Valuing Content: Nine Inch Nails

Finding this video so quickly after yesterday’s post proves some­thing. More on making money from media content, even though people can get it for free. Mike Masnick of Techdirt describes the ways Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails have created a prof­it­able business from their music, after they sacked their record

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Social Media Done Well: One Frame at a Time

You may well have seen this already, but there’s a lovely inter­active campaign being carried out by Dutch indie band C-​​​​Mon & Kypski. (Note: never heard of them; don’t care; bring back The Smiths).

The idea is that fans can col­lab­orate with the band in their latest music video. You use your webcam to

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Quite Liking Jango Jukebox

Hope it doesn’t go the way of Pandora UK

www.Jango.com

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Pirate Nation: Two-​​Thirds Share Music

Illegal sharing and down­loading con­tinues to have a major appeal for music con­sumers, in spite of several high-​​​​profile lit­ig­a­tion cam­paigns. Two thirds share music and over a third of us have used illegal download networks like Kazaa, Limewire and Soulseek. That’s according to a new report from Entertainment Media Research. The sample com­prised over 3,000 music

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