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The Thirty-Second "Napsterization" Item
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Apr 14 20:02 UTC 2008 |
The usual canned introduction:
The original Napster corporation has been destroyed, its trademarks
now owned by an authorized music retailer which does not use
peer-to-peer technology. But the Napster paradigm, in which computers
and networks give ordinary people unprecedented control over content,
continues.
This is another quarterly installment in a series of weblog and
discussion about the deconstruction of the music industry and other
copyright industries, with side forays into "intellectual property,
freedom of expression, electronic media, corporate control, and
evolving technology," as polygon once phrased it.
Several years of back items are easily found in the music2, music3
and music4 conferences, covering discussions all the way back to
the initial popularity of the MP3 format. These items are linked
between the current Agora conference and the Music conference.
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krj
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response 1 of 30:
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Apr 14 20:03 UTC 2008 |
Hug your record store on Saturday! (If you still have one.)
It's "Record Store Day," April 19 2008.
http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/04/happy-record-st.html
http://www.recordstoreday.com/
(Maybe I should go leave carnations on the sites where the good stores
used to be. It's been ten years since Ann Arbor's Schoolkids Records
closed its original store, about eight years since SKR Classical
folded, eight and seven years since the Tower Records outlets went,
and about that long since Michigan Where House Records closed.)
I was realizing the other day that the late 20th century record store
was a creation of the baby boomers and their musical demands, and so
it exits with them.
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