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Tune Recycler, a new effort from the guys who bring you Downhill Battle, seeks to help independent artists by capitalizing on all of the unused downloads from Pepsi’s 100 million song givaway at Apple’s iTunes Music Store. In general, they have been critical of iTunes, particularly in that only pennies on the dollar go to [...]

P2PNet made a great find in noticing that buried in a long list at HotJobs’s “security/enforcement” section was this brilliant posting by the Motion Picture Association of America. The MPPA is looking to fill the $75K position in Encino, CA with someone that can “oversee Internet anti-piracy operations worldwide,” “examine new piracy methods & protocols,” [...]

Channel 9 News is reporting that the people of San Antonio, TX took to the streets in protest today as the Federal Communications Commission came to town. The demonstrators carried signs and shouted slogans hoping to raise awareness of how Clear Channel Communication and other media conglomerates have a near monopoly hold on television and [...]

You may have noticed the new advertisements running along the right hand column of the Breakdown homepage. If not, please take a look. No, further down. Scroll a little. There you go. Rather sharp, right? After watching writers such as Peter Rojas, Jen Chung, and Lester Bangs grow fat off of lucrative sponsorship deals, the [...]

Based on the information in their first Online Music Report of 2004, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is happy with the progress made thus far in educating the public on the illegality of breaking copyright law. From their (motivationally suspect but well documented) surveys, “an average of 66% of people across [Germany, France, [...]