Setlist

This week’s episode of Setlist is another marking CMU’s 20th birthday, the sixteenth in a series of special editions reviewing the 20 biggest stories CMU has covered over the last two decades. This time we go all the way back to the dramatic takedown of MegaUpload in 2012 and run through everything that has happened in the subsequent seven years. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

This week’s episode of Setlist is another marking CMU’s 20th birthday, the fifteenth in a series of special editions reviewing the 20 biggest stories CMU has covered over the last two decades. This time we look at the various strategies the music industry has employed to combat online piracy during that time, and how it ultimately settled on web-blocking as a preferred method. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last seven days, including the £5 million lawsuit over Ticketmaster’s data breach, the UK government’s new proposals for tackling online harms and what it means for music piracy (spoiler: nothing), and Donald Trump’s clash with Batman. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last seven days, including the latest IFPI stats which confirmed that the record industry had a fourth year of growth in 2018, iHeart's plan to come out of bankruptcy and straight into an IPO, and the new song-theft lawsuit against The Weeknd. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.

This week’s episode of Setlist is another marking CMU’s 20th birthday, the fourteenth in a series of special editions reviewing the 20 biggest stories CMU has covered over the last two decades. This time we look at the record industry's love affair with digital rights management technology in the early years of the digital music revolution and how DRM hindered the growth of legit download stores, but ultimately made the streaming proposition more attractive. Setlist is sponsored by 7digital.