Off-label use

genres are birthed and begin to gain popularity daily, most without any trace of a record label to their names. The term “Indie used to mean without a record deal, all by themselves”, but was stolen by record companies and turned into a synonym for alternative. However, thanks to the internet, the common musician can begin to reclaim the “Indie” term. The driving force behind this push for abandoning record labels is the internet’s universal…

entrepreneur. His parents were not musically talented, so he was not blessed with musical skills from the start. He really did everything by himself from the very beginning by selling drugs to pay for a studio, basic necessities, teaching himself how to use his studio equipment, going outside and market himself to the city of Los Angeles, to networking with local DJ’s to play his records that he made from his house. “Networking is a socioeconomic business activity by which businesspeople and…

Answer to the question- Now i really understand tzedakah is and how it affects people It’s about being kind towards people I now know that charity/tzedakah is not just about money What it can do to help someone It can save someone's life It brings joy to people Changes the way that I look at things In Masoret this unit, we talked about Tzedakah and what it really is. Before we started this unit I just thought that Tzedakah was giving back to the community. I also…

Record companies are taking different approaches at stopping it. A few have gone as far as tracking down sources of pirating and suing the people they found to be behind it. For example, “The Recording Industry Association of America this month fired off 569 "pre-litigation settlement letters" to college students whom had been suspected of pirating music”(Rampell, 2008). These record companies believe that downloading music from the internet affects their music sales negatively because they…

Stealing, blackmail, piracy - it isn’t illegal unless you get caught, right? I mean, Besides the obvious issues of the law and morality, what keeps everyone from doing things this way? Were I to want the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album, I could just use Soulseek and get…

an actually genre on the grounds that a mixer is using other people’s work. Mixing is actually a widely practices art form of music that in certain circles is in fact recognized as an art form. If much of the public stays close-minded on those who use other people’s music to create a new sound and only consider them to be plagiarists, this genre of music won’t be able to go anywhere. If mixers they are able to create a new sound using sounds from different sources that, even if still be…

Songs for Free In a song by Chance the rapper called blessings he speaks of himself and the ways that he has been blessed in the music industry. He is a very revolutionary artist and, considers himself “anti-label” meaning he produces records and distributes all of his own music while also releasing it for free. When broken down a lot of the lyrics in his song can be interpreted to mean different things. A question one could ask is what kind of message is Chance trying give in this song? Is…

combination of the words “Spot” and “Identify”. Created in Sweden, the service has a free option. As defined by Techopedia, “Spotify is a new digital music service that enables users to remotely source millions of different songs on various record labels from a laptop, smartphone or other device”. In general, Spotify allows the user to search through 15 million tracks of music, create playlists, or listen to playlists created by other people. With over 40-millon active users, Spotify grows more…

Apple Music Apple is a revolutionary company in digital music and has changed the structure of recorded music market with iPod and iTunes in the 2000s. Apple’s iPod and iTunes have led digital music market as the leading provider of MP3 players. However, Apple is now a newcomer in streaming music market with Apple Music, launched in 2015. Since 2005, global digital music revenues have been growing so fast (Exhibit 1-a Global Recorded Music Industry Revenues 2005-2015). Especially, streaming…

control the number of installations of the games they published. The issue was that if the buyer encountered a problem with his/her system and had to re-install the game, it was simply impossible despite being totally legal to do so. Purchasers had to use cracked versions of the game in order to install the games. After years of customer complaints, Ubisoft finally admitted that DRM is a very ineffective method of stopping PC game piracy. They also admitted that they believe any of their games…