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No comments? Why moderation?

We have closed our comments yesterday due to a quickly deteriorating signal-to-noise ratio. Unfortunately, our warning was ignored by the intended recipients. Our comments facility was never intended to be a public forum. It is simply a quick and convenient way to contact us, to provide feedback to the stories or ask relevant questions. Consequently, […]

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This is what tomorrow holds

Recently we at The Highway Star were contacted by a person who was concerned that one of the comments on our site contains an untrue statement and asked if the comment in question could be removed. We refused to remove it, for a variety of good reasons, and offered our help in getting in touch […]

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Piracy as a marketing tool

My previous copyright rant sparked a lively discussion with Mike Eriksson who argued Personally, I still buy my music and my DVD´s and I do not like all this downloading. If somebody, like this author, wants to give his stuff away for free, good. The problem arises when somebody wants his or hers work protected… […]

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That copyright thing

We’ve discussed previously the state of music business and where it’s going. Music is not alone in this state of transition. Every form of art is. In preface to his recent novel Little Brother, Cory Doctorow writes: If I could loan out my physical books without giving up possession of them, I would. The fact […]

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The way to go

At the end of the last year we have started discussion about the state of the music business where a lot of people lamented demise of the physical medium as a primary way of distributing the music. Nine Inch Nails have recently released their new album Ghosts I-IV which success may indicate the way of […]

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