![Record Labels: Change or Die [Music]](http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_record-crush2.jpg)
It's a lousy time to be a record label. Profits are tanking, bands are angry—OK Go just ditched EMI—and YouTube and BitTorrent changed the game. Still, some labels are transforming themselves to help musicians in the digital age.
"Change or Die" may sound like hyperbole, or an idle threat, but for the music business, the...
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Credit to Ring of Honor, the professional wrestling promotion, for embracing the Internet era. The promotion has launched a new download store that makes its extensive video library only a $10 download away. A legal download, mind you. It's all a fan could ever ask for.
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Tags: BitTorrent, dvds, Headline, High Profile, Mail, Pay Per View, People, Plastic Disc, Professional Wrestling, Punk, Quite Some Time, Ring Of Honor, Seeder, Servers, Sports, Star Rating, Swarm, Torrent, Utorrent, Video Library, Video Piracy, Wrestling Observer Newsletter, wwe
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Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox are busy funding some new, super-duper anti-BitTorrent technology called BitStalker. The difference between it and other anti-BitTorrent systems is that it's said to be accurate. That's a huge development, actually.
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There's a bit of a controversy in the BitTorrent community, friends. Two rather prominent, so-called private trackers, whose names I will not mention "just because," have announced that they will be banning Vuze, the former Azureus, one of the elder statesmen of the BitTorrent protocol. Say what you will about the direction Vuze took—I...
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Tags: Azureus, BitTorrent, Bittorrent Client, Bittorrent Sites, Community Friends, Elder Statesmen, Hassle, Headline, Linux Users, Mac Users, Mpaa, Private Sites, Quiet World, Riaa, Simplicity, Source Application, Tampered, Torrent Client, Trackers, Utorrent, Valid Complaint, Vuze, Windows Users
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![The Secret World of Private BitTorrent Trackers [Piracy]](http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_transmission.jpg)
Somewhere on the web is the ultimate music site. It has virtually every album, EP and single ever released in a variety of high-quality formats with insanely fast download speeds. You're probably not allowed in.
The Pirate Bay is dead. So is TorrentSpy, MiniNova, Suprnova and many other public BitTorrent trackers. But the most savvy...
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Tags: BitTorrent, Bittorrent Tracker, BitTorrent Trackers, bt, Comic Books, Current User, Development Communities, Download Speeds, downloads, E Books, Enforcers, feature, Ifpi, modo, Movie Rips, Music Site, oink, Piracy, Pirate Bay, Private bittorrent trackers, Private Sites, Quality Formats, Riaa, Sophisticated Feature, Suprnova, Time T, top, Torrents, Ultimate Music
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