An interesting take on digital media. Picked it up with out realizing it was written by one half of the excellent podcast http://www.soundopinions.org/. This is more from the artist side. Not quite a how to manual as much as this how some artist has used the Internet. Author Greg Kot doesn't really take strong moral positions although he does seem to think of it as downloading as "stealing" and he definitely comes across as the critic who knows more than you, at least musical taste-wise. But in an industry searching for answers, he's looking too and doesn't claim to have figured it out. Really a collection of stories of how individual artist are looking at/using the Interent and how the business is trying to cope. It was interesting to get the back stories, say Metallica's view on the Napster incident, looking back. All in all, an interesting read.
buy at amazon
Buy at half.com
Of course, I got it from the library and you can try there, too. Does that count as stealing? Or just irony?
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