May 23rd, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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Music industry body the RIAA sent its 20 millionth copyright takedown to Google this week, leading its EVP of anti-piracy initiatives Brad Buckles to write a doleful blog post on the failings of the current DMCA notice-and-takedown system. "We are using a bucket to deal with an ocean of illegal downloading. Under a controversial interpretation by search engines, takedown notices must be directed at specific links to specific sound recordings and do nothing to stop the same files from being reposted...

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Features

May 22nd, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

Urturn, the startup formerly known as Webdoc, has announced a $13.4m funding round and launched its official iPhone app. The funding comes from Balderton Capital and Debiopharm...

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April 29th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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Strange though it may seem, given our youthful good looks, Music Ally's fortnightly digital music report was already 61 issues down when Apple launched its iTunes music store...

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Podcast

May 21st, 2013 by Music Ally

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Eamonn Forde and Stuart Dredge return to their underwater podcasting lair to discuss the burning (legal notice: not actually burning) issues of the day.

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