Digital Rights Management, that nasty bit of coding in an audio file that limits where and how you can play and copy the file may be on it's last legs.  Amazon and Wal-Mart have come out against it. What else can the big 4 do but drop it?

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EMI is talking about pulling funding from the RIAA. Maybe paying a lot of money to alienate your customers wasn't such a good idea.  Leave your comments here about how you feel about the RIAA.

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Here's an interesting press release that shows that 38% of the folks who downloaded the
new Radiohead album actually paid money for it.  It's all very interesting but Radiohead already has an established audience.  What happens when your neighborhood garage band tries to make it big using this model?

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Saul Williams new album "The Inevitable Rise and Liberty of Niggy Tardust" is being released on line.  You can get lower res MP3s for free and the audiophiles among you can pay $5 for the high res stuff. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails fame produced the album.  Don't be surprised if the next NIN album is released in a similar fashion.

There's some legal rumbling up in Oregon.  The bottom line is the University of Oregon is giving the RIAA the finger because they are asking for identities of student downloaders.
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EMI is accused of allowing illegal downloads.  Do you think they will alert their jack-booted RIAA friends to their indiscretions?  Yeah, me neither.

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Universal Music Group has forced YouTube to take down a home video clip of a baby dancing to a Prince song.
Will this madness ever end?
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Comcast has admitted to throttling traffic for BitTorrent and other applications.  If you folks sharing music and video feel that "the man" is holding you back, well he might just be.

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It seems some Brazilians have learned to use music pirates as a way to promote themselves.
We here at Corporate Country Sucks would never advocate piracy but it does bring up some interesting questions about the shift in business models for the music industry.

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