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Album leakage

Published on Sep 6th, 2005

comic strip | panel 1 - BART: The album leaked!? Who leaked it!? Sue 'em, Joel! Squeeze 'em 'til it hurts!; JOEL: Once the files are out there, sir, it's nearly impossible to tell who leaked them. | comic strip | panel 2 - BART: Then who's downloading it? Sue them! Drain the bastards dry!!; JOEL: Eh, with these newer P2P file sharing networks... that's pretty hard to track. | comic strip | panel 3 - BART: Well, God damn it, Joel.... | comic strip | panel 4 - BART: Can we just sue the Internet in general then?; JOEL: Legal's looking into it, sir.... |

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Tags: Bart the evil executive, downloading, file sharing, Hancock Records the corporate music label, Internet, Joel the naive A&R guy, mp3

Download nightmares

Published on Oct 31st, 2005

comic strip | panel 1 - BRETT: Come on! It's just one album!; GREG: Don't tempt me with illegal mp3s, man! I'll stick to iTunes. A guilt-free life is worth $1 a song. | comic strip | panel 2 - BRETT: Dude, the record companies don't pay any production or distribution costs with iTunes, and they charge the same as CDs. It's a ripoff. | comic strip | panel 3 - GREG: Look, I used Napster in college! I won't go back to that life! I would have nightmares about musicians breaking into my apartment and stealing stuff.... | comic strip | panel 4 - GREG: Liz Phair would hold me down while P.J. Harvey ripped my socks off my feet. It was... arousing. But also scary.; BRETT: You're a toolbox, Greg. |

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Tags: Brett the hipster, downloading, Greg the mindless fan, iTunes, Liz Phair, mp3, music consumers, PJ Harvey

allofmp3.com

Published on Nov 1st, 2005

comic strip | panel 1 - GREG: I'm having an iTunes crisis of faith, Brett. I just found this Russian site, allofmp3.com. It's like $2/album. | comic strip | panel 2 - BRETT: Hmm. Think it's legal?; GREG: W-well, a portion of what I pay goes to the artist. So I'm not really; doing anything wrong... right? | comic strip | panel 3 - BRETT: Show me where you read that.; GREG: Here on this blog. Next to that porn ad and the "Top 10 Warez Linkz" thing. | comic strip | panel 4 - BRETT: Mmm. Well, I'll leave you to your rationalizing.; GREG: Bottom line, i-it's not MY fault it's not shut down... right? RIGHT?! |

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manymanymp3.com

Published on Nov 2nd, 2005

comic strip | panel 1 - BRETT: Still getting your mp3s from that semi-legal allofmp3.com?; GREG: No, now I found manymanymp3.com. You can get any music you want. You pay nothing. | comic strip | panel 2 - BRETT: Sounds even shadier. Thought you were all concerned with artists getting their fair share.; GREG: Well, you agree to pay later, Brett. If, you know, you like the music. | comic strip | panel 3 - GREG: And if... if the band specifically asks you for the money. | comic strip | panel 4 - GREG: It's... it's teaching musicians to be assertive, really! Th-that's what it's doing!; BRETT: Ever heard the term "slippery slope", Greg? |

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yourfriendfred.com

Published on Nov 3rd, 2005

comic strip | panel 1 - GREG: I found a new download site: YourFriendFred.com ... This guy Fred sends you whatever mp3s you want. B-but it's legal! See if you run into Fred ever, you buy him a beer. | comic strip | panel 2 - GREG: A-and Fred promises that a PORTION of that beer goes directly to the artist. S-so everyone wins, see? H-ha ha! R-right, Brett? | comic strip | panel 3 - BRETT: Yeah, idiot, if the artist WANTS to be paid in beer, and if "Fred" HAPPENS to run into them in the next 20 minutes.; GREG: It's POSSIBLE. | comic strip | panel 4 - BRETT: Oh SURE! "Why, look who's here at Dempsey's! Kanye West! And the rotting corpse of Johnny Cash!"; GREG: I mean, I ALWAYS see that Fiery Furnaces dude at the bodega.... |

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totalabovemp3.com

Published on Nov 4th, 2005

comic strip | panel 1 - GREG: OK, Brett, I found the music site for me: totalabovemp3.com. You can download anything you want. Anything. | comic strip | panel 2 - GREG: There's links to donate to each artist, but if you don't want to... it's totally free.; BRETT: And you don't feel guilty like with the other illegal sites? | comic strip | panel 3 - GREG: Nope. Because next to every song, they list the annual salary of both the musician and the president of the record label. | comic strip | panel 4 - GREG: The truth has set me free, David Geffen!; BRETT: Neat, you can also donate to a fund that raises money to egg the offices of the RIAA.... |