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Slicethepie releases first fan-funded album
News Bands post their music demos on Slicethepie to be reviewed by users before fans have the chance to finance the recording of an album and take a stake in revenues generated by its sales. The first album to be solely financed by users of music... [06 Mar 2008]
Music industry gets web 2.0 shake up as fans grab a slice
News Slicethepie allows artists to put their music into the public domain to be reviewed by music fans who can then choose to fund the recording of an album and even get a stake in future revenues. Music funding website Slicethepie is aiming to shake up... [18 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.03.06
Round-Up The Round-Up is expecting at least one reader to get on their soapbox and suggest a song from The Cure album Boys Don't Cry - and it's not '10:15 Saturday Night'. Apparently, and again this is a fact which perhaps does little credit to the people... [10 Mar 2006]
iTunes storms into top 10 music sales chart
News For its comparison, the company compared 12 separate song downloads at iTunes to a single album purchase at an ordinary retail store. According to figures from the Recording Industry Association of America, digital sales accounted for slightly more... [22 Nov 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.09.05
Round-Up An email from 7Digital, the company behind the online release, read: "After recording and releasing an album in such a short period of time we have since noticed that the sound quality on Damien Rice's Cross-eyed Bear isn't what it should be. [16 Sep 2005]
First legal blitz launched against UK music sharers
News People come up to me and say, 'I downloaded your album, and I can't wait to go out and buy it'. The BPI's US equivalent, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), has sued over a thousand people - most famously a 12-year old girl. [07 Oct 2004]
File-sharing has no impact on CD sales, says research
News Even high levels of file-swapping seemed to translate into an effect on album sales that was "statistically indistinguishable from zero," they wrote. While downloads occur on a vast scale, most users are likely individuals who would not have bought... [30 Mar 2004]
Linn Kivor System is a Dream Come True for Serious Audiophiles
White Paper The Kivor systems, powered by AMD Duron processors, can support up to 16 users independently, each using a keypad that provides access to every track, album or play list in the system. The Kivor is a web-enabled hard disk-based recording and... [24 Feb 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.02.04
Round-Up The usual suspects were all present and up for nominations in categories as glamorous as Best International Female Recording Artist, Best Rock Group, Best Album and Lifetime Achievement.no, hang on, that is the Brits isn't it. [20 Feb 2004]
Will's Web Watch: Leave the file sharers alone
Comment I don’t listen to the radio, but it's no different to hearing a track on the radio and deciding you want to go out and buy the album. The Recording Industry Association of America has been clamping down on illegal file-sharing since it first became... [08 Sep 2003]
Music industry will come after corporates in file-sharing war
News I've seen an Eminem greatest hits album. The warning follows moves by the Recording Industry Association of America to sue hundreds of individual file-sharers who use services such as Kazaa for breach of copyright. [30 Jul 2003]
Record industry cutting off nose to spite face
News I don’t listen to the radio, but it's no different to hearing a track on the radio and deciding you want to go out and buy the album," he added. Critics of the Recording Industry Association of America and its hard line of file sharing have long... [08 May 2003]
Madonna's site hacked as file-sharers fight dirty
News Madonna's website has been hacked by advocates of illegal file-sharing after the US singer attempted to discredit services such as KaZaA with a series of phoney files, all purporting to be versions of her latest album. [23 Apr 2003]
Kylie Minogue: All yours for £4.99 per month
News In order to burn 15 songs, which is a standard album's worth of tracks, the consumer will have to part with £15 - the average price of a chart CD in most record stores. This week the Recording Industry Association of America renewed its war of... [28 Aug 2002]
ISPs sued over Napster-like site access
News They also say that some tracks have been distributed through the service before their official release, such as Mary J Blige's album Dance For Me. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), internet piracy of music has... [19 Aug 2002]
