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Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Is Spotify good or bad?

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Well that depends on who you ask. Certainly, if you look at this new working paper from Economists Aguiar and Waldfogel, released today,...
Thursday, 22 October 2015

Revisiting the carrot versus the stick, from a global perspective

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In this new report from the team at TechDirt, including Mike Masnick (who features frequently on this blog), the recurring question over w...
Thursday, 8 October 2015

Movie Piracy vs. Music Piracy

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Much has been said on this blog about the difference between music and movie piracy. Here's another entry, bringing us bang up to date....
Friday, 25 September 2015

Recommended book: The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music

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Love you, Sage. Check out this new text, The Sage Handbook of Popular Music , which you ought to be able to obtain from your finest local...
Thursday, 3 September 2015

Why young people engage in music piracy

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Bonneville-Roussy et al. (2013), drawing from a huge dataset involving over 250,000 participants, find that the degree of importance attrib...
Sunday, 23 August 2015

Why Virgin Radio's celebrated new anti-piracy strategy will not work

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I recently stumbled upon an interesting new anti-piracy campaign from Virgin Radio which you can read more about here . Essentially, it p...
Friday, 21 August 2015

Recommended book: How Music Works

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It has been discussed many times on this blog over the years, and now I can announce a formal book review of David Byrne's 'How Mus...