Save the Endangered Gizmo!
To highlight the danger of legislation killing innovation, the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) had brought out a list of Extinct and Endangered Gizmos. Extinct are such groundbreakers as Napster, with technical advances such as Firewire drives and virtual soundcards on the Endangered list. The hot tip for digital music this year is mobile music, with more tracks being downloaded to mobiles in some parts of Asia than to PCs. It opens up a new piracy medium but also some exciting possibilities.

As reported by Digital Music News, at the recent Midwestern conference Martin Mills (Beggars Group Chairman) called for the music industry to embrace P2P. He pointed out that the fixation with a price per unit model means that it is ignoring alternative income streams. The majors are finally climbing off the fence, and it's obvious that legal downloads are here to stay. Dance giants Tidy Trax have started releasing some tracks as MP3 only and Nukleuz have just signed a deal with audiojelly.

Now the phrase 'I got it off the net' can be said in public, and it's time for all those people who said they'd support legal downloads to put their hands in their pocketses. Good places to buy New Zealand music online are Amplifier and of course my dance download label TMet Recordings. Amplifier are also now streaming some cool Kiwi music videos.