Tag: music industry

  • Hannah’s album, and why Bandcamp is awesome

    Hannah, my sister, set up shop on Bandcamp this afternoon in order to sell her album, Pre-Apocalyptic Love Song. I set up hannahwerdmuller.com for her and put together a simple header graphic based on something she drew a while ago – and in the process, totally fell in love with Bandcamp. This is how a […]

  • File sharing and digital business models

    There were some great comments on this weekend’s guest post for Media140 about Lily Allen and sharing, so I’ve written a follow-up, exploring some ideas (and the arguments left in the comments) in a little more detail. However, after at least a decade without tangible participation from the media industries, illegal file sharing has become […]

  • Lily Allen, file sharing and music on the Internet

    I’ve written a guest post over at the Media140 blog about Lily Allen’s file sharing stance, and the wider place of traditional record labels in the Internet economy. If the Internet has brought us anything, it is individuality. We have the ability to publish, share and consume the media of our choice, based upon our […]