Just found this great rebutal over at Techdirt about an interview between Chris Castle and Rick Cames about the problem of piracy in the music industry.

Mike Masnick once again gives us a LOAD of evidence for the future success of the music industry with a very elloquent and piercing style of writing. This guy is [...]

For a quick summary, Midem is a Music Convention held in Cannes, France and is gradually gathering a reputation for being proactive about the needs/requirements of the Music Industry as it embraces the digital age.
This particular Midem event has been very successful and exciting for us musicians as we are starting to see SERIOUS traction [...]

I found this article about a band that is using the internet to promote their music but not like everyone else is doing it -e.g. downloadable songs for free. They’re giving away their music for free, but on CD -postage and all with only a few tracks on it and some promo for the band.
I [...]