Chris Ruen has written a pretty intense and scathing article about the acceptability of piracy on Tiny Mix Tapes, The Myth of DIY. The viewpoint isn’t anything new, but coming from an artist and member of a community that targets the industry more the consumer, it’s somewhat arresting, and at least, really well written. An [...]

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Maybe you’ve heard that Rapidshare, everyone’s most/least favorite multi-petabyte hoster, was ordered to remove $34 million worth of content, and faces a potentially huge fine by order of a German court.
Could this injunction be painted as a victory of the small, artisan download blog (ahem) versus the corporate feed farm of file sharing? Probably not, [...]

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By now you’ve hopefully seen the Guardian’s recent study that proved music “pirates” are ten times more likely to buy music than people who don’t download music illegally. The good folks at Discontent tipped us off about this article in their lovely review of Kissing/Samba Party.
But damn, ten times more likely? Does this have to [...]

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I’m on the promo list for a bunch of anonymous PR companies who send me the most inane emails, often as if they’re the artist themselves. I searched for “genre” and “seamlessly” in my inbox, only drawing from the last two months:
…heaps of genre bending cello playing..
…they’ve been making forward thinking, genrebreaking music for nearly [...]

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Microfinancing, perhaps the hottest economic trend, has made its way to music over the last few years. You’ve probably heard of Sellaband. The service asks you to chip in for an artist on varying degrees to help them get enough money to record an album. Your reward for doing so is a copy of the [...]

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“You can’t steal a gift. Bird gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it” – Dizzy Gillespie
Hey all, Casey from Flora & Fauna here. A strong personal interest of mine is the positive and negative flow between creativity, copyright, and influence. I’ve excerpted portions from a wonderful essay [...]

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We posted this over at my blog, onethirtybpm, when the episode was originally released, but I’ve recently viewed it again. It’s really sparked some new ideas I have for Amazing Wow.
Anyway, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor took a series of questions voted on by readers in a 40-minute video interview by the popular news [...]

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The RIAA’s internet webpage, piratically my homepage, directed me to the IFPI’s (International Federation for the Phonographic Industry) annual report on digital music. Low expectations segued into mild outrage as I read. I’m not disputing their statistics about how many people download music a year. But what pisses the shit out of me is the [...]

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The RIAA has been busy sending pre-litigation letters to students at many colleges and univeristies.
However, the one university that hasn’t recieved any letters is Harvard. The Recording Industry Association of America has made it known that file-sharing is wrong and against the law, but when it comes to stirring up a fight over at Harvard [...]

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If you didn’t hear already, the RIAA is no longer sueing individuals for downloading copyrighted music. Now downloaders can get up to 5,000 songs a month without getting fined. The RIAA has set their crosshairs on ISPs instead.
As a show of solidarity with the RIAA, Amazing Wow will no longer be prosecuting those who download [...]

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