While still recovering from the March earthquake and the tsunami and the hacking case which led to the fall of its shares Sony Corporation is trying to bounce back to the normal with its increase in s…
Millions of musicians try to promote their songs every day. They use free download services and social media networking to try to get their demo off the ground. However, one awesome way to really ma…
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Business on September 30th, 2009
In some newly publishd stats, we are seeing once more just how big Youtube has become; the site becoming a literal giant of the net. Ten billion video views in the month of August, almost 2 for every …
Grooveshark has always been a bit of an oddball in the online world, inititally starting as a complex peer to peer paid download system, before moving onto a social on demand system with the ability t…
I'll admit, I'm a bit of a Zune fanboy; it's a quality device with better software, and in my opinon, hardware than the competition from Apple, and seeing the above device being announce…
The Pirate Bay have always defined the image of defiant internet rights; they threw caution to the wind, ignored legal requests, and have now met their match in Swedish courts, with the entire adminis…
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Business on February 4th, 2009
Okay, admittedly slightly off the topic of digital music, but still pretty relevant. I found out a fairly suprising fact today, that unlike in the UK, US radio stations do not have to pay royalities f…
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Business on September 16th, 2008
Metalica, the once notorious digital music haters, recently released their latest album, Death Magnetic, with a new attitude to the subject. They decided they needed to embrace the digital world thr…
PlayLouder have a good idea; offseting illegaly downloaded music by taking a chunk of an ISPs fee and distributing it to labels in royalities. Unfortunatly there is a big problem with this; there is a…
Napster, since it's reinvention, has done well, despite the knowledge that it will always play second fiddle to the massive iTunes. As such it's unfortunate to see revenues slip from 32milli…