Editorials

The Death and Rebirth of Web Radio

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Web Radio, often called webcasting, is likely going to die. This isn’t necessarily news for indie musicians at this point, as we lost out on it years ago due to overregulation. There’s a reason why you don’t hear indies talking about webcasting much. Most webcasters nowadays are terrestrial radio stations that are simulcasting their feed […]

What We Want To Know About the EMI/iTunes Deal…

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

EMI has decided to be the first major label to release their music DRM free from iTunes. What we want to know is: When can WE as an indie band sell our own music DRM-free on iTunes?
Our feelings about DRM are spelled out nicely here. We only put our music on sites that have DRM […]

APIG Finally Says What It Thinks Of DRM

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

We’re not talking about a barnyard animal, here, we’re talking about the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group in the UK. Beatnik Turtle is a US band, but the internet is international. On top of that, according to our sales figures, we sell a fair number of songs in iTunes-UK. So if […]

Righting a Digital Rights Wrong

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

Digital Rights Management (DRM) doesn’t only affect major label musicians, it now directly affects independent bands as well. By way of a short introduction here, DRM is a method by which it’s possible to use technologies to limit what people can do with music, video, or other works. Often, it affects […]

Academically My Dear

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

Based on our research for the Survival Guide, the Sony DRM incident captured our interest, and we’ve been spening a lot of time working on aspects of this. We also ended up writing about this in the guide, in the DRM section.
Searching on Sony DRM will catch up up on what […]