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Commentary
on June 6, 2010
From as early as the late '90s social commentators and those in the music industry were already saying that the future of the music industry lay in mp3s. It might surprise some of our younger musi...
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Commentary
, Information about
on October 22, 2009
Hearing Aids have been notorious for years with causing various issues at different frequencies for users. They are miracles for the many people that can not hear without them but they haven't bee...
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Commentary
on September 29, 2009
After a long long time of users being disgruntled at the lack of streaming music from the Warner Brothers on youtube, an agreement has been reached with the label allowing the videos to be re-added to...
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on January 21, 2009
Despite being a positive week for the great US of A overall, with new president Barak Obama entering office, Wall street is showing very little confidence in the economy, with many shares still losi...
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on July 20, 2008
Rhapsody, a service touted as a DRM free digital download service, has not quite lived up to expectations, as it has been discovered that a significant amount of the available music is indeed not in t...
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on July 9, 2008
Digital music is not even the future anymore; digital music is now, people use mp3 players, their computers, mobile phones, all sorts to listen ot music, and it is just getting bigger and bigger, and ...
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on April 14, 2008
Chances are, if you've got an MP3 player of some sort, you've considered what it would take for the music from the MP3 player to be played through your speakers. To solve that problem for myse...
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Business
, Commentary
, Retail
on September 3, 2007
The NPD Group, in conjunction with NARM, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, said that consumer rejection of the CD format and use of digital files, iPods, and P2P are not the reason ...
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Business
, Commentary
, Society & Public Policy
on August 29, 2007
In Producers howl over sound cut out by MP3 compression, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer writes about anguished record producers. MP3 files lose 90% of data stores in the Recording studio.
The mass co...
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Business
, Commentary
, Industry
on August 14, 2007
Rolling Stone published an in-depth feature on The Record Industry's Decline. Now that a new generation of executives is driving the record companies, they can admit what everyone else has known f...
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, International
, RIAA, IFPI
on August 10, 2007
IFPI, the international version of RIAA, released "Ten Inconvenient Truths About File Swapping". It's bizarre propaganda that conveniently confuses physical piracy with digital downloads...
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Apple
, Commentary
, Marketing
, Retail
on August 9, 2007
Ticketmaster has a new deal. Buy a ticket for a show before Labor Day and get a free song on iTunes. That's right - pay $30 more than you used to for a concert ticket and ticketing fees and they g...
Read more of Ticketmaster + iTunes = Are You Kidding Me?
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Business
, Commentary
, Marketing
on July 24, 2007
This article is part of a series on guaranteed success for tech and media marketing.
1. What's Your Story: An iPhone Christmas
2. What's Your Story: Demystifying Apple
3. What's Your Story...
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Business
, Commentary
, Marketing
on July 19, 2007
This article is part of a series on guaranteed success for tech and media marketing.
1. What's Your Story: An iPhone Christmas
2. What's Your Story: Demystifying Apple
3. What's Your Story...
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, Consumer Rights
, Legal
, People
, RIAA, IFPI
on July 19, 2007
Shelly Palmer interviews activist and attorney Ray Beckerman, author of the blog
Recording Industry vs The People, which is "[a]bout the RIAA's attempt to monopolize digital music by redefin...
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Business
, Commentary
, Industry
on July 18, 2007
What are the prospects for the P2P industry and music and video distribution now that the legal issues have been decided by the Supreme Court?
As I've previously written, the ongoing litigation ...
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Business
, Commentary
, Marketing
on July 16, 2007
This article is part of a series on guaranteed success for tech and media marketing.
1. What's Your Story: An iPhone Christmas
2. What's Your Story: Demystifying Apple
3. What's Your Story...
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, Education
, Legal
on July 13, 2007
Over the past six months RIAA has renewed its pressure on schools to be their proxy in copyright infringement lawsuits (RIAA To Schools: Can I Add You To My Circle?). The recording industry has experi...
Read more of Open Letter to Universities Whose Students Have Been Targeted by the RIAA
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Apple
, Commentary
, Consumer Rights
, Privacy & Security
on July 5, 2007
apple itunes Plus is here. I recommend that you run away. Fast.
It was announced with a big bang and the promise of free and open music. See Open Format Files Rate a 30% Premium.
It went downhill fr...
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, Companies
, Finance
, Major Labels
, Society & Public Policy
on June 12, 2007
This article is part of a series on the changing music business.
1. Weakly Album Sales
2. It's Not About the Album
3. Album Sales Are Like US Box Office
4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of ...
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Commentary
, Industry
on June 8, 2007
This article is part of a series on the changing music business.
1. Weakly Album Sales
2. It's Not About the Album
3. Album Sales Are Like US box office
4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of ...
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Artists
, Commentary
, Industry
on June 5, 2007
This article is part of a series on the changing music business.
1. Weakly Album Sales
2. It's Not About the Album
3. Album Sales Are Like US Box Office
4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of ...
Read more of It's Not About the Album
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Artists
, Commentary
, Industry
, Major Labels
on May 30, 2007
This article is part of a series on the changing music business.
1. Weakly Album Sales
2. It's Not About the Album
3. Album Sales Are Like US Box Office
4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of ...
Read more of Weakly Album Sales
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on May 29, 2007
This article is part of a series on the changing music business.
1. Weakly Album Sales
2. It's Not About the Album
3. Album Sales Are Like US box office
4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of ...
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Commentary
on May 29, 2007
This article is part of a series on the changing music business.
1. Weakly Album Sales
2. It's Not About the Album
3. Album Sales Are Like US box office
4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of ...
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Commentary
on May 29, 2007
This article is part of a series on the changing music business.
1. Weakly Album Sales
2. It's Not About the Album
3. Album Sales Are Like US box office
4. EMI Sale: The Continuing Destruction of ...
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Commentary
, Legal
, Society & Public Policy
on May 28, 2007
In "A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn't Its Copyright?" Mark Helprin writes "No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exi...
Read more of Copyrights Forever?
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Artists
, Commentary
, Fun
, Society & Public Policy
on May 26, 2007
A young filmmaker talks about pirates who bootlegged his independent movie, and concludes "two wrongs don't make a right. But it's a start."
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, Companies
, Major Labels
on May 11, 2007
"The Den of Thieves" is not the next Madonna song or album. Believe it or not, it's the name of a new Warner Music Group programming division.
Thieves? It's a bizarre name. I get th...
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Commentary
, Government
, Privacy & Security
, RIAA, IFPI
on May 7, 2007
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) report "filesharing Programs and Technological Features to Induce Users to Share" attacks P2P software for causing consumers to inadvertently share...
