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Thought piracy was dead? Not for television, and not for Netflix. Here’s one downside to paid-only platforms: rampant piracy. That’s right: even at a $9.99 monthly rate, people will heavily torrent. That was the case for Game of Thrones, and it’s the case of popular Netflix series like Narcos. The smash series, which chronicles the […]
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A New York based musician has asked a federal court to destroy all recordings of Chance the Rapper’s song, ‘Windows.’ In 2012, independent artist Chance the Rapper released his debut mixtape, 10 Day, for free. Now, the famous rapper faces a copyright infringement suit over a song on the album. New York based jazz musician […]
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Exposure: 77 Hours to Create an Album Over just three days, we’re attempting to concept, write, record, and produce an album of ten songs. Entering the studio with nothing prepared. Testing the theory that creations are at their most powerful the moment they’re released.This feed will run uninterrupted for 77 hours. So if there isn’t […]
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Spotify looks to solidify their global lead with an upcoming launch in South Africa. In documents leaked to Digital Music News last Friday, Spotify now has 150 million active users worldwide. While Apple Music rapidly moves towards 30 million subscribers, the Swedish platform will soon cross the 65 million mark. Around the world, users can […]
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What’s one thing that sucks about YouTube? Portability. So Facebook just fixed that. For all of its serious flaws, YouTube still dominates music listening. And yes, a massive percentage of music video ‘viewers’ aren’t ‘watching’ anything. But they’re also not listening on-the-go. Because portability sucks on YouTube. Which might explain why about 10,000 ‘YouTube to […]
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Fifty years ago, Newark was a city in ruins. Now, as the city thrives, the Grammys will lend a helping hand with the opening of an interactive museum. It’s been a dark few decades for Newark, New Jersey. In 1967, Newark police brutally beat a black man to death, and it was all downhill from […]
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SoundCloud may need more than its $170 million ’emergency funding’ pile to survive. According to financial projections and filings shared with Digital Music News, this is gonna take awhile. Should they have let it failed? That’s a question now haunting longtime SoundCloud investors. On August 11th, SoundCloud’s battered financiers made a gamble to keep the […]
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Mighty is a crafty solution for listening to Spotify without a phone. But is Mighty skipping out on artist royalties? It’s a hot idea with impeccable timing. And it’s a beautifully simple concept. Basically, Mighty is like an iPod shuffle, but for Spotify users. So instead of jogging to your stored music collection with your […]
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After a performance in Spokane, police have arrested members of veteran death metal band Decapitated. Yet, why haven’t authorities released key information surrounding the fan’s kidnapping claims? Earlier today, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s officers took four adult males into custody. Michal Mikolaj, 27, Waclaw Kieltyka, 35, Rafal Piotrowski, 31, and Hubert Wiecek, 30, were arrested […]
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Spotify’s web player stops working on Safari a day before the iPhone 8 launch event. Coincidence? Last week, MusicWatch published a report showing that 1 in 5 iOS users stream their favorite music through Apple Music. With over one billion iOS devices sold worldwide, that number is no laughing matter. Two weeks ago, Fluent Co. […]
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