Looks like there's yet another round of lawsuits targeting The Pirate Bay: https://www.thelocal.se/10818/20080331/
Tag: Industry
Music Export Finland's latest newsletter is now online: https://musex.fi/mxf/news?articleId=153
According to a story on the AP wires, the Swedish government is going to start cracking down on file sharers by forcing ISPs to hand over records: https://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5juqBsPM7AXzVADrglo-YUbOGKvcQD8VD8BO80
Sweden-based web TV site Dayrobber has a three-part interview with the people behind The Pirate Bay posted for your viewing pleasure: https://www.dayrobber.com/
Also check out other areas of the site for potential subjects of interest, such as "The band" which, naturally, features interviews with various bands.
Excerpts from the Q108 edition of Finnish Music Quarterly are now available online: https://www.fmq.fi/issues.html
Music Export Norway is offering a pdf guide to help you decide what bands to see at SXSW: https://www.musicexportnorway.no/getfile.php/651520.817.ybcbxapefy/NorwayAtSXSW.pdf
Music Export Finland is putting on a huge series of events in Berlin in late April under the banner "Helsinki in Berlin". Details are still being confirmed, but they say there will be over 40 shows. Read more: https://musex.fi/mxf/events?type=musex;eventId=50
"The Swedish Model" is a new cooperative organization of seven of Sweden's best indie labels, working together in this brave new world. Read more: https://www.theswedishmodel.org/ (in Swedish)
English version available here.
The labels involved are Adrian Recordings, Flora & Fauna, Hybris, I Made This, Nomethod Records, Songs I Wish I Had Written and TenderVersion.
The Guardian Blog with a behind-the-scenes view of the Swedish pop music factory: https://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/02/sweden.html
Swedish management/booking agency Promopop has officially closed their doors: https://www.promopop.com/
The Local reports that Swedish performance rights organization STIM is coming out in support of an ISP tax as a way to circumvent illegal downloading: https://www.thelocal.se/9925/20080208/
MIC Norway reports that EB Games is set to acquire music retailer Free Record Shop and will be shifting their focus to gaming only: https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2008020510371398489356
Am I correct to understand that Dotshop, Sweden's leading distro/mailorder for adventurous music, has been trying to rally labels against illegal downloading? Even though a great majority of the labels they carry probably disagree with them? Is this true?
The IFPI has managed to coerce Danish ISP Tele2 to block access to The Pirate Bay: https://www.thelocal.se/9877/20080204/