Paying For What?
by By Sephiroth
The best place to start is the beginning of online
music. Soon after porno files first crept online,
music soon followed. The forms of online illegal music
has taken many forms from midi files, wav files,
streaming files , and the infamous lil mp3. All of
these file types throughout the years have been a
target of the Recording [...]
Filesharing is a Thing of the Past
by Raj Singh, Submitted exclusively for Zeropaid.com
P2P filesharing is dead. That’s right, filesharing has been ruled as illegal and will be ended as soon as the DOJ finishes the paper work. So what now, well I guess the music downloading is getting old so how about some P2P games, or maybe some P2P [...]
For the love of music
by Wes Royer
Napster, Napster, Napster! The Morning Show and Good Morning America, Dateline and 60 Minutes, newsstands like TIME and Newsweek, dailies like the Washington Post and USA Today, small-town or college newspapers, the evening eyewitness news … every media outlet is now keeping you up to date with the Napster vs. RIAA battle. But [...]
MP3.com: What is an artist to do?
by Wes Royer
This week, independent musicians were dissed once more by the music industry, but this time by a one of their biggest allies: MP3.com. While many saw MP3.com as either a sellout or simply a collection of independent music junk or leftovers, the rest of us realized how easy it was for the open-minded [...]
Can Music Survive Without the Music Business?
by Sickbitch
As the 21st century opens, a new and exciting means of transferring information is blossoming. It is now possible to make, distribute and publicise high quality music at very little cost. Many of the services provided by the music business are no longer needed. More and more musicians have discovered a way to get [...]
Looking To See If we Are Doomed To Repeat Ourselves
by Jeffery Commaroto
In the early American Republic, there were two distinct visions of how best to govern the country. On one hand you had the Federalists, consisting of the first two presidents, George Washington and John Adams as well as figures like Alexander Hamilton. They were the party of business, of the national banking system [...]
Napster and the Middleman
by Jeffery Commaroto
It’s been an odd few months. It seems like one headline after another
since the latest round of court decisions regarding Napster have all
made bold statements about the end of file sharing and Napster itself,
it has yet to happen.
I believe there is a reason why this is so that can be stated in just
five [...]
Why Parenting is More Important Than Making Law
by Wes Royer
The Federal Trade Commission recently issued a report criticizing the music industry for supposedly continuing to market violent music to children, and the official Democratic Party censor, Lieberman, jumped on the bandwagon and announced plans to introduce legislation punishing record labels for marketing violence to children.
Well, I completely disagree with the FTC’s report [...]
Revenge of the file-sharing masses!
The diaspora of fileshare services is the feature article on Salon. They pointed to Zeropaid as a resource in the post-Napster world. “We work for the freedom of information, without a voice we stand silent. Without you, we have no voice.” – Jorge Read Here
Where Does Napster Stand Now?
Wired.com just a ran a little piece on where Napster stands at the moment after the new court ruling. Looks like Napster may be dead now, now there is something we haven’t heard before…. Read The Story
