Sinéad's Lifestream » Breeders http://www.sineadcochrane.com This lifestream was once a blog. Articles about Technology, the Internet, and Cyberpsychology are available in the archive. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:41:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Myspace Isn’t So Good for Music Afterall http://www.sineadcochrane.com/2008/04/03/myspace-isnt-so-good-for-music-afterall/ http://www.sineadcochrane.com/2008/04/03/myspace-isnt-so-good-for-music-afterall/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:10:20 +0000 Sinéad http://www.sineadcochrane.com/2008/04/03/myspace-isnt-so-good-for-music-afterall/ Not only are music fans beginning to prefer Wikipedia over Myspace for finding out information about musicians, other fans are using the Myspace forums and blogs to post links to their illegally uploaded mp3s. There are numerous threads within the music forums on Myspace that contain active and unbroken links to full album downloads.

This is rather interesting, especially considering that just recently Universal Music, Sony-BMG and Warner Music signed a deal with Myspace to create “Myspace Music” where fans can listen to free streaming music (of their choice, of course), whilst being bombarded with advertisements. All this, in an attempt to retrieve revenue lost, from… illegal mp3 file sharing.

I found these forums searching for information on the upcoming Breeders album, Mountain Battles, set for release on the 7th of April, only to find a leaked copy fully available to download.

The question is – was the temptation to download it too much? Or did I simply click the “report abuse” button and quickly move on.

What do you think?



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