For those of you who manage to come by this blog but don’t like milling through my Twitter, I’m doing a recap of some things I’ve found interesting in the past couple of weeks pertaining to file sharing and how it’s affecting the music industry.

This is essentially a follow up on an assignment I gave to my Hunter College Intro to Music students to read and comment on a reading by John Oswald called  ‘Bettered by the Borrower: the Ethics of Musical Debt’ in Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music.  Here are some interesting reads (and viewings) about the current state of digital media and file sharing as it pertains to music.  It seems we’re at a serious crossroads for the future of culture, the values we ascribe to, and how we approach and share thought (and music).  Enjoy (and discuss!).

Here is a fantastic lecture on file sharing (BitTorrent, Napster, LimeWire, etc.) and their implications.  “Share this lecture!”

Here is an attempt to explain what’s happening to the music industry in 2009 (this too).  Does this mean the death of the rock s

How the band Nine Inch Nails is coping with a crumbling record label industry. Says Reznor: “As an artist, you are now the marketer.”  Does the quality of art suffer because of it?  Here is a comparison of NIN and Radiohead’s strategies for embracing the web.

Here we see how web traffic declines as Sweden enforces laws against piracy.

This is essentially the same post I have put up on our class Blackboard site, but I like the idea of making this accessible beyond a firewall.