This post is part of a series that analyzes Apple's Complete My Album offering. 1. Apple Pimps The Single 2. Complete My Album Is Incomplete 3. Complete My Album Is For Singles 4. Complete My...
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This post is part of a series that analyzes Apple's Complete My Album offering. 1. Apple Pimps The Single 2. Complete My Album Is Incomplete 3. Complete My Album Is For Singles 4. Complete My...
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Filed in archive Companies
by Marc on March 30, 2007
MP3tunes released an update of its oboe music locker with free unlimited online music storage. Oboe features unlimited high quality streaming with no listening or syncing limits. Additional Oboe...
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This post starts a series that analyzes Apple's Complete My Album offering. 1. Apple Pimps The Single 2. Complete My Album Is Incomplete 3. Complete My Album Is For Singles 4. Complete My...
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Filed in archive Companies
by Marc on March 27, 2007
Stefan Birrer, a Graduate student at Northwestern University, has launched Neokast, based on his P2P streaming research. Neokast is focusing on live streams or streams from a file. Birer's...
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The rise of the single is one of the pillars of the digital transformation of the music industry. Last year a landmark point was reached - more singles were sold than albums. That presents a painful...
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Filed in archive Consumer Rights
by Marc on March 24, 2007
"Podcast Primer: An Independent Musician's Quick Reference Guide" is a handy introduction for the Do-It-Yourself musicians. Podcasting involves a host of technologies that need to be...
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We earlier reported on tantalizing progress to remove customer-unfriendly and customer-avoiding DRM on digital music files. Not so quick. ... major label EMI floated the concept to larger retailers...
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Fun Friday brings free downloads for our readers. The band Harvey Danger cordially requests your presence to download its latest album free and asks you to share it with your friends. Technologist...
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Personal social networks like Friendster were not designed for entertainment. MySpace broke open the market with great success by integrating artists and their music. musician's Playground 3D at...
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Filed in archive Stats
by Marc on March 21, 2007
According to Nielsen Soundscan, there were 581 million downloads in 2006 for a growth rate of 54 percent over last year, less than the previous year's growth rate of 163 percent. Market share...
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Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig notes the ironies in copyright law in "Make Way for Copyright Chaos." The controversial 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act was crafted as a...
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Filed in archive Commentary
, DRM
by Marc on March 20, 2007
A DRM developer wrote to me concerned about Apple CEO Steve Jobs' anti-DRM support, and the role and future of DRM. My response has been broken into a few digestible parts of the next few days....
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, DRM
by Marc on March 16, 2007
A DRM developer wrote to me concerned about Apple CEO Steve Jobs' anti-DRM support, and the role and future of DRM. My response has been broken into a few digestible parts of the next few days....
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, Legal
by Marc on March 16, 2007
TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: BOUND BY LAW? is published by The Study of the Public Domain program at Duke University Law School Center. The comic book illustrates copyright law, including the...
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Filed in archive Technology
by Marc on March 15, 2007
A Technology Review article on the top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2007 covers the latest P2P research. Cornell University computer scientist Paul Francis has developed the Chunkyspread P2P network....
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by Marc on March 15, 2007
Colin Dixon of The Diffusion Group quantifies the coming home bandwidth crisis. US telcos have a problem. They're selling triple play services with voice, video, and data. But their delivery...
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, DRM
by Marc on March 14, 2007
A DRM developer wrote to me concerned about Apple CEO Steve Jobs' anti-DRM support, and the role and future of DRM. My response has been broken into a few digestible parts of the next few days....
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, Legal
by Marc on March 13, 2007
Viacom has sued Google YouTube for $1 billion for copyright infringement. The suit included an injunction to prevent YouTube from continued copyright infractions. Google's $1.6 billion purchase...
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, RIAA, IFPI
by Marc on March 12, 2007
RIAA has unveiled P2PLawsuits.com, its new online payment web site for pre-lawsuit settlement. If you're sued for copyright infringement, just enter your case and pay by credit card or check. The...
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Filed in archive Retail
by Marc on March 09, 2007
All online music stores are not the same. TuneTuzer compares many music services in the US and UK from the majors like iTunes, Napster, zune, buy.com, and Wal-Mart, to indie and niche sites. Format...
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