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Location: Arts Centre Melbourne , Australia Steve Albini is one of the most respected figures in the international independent music scene. A respected artist, music journalist, industry commentator and recording engineer, Steve is a champion of theindependent music business. He is regularly quoted by music media for his views on topics ranging from piracy to crowd funding to royalties and recording. As an Engineer, his unique philosophical and technical approach is affirming for independent artists – his preference for analogue over digital recording and a “punk-rock” attitude has ensured him a lasting sonic signature across the industry. He has more than1500 albums, working withsome of the world’s most seminal and pioneering rock acts such as Nirvana, the Pixies , PJ Harvey and The Stooges . Steve Albini will deliver the keynote address at Face The Music 2014. Presenter: Steve Albini – USA (Engineer, Electrical Audio ) www.facethemusic.com.au Presented by Face The M...

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Matthew David ( Brunel University ) discusses the technical, legal and cultural strategies by the recording industry to persuade people that file-sharing is impossible, immoral, un-cool or dangerous, and their failure , in a lecture given at the Oxford Internet Institute , University of Oxford . The period from the advent of the compact disc in 1982 to the first significant file-sharing system in 1999 saw the greatest period of profitability in the history of recorded music . The decade since 1999 has seen an equally radical collapse. What seems obvious in hindsight was largely ignored at the time. The very efficiency of digital reproduction and distribution promised or threatened to eliminate scarcity, and hence threaten the possibility of market exchange in informational goods. Markets require regulation and a market in informational goods requires the suspension of the free circulation of information. This has been attempted by technical means (surveillance and encryption...