact that you could download Ghosts legally from file-sharing networks, and despite the fact… Read More Free Album From Nine Inch Nails The Best Selling Album Of 2008