Weekly Music News
Sunday November 8, 2009
- In yet one more reminder that fighting file sharing is futile, McAfee reported this week that since The Pirate Bay was forced to shut down by a Swedish court, there has been a 300% increase in torrent sites. Some of these sites are nothing but virus mills, but many are indeed for sharing music, movies and more. Talk about a losing battle. Read the story on VatorNews.
- Although more people know who shot JFK than how Choruss - the Warner Music designed program to give college students special access to music downloads to discourage file sharing/torrents - will work, the rumors that are trickling out make it sound like any promise that program may have had is being slowly but surely being stripped away in the run-up to the scheduled January debut. I have always thought this program had "failure" written all over it, but it just keeps getting worse. Students, the six colleges involved in the Choruss pilot program are not being revealed so you don't have a chance to weigh in on the subject in advance. Nice, eh? Get educated here, on The Chronicle.
- U2 gave a free, but ticketed, concert in Berlin this week to celebrate 20 years of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Though the show was free, the promoters decided that they didn't want anyone without a ticket to be able to see the show. The solution? Build a big wall around the venue so no one outside could see in. Yes, they built a wall to commemorate the fall of the Wall. Sehr toll, concert promoters! Get the story on MSN.
- Excellent advice from Musician Wages for all of you music teachers out there: How to Find Private Music Students.
- I'm in love with this site: Vinyl Lives - the site "celebrates the independent record store", which is my favorite thing to celebrate (just ask Visa and Mastercard). The site is new, but they have a reader for life in me.
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