Sunday, June 21, 2009

Music in the Time of File-Sharing

"If the digital revolution meant curbing such mad excesses, few would complain. But those Masters Of The Universe represented only a tiny fraction of the industry. At the other end of the food chain, NME journalists speak to up-and-coming musicians day-in day-out--and the impact of illegal downloading on them is stark and depressing. Simply put, being in a middle-level indie band with a record deal used to pay the bills. Now it doesn't."

Luke Lewis of the NME considers the state of the record industry ten years after the debut of Napster.

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