Music is important. It is ubiquitous today with good reason: we just can’t get enough of it, and its life-enhancing effect is ever-changing and ongoing.
If it had been possible for the past ten years to download nails, most of us would long ago have acquired all the nails we could possibly need, nail factories would [...]
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Jon, here. Shortly before a2f2a went online, I did a post on p2pnet called Music in the 21st century: framing the debate. It outlined the main goals Billy and I had, and still have, in mind.
My long-suffering wife, Liz, posted a Reader’s Write in which she said, “I may be wrong, but one thing I [...]
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Based in the US and launched in 2000, Zeropaid is one of the net’s original and most popular digital media sites.
“A few weeks ago I mentioned how Jon Newton over at P2PNet began a discussion with Billy Bragg, English alternative rock musician and member of the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC), over how best to create [...]
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Over in the UK, Crosbie Fitch is developing 1p2u (1P to you), which he describes like this:
It’s a little widget you put on your blog
It lets your readers become paying subscribers
Subscribers pay you a penny for each article you write
In other words, his interest in finding ways for people pay each other is more than [...]
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One of the things that’s a really beginning to strike me is: It’s becoming clearer and clearer the supposed gulf between musicians and fans is in the minds of the corporate music industry alone.
A very significant number of fans and artists have something major in common.
They both create music.
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“Everyone knows digital music distribution is a way to cut out the middlemen,” says Mike D, who’s both a musician and a fan.
“You don’t need to have a record company contract to disseminate music to fans, thanks to mp3s and the internet.
“But the other end of this isn’t really discussed much — the production end.”
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Singles sales in the UK are breaking records.
According to Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s BPI (British Phonographic Industry), file sharing is ruining the corporate music industry and if there was any justice, file sharers would be heavily penalised with forcible disconnection from the Internet and jail time included in punitive measures.
The Big [...]