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Recommended Reading: Tim Ferriss’s BitTorrent Experiment

12 April 2013

An interesting development in the BitTorrent/piracy debate.

Late last year 4 Hour Work Week author Tim Ferriss, with his latest book 4 Hour Chef, set out to see if he could circumvent the 6 big publishers and instead go it alone by partnering with Amazon and BitTorrent.

In this piece for ReadWrite.com journalist John Paul Titlow talks to Tim about the results of his experiment, which resulted in a BitTorrent to Amazon click-through rate of 880,000, and looks at the ‘Piracy Question’.

Read it here.

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MMF Managers Summit and AGM 2025 – Value, Investment and Validation

25/09/2025

Attracting a sell-out audience of 120 MMF members to London’s Amazing Grace, our 2025 Manager Summit put a spotlight on two inter-related areas: the value of music management and the fast-evolving ecosystem of alternative finance.

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Pulp & Jeannette Lee, Craig Logan and Soul II Soul to be honoured at 2025 AMAs

25/09/2025

The Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) and Music Managers Forum (MMF) are delighted to announce that Pulp and Rough Trade Management’s Jeannette Lee, hugely respected manager and music executive Craig Logan, and the legendary Soul II Soul will all be honoured at the 2025 Artist & Manager Awards.

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Music managers contribute value worth £714m to the wider UK music business

17/09/2025

The Music Managers Forum (MMF) has unveiled new independent research that, for the first time, calculates the economic value music managers bring to the UK music industry.

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The Music Managers Forum is devastated to hear of the death of John Glover.

11/09/2025

John was a founding member of the MMF, served as a board member and our Chair over two periods (between 1995 to 2004) and remained active as one of our Custodians.

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