Would you steal a car!? If it was as easy as downloading a movie, yeah. There is a big difference between piracy and stealing. The biggest problem with piracy is how easy it is to do it. There is also relatively low risk of getting caught due to the high number of individuals who do [...]
College Being has just gone over the 200-article barrier. This will be the 202nd article on our site. I hope you guys have been enjoying all the totally awesome things we write about. Here are ten of our top articles thus far (Note: Our About Page, Home Page, and RSS are the most viewed): 10. [...]
As Chris just reported, the Nine Inch Nails album released independently via download has garnered $750,000 so far. A similarly released Radiohead album made about $10 million recently. The recording industry is unsure what to do, but thus far has mostly seemed to ignore these successes and continued to focus on music piracy, which they [...]
Recently, we announced Nine Inch Nails released their newest album for free. Since then and solely due to our endorsement, Trent Reznor, who released the album without any major record label supporting him, has made $750,000 (it will probably be a million in no time… trust us). How does someone who releases an album for [...]
I am concerned not many people know what DRM is. DRM really stands for digital rights management (not delirious RIAA material) and it is a way for people to control how and when you can listen to music you have already bought the rights to. The problem with DRM is that it only hurts people [...]