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How Pirates and Factory Workers Changed Music Forever (and Made Eminem’s Life Miserable)
Filmmaker Alex Stapleton and writer Stephen Witt discuss their new documentary How Music Got Free about the file-sharing era
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A New Podcast Shows How the Rise of Blogs Changed Hip-Hop Forever
The 10-part series 'The Blog Era' tells the story of hip-hop’s Internet revolution in the 2000s
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Jewel-Box Heroes: Why the CD Revival Is Finally Here
Compact discs never had the romance of vinyl or the convenience of MP3s. But they're still the ideal format for getting lost inside your music collection
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Metallica's Kirk Hammett on Napster: 'We Didn't Make a Difference'
Guitarist looks back on how the record industry changed since file-sharing reduced the value of compact discs
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Why Sony Is Launching a Hi-Res Streaming Service in Japan
Music-tech giant launches Mora Qualitas and eyes future U.S. and European markets
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Napster, Spotify and the Fall of the 'Middle-Class Musician'
An excerpt from Jonathan Taplin's 'Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy'
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Relive Napster's Glory Days in New Doc on 2000s
"It's no different than walking into a Tower Records and stealing a Metallica CD," Metallica's Lars Ulrich says in National Geographic doc 'The 2000s'
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Metallica Bringing Music Catalog to Spotify
Hear all nine albums, plus some live tracks, singles and covers
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Without Napster, Would Music Sales Have Boomed?
Currently engaged in legal proceedings against file sharing service LimeWire, record labels including Arista, Capitol and Warner are gearing up to fight unlawful music sharing in court.
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Metallica Offer Up Single Song Downloads at Live Music Site
For five years, Metallica's own LiveMetallica Website has offered up high-quality downloads of the band's concerts spanning from 1982 to their current World Magnetic tour. However, fans were only able to purchase concerts as a whole, as opposed to the a la carte song options popularized by iTunes. Perhaps the Rock and Roll Hall of […]
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