December 2010
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NYT: Music Blogs Caught in Labels’ Piracy Fight
Thanksgiving Day had barely begun when Kevin Hofman’s BlackBerry buzzed. It was one of the technical operators of OnSmash.com, Mr. Hofman’s popular hip-hop blog, telling him that the site had gone mysteriously blank just after midnight.
At first I thought it was hackers,” Mr. Hofman said. But within hours a notice went up on the site saying that its domain name had been seized by the United...
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Marketing vs Legal - The Record Labels' Internal... →
moearora:
Great post by super-blogger, Eskay.
Interesting read, might just have to write about it.
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EMI No More? And Other Recent Developments in...
Major label Electrical and Musical Industries (EMI) has been going through it. Recently, a lawsuit found that EMI illegally distributed their label’s music via Rapidshare as part of a viral marketing effort. Apparently, Mp3Tunes owner Michael Robertson uncovered some “secret” emails that put the British label in a compromising position. EMI has been in...
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