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Downhill Battle is a non-profit organization based in Worcester, Massachusetts (Their wabsite is currently down, as of OCT. 26 at 8:25 PM). It launched in August 2003 and argues that the four major recording labels have an oligopoly that is bad for both musicians and music culture. They believe that there is an opportunity to change that. A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ...
Nickname: The Heart of the Commonwealth, The City of the Seven Hills, Wormtown, Woo-town, Wortown (war-town), The City of Diners, Paris of the Eighties Settled: 1673 – Incorporated: 1684 Zip Code(s): 01608 – Area Code(s): 508 / 774 Official website: http://www. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The global music market was estimated at $30-40 billion in 2004 (*). Total annual unit sales (CDs, music video, mp3) in 2004 were 3 billion. ...
A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ...
An oligopoly is a market form in which a market is dominated by a small number of sellers (oligopolists). ...
They also believe that filesharing can strengthen the role of independent record labels in the music industry, and they help produce software that helps independent artists and journalists reach a wider audience. The group supports what they call "participatory culture" where everyone is a part of creating and sharing art and music. File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. ...
An independent record label is variously described as a record label operating without the funding (or outside the organizations) of the major record labels, and/or a label that subscribes to indie philosophies such as DIY and anti-corporate art. ...
They are also known for their projects such as Grey Tuesday, Banned Music, Peer-to-Peer Legal Defense Fund, and more. Grey Tuesday was a day of coordinated electronic civil disobedience on February 24, 2004. ...
The Downhill Battle team also founded the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF), which is building an independent, internet video platform. PCF also has a set of Participatory Politics projects, including a politics news site and a messageboard service. The Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF) is a non-profit organization founded in February 2005 and based in Worcester, MA. The organizations mission is to enable and support independent, non-corporate creativity and political engagement. The first project that PCF has undertaken is a free / open-source internet TV platform...
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The BitTorrent logo BitTorrent is the name of a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol, and is the name of a free software implementation of that protocol. ...
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