An answer to the music industry’s woes slipped into the IFPI Annual Report last week, but its significance went unnoticed. Before I get to it, though, here’s a poser.

“We screw the struggling artist, and pay the suit,” Nick Carr mused recently. Carr was examining a contradiction: information has never been less free, it’s never had as much as much value attached to it. Once you add up your Sky Sub, mobile broadband bill, and the many other information … Read More

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The following letter was sent from a K12 school account in a southern US state. It illustrates the problems facing both paid legal download services, such as Apple’s iTunes Music Store and Napster, and the RIAA’s attempt to combat the illegal download services.

We’ve protected their identity, for reasons which should become obvious.

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