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MTV: 2007 Borked the Music Industry

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-the-poetry-and-love-industries dept.

Sockatume writes "MTV thinks 2007 was the year the music industry broke, and provides a hefty pile of examples to justify it. Unsurprisingly, most of them revolve around the collapse of CD sales and the rise of digital distribution (authorised and otherwise). Be advised that many of the examples are the continuations or repercussions of old favourites (RIAA suits, the Sony rootkit fiasco)."

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  1. Re:The Kids Aren't Taking It by leamanc · · Score: 4, Informative

    I thought iTunes let you redownload stuff a second time when you reauthorized a new computer?

    No. No re-downloading at all. A semi-recent development (with iTunes 7.x and up, I believe) is that you can pull purchased music off on an iPod on to another computer. But there is no re-downloading, no matter how you lost your files.

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  2. Re:It's American by shish · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's alright, many of the /. readers today don't really know the term "Borked"

    Actually there are two meanings -- the political jargon (which you seem to be referring to), and the nerd jargon (which *does* make sense in this context); given that this is slashdot, I would think that the nerd version is the accepted standard.

    Or perhaps you're too young to remember the jargon file? :P

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  3. Re:The Kids Aren't Taking It by j.sanchez1 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm not sure if there is an easy way to rip bought music back off an iPod or not...

    Sharepod is what you are looking for.

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  4. Re:The Kids Aren't Taking It by Brigade · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know if it has changed, but about 2 years ago my computer's system drive took a nosedive (and the few iTunes Mp3s I actually bought went with it.)

    Just took a phone call, and they re-authorized re-downloading of my pre-purchased music. All it took was my account information (which didn't change) and about 10-15 minutes on the phone. I also seem to recall that that was my "one-time" that you can use in the instance of catastrophic loss in regards to iTunes. I personally loathe anything having to do with the Apple Philosophy, but their customer service was spot-on in this instance.