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John Mellencamp and Stevie Nicks are the latest aging music stars to publicly express their distaste for the way the internet has changed the music industry. Mellencamp equated the web’s effect on music to “the atomic bomb,” and stated that it “destroyed the music business.” Nicks has recently claimed that “The internet has destroyed rock,” [...]

nbcchicago

Rock goddess Stevie Nicks isn’t exactly thrilled about what has happened to the music industry these days and fears that younger artists’ careers are going to be impacted as a result. “The Internet has destroyed rock,” the 62-year-old singer told The Daily News. “Children no longer develop social graces. They don’t hang out anymore. [...]

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Rocker John Mellencamp, 58, says the Internet is dangerous and destructive. Speaking at a public seminar at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles last night, Mellencamp said, “I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb. It’s destroyed the music business. It’s going to destroy the movie business.”….
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Kenny G isn’t bowing down to Prince.The saxophonist candidly joked in response to a recent interview in which Prince said the Internet is completely over. Kenny G says if the Internet is dead “then I must be dead, too, ’cause I use it all the time.” He adds with a laugh: “Maybe I’ve got a [...]

contactmusic

Pop superstar PRINCE is adamant he will never sell his songs on the internet, insisting web-based outlets will soon disappear because they are no longer “hip”. The Purple Rain hitmaker has long battled to keep his music offline - in 2007 he sued video sharing website YouTube.com as well as eBay.com claiming they “are clearly [...]

hiphopdx

In September, 2007, the Hip Hop world was rocked when a 17 year-old Georgia native named DeAndre Cortez Way, better known as Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em watched his single “Crank That” (Soulja Boy) topped Billboard’s Hot 100 charts. The then 16 year-old dropped a song that displayed little in the way of rhyme skill, with [...]

Matthew Nudell
hamilton.edu

In an effort to stem the tide of illegal music and file sharing on campus, Hamilton’s Information Technology Services (ITS) created a list of legal alternatives for downloading music and movies. At the top of this list are Apple’s music juggernaut iTunes and the lesser-known internet radio web-site Pandora.
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No one knows when and how exactly the music was invented in the first time. The matter of fact music has always been existed in the history of human kinds. Today, the music has largely been developed in many different types and it seems to be one of the most effective ways to entertain us. [...]

Rachel Cheng
stateofaffairs.info

Since the dawn of the internet and file-sharing, record companies began to see major losses in their profits. With the new technology changing the world of music distribution, the actors involved have yet to adapt. So far we have seen various responses from musicians and record labels…
1. Integrating products, software, and forced paid downloading
Some [...]

The music industry is fickle and not for the faint of heart. Physical CD sales are dropping precipitously as consumers’ listening and purchasing habits change. The retail landscape has shifted drastically, with industry cornerstones like Tower Records and other formerly rock-solid chains now closed. Major labels are consolidating and downsizing. Independent music retailers – [...]

A group that collects royalties for music artists and recording companies has agreed to reduce rates for thousands of commercial radio stations that also play songs over the Internet.
Internet radio station operators had complained that rates originally set by the federal Copyright Royalty Board in 2007 could essentially force them to shut down. The new [...]

There’s been fresh interest recently, in the light of the Digital Britain report, in some form of taxation on Internet access in the UK. The idea is that copyright holders could be compensated for the losses they incur through copyright infringement by online file-sharers. The suggestion seems to be that we’d each pay something like [...]

There are so many musicians putting their music on the internet these days. Some of them are consummate professionals who have high production values and years of experience and practice behind them. Some are posting YouTube Videos entitled Me, Learning to Play the Guitar - Day 2.
Prior to the internet, the finished recording was the [...]

Japan’s Internet music market saw healthy growth in the third quarter of this year but a collapse in the once-mighty ringtone market led to mixed results for the cell phone sector of the country’s digital music industry, according to figures released on Friday. Total downloads over the Internet and on cell phones totalled 118 million [...]

Life seemed so much simpler in 1914, when Tin Pan Alley’s songwriters and music publishers founded the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, to protect its members’ musical copyrights. Today, the music organization still collects licensing fees from users of music created by its members, and distributes money back to them as royalties. Of [...]

MP3 – short for MPEG audio layer 3 – has generated so much press coverage that entire rainforests have been destroyed to cope with the demand for newspaper, and the hot air emanating from panicky music industry meetings has punched a new hole in the ozone layer.
The reason for the fuss is that MP3, a [...]

For many of us, our mobile phone is already a smart prosthesis. Not only does it connect us vocally to others, link us to networks of information and entertain us during downtime, it captures what we see and hear.
In the all-too-imminent Internet of Things, a near-field communication-enabled handset could scan an RFID-tagged poster of a [...]

The fuss in live music lately has been over ticketing - fees, secondary markets and paperless have dominated the discussion. But the net is also broadening the live music landscape in ways well beyond dockets. Just as the net revolutionized the creation, marketing and distribution of recorded music, a growing number of companies are [...]