Join the pirates, or walk the plank (Part II)

Part 2 of Linden Farrer’s foray into the world of online music piracy and the download era…
The response of the industry as a whole has been two-fold, encompassing a kind of carrot and stick approach. On the one hand they have set up their own ‘pay as you download’ services, and on the other they [...]

Join the pirates, or walk the plank (Part I)

 
With the advent of Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ taking the world by storm, Linden Farrer investigates how internet downloads are being rapidly favoured by artists over CDs, and what it means for the music industry in this multi-part series.
Not so many years ago, people saved up for weeks so that they could buy the vinyl record [...]