I want you to picture a box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.  Blue box.  Yellow typeface.  Extreme closeup of something only slightly resembling food at the bottom…  Got it?  Good.  The next time you go into the supermarket, look at all the generic brands.  Same blue box.  Yellow typeface, etc.  Blatant emulation.  If you’re having [...]

Crumbling industry aside, people are still making music, and there are a lot of folks trying to pick up the slack on the business side of things to help make the transition into the professional music world slightly less wretched. Here’s a bit of a primer on a few music services that are attractive to both artists and fans alike.

The RIAA cites the number of dollars lost to the illegal online music trade to be somewhere around $4.2 billion per year. Their calculations are presumably based on the inflated Internet rate of a dollar a song, so we can dismiss at least some of the bulk in the figure right there, but it’s [...]

If you look at the various mediums that are able to be distributed digitally, you will find a seemingly uncountable number of instances where the materials in question have been shared or represented in a way that is not in sync with the laws of the world’s governments. It is important that this is [...]