By giving music fans free, on-demand streaming access to their favorite tunes, imeem and other media social networks are pursuing a path that could go some way toward repairing the recording industry's strained relationship with the music-consuming public.
It, too, doesn't have the rights from many mainstream publishing houses, but while BitLit is trying to work with publishers, Amazon's relationship with the industry is pretty strained right now.
Yet the release of the album does highlight the music industry's strange, and strained, relationship with the mixtape as a product and a potential promotional device.
Legions of Washington lawyers are preparing arguments and briefs critical to the burgeoning campaign industry, not to mention the strained health of the nation's politics.
Evgeny Lebedev and his lieutenants have not yet made a final decision, but the economics of continuing to print the newspaper have become increasingly strained as copy sales decline across the industry while ever more readers switch to digital.
The mining company and its peers are wrestling with rock-bottom commodity prices that have forced the industry to take drastic steps to mend strained balance sheets.
"As a result of the president's policies, energy prices are higher, there are fewer jobs, our industries are less competitive, and family budgets are further strained," said Ed Gillespie, a campaign senior adviser, on the conference call.
Rather than use our strained national resources to prop up dead and dying companies and industries, the best thing a government can do is help its citizens identify and prepare for the future.
A statement from Americans United for Life called the report "an abortion industry propaganda piece short on data and long on strained conclusions".
Shares of Taiwan-based companies suffered from the island's changing political scene, a strained relationship with China and the worldwide downturn in the computer industry.
