Is BigChampagne Fooling People?
A damning critique of BigChampagne, which monitors and conducts research on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks: “It is troubling that BigCha… Read more »
A damning critique of BigChampagne, which monitors and conducts research on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks: “It is troubling that BigCha… Read more »
This according to this story in WSJ. Mike Bebel, pressplay’s president, who becomes president and COO of Roxio’s Napster unit, added that th… Read more »
The new Madrid-based company, called Puretunes, is the second Spanish Web service to try offering access to a vast and otherwise unavailable… Read more »
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As part of the deal, Roxio bought a legal digital music distribution infrastructure and catalog rights with all five major music labels for… Read more »
Roxio is close to a deal to acquire Pressplay, the online-music operation owned by the music units of Vivendi Universal and Sony, for about… Read more »
“The industry has long believed that the main music downloading population are teenagers downloading the likes of Eminem and Limp Bizkit, bu… Read more »
Digital music will generate just EUR 24 million in Europe in 2003, but will grow into a EUR 1.3 billion market by 2007, accounting for 13 pe… Read more »
Apple is negotiating with major European record labels to launch a version of its hugely successful iTunes online music download store befor… Read more »
Mindful that the vast majority of computer users have Microsoft operating systems, Apple rivals are ramping up plans to offer similar perman… Read more »
Suing music pirates may scare off a few file-sharers, but providing legal alternatives along the lines of Apple iTunes makes more sense. Read more »
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The RIAA has named piracy as the magic bullet of declining
sales over the past two years. Well, one way to stop
downloading would be to ma… Read more »
File-Cash, a new “legitimate” P2P sharing network, will launch from June 1, and offer a catalog of music from over 100 independent labels.… Read more »
In UK, Ministry of Sound is relaunching its website in a bid to make music downloads from artists such as Fatboy Slim, Christina Aguilera an… Read more »
“According to academics who’ve studied the economics of digital music distribution, the cost still seems too high to attract users of peer-t… Read more »
“But what Jobs didn’t note is the debt he owes to those services and to the defunct music companies that came before them, which have spent… Read more »
Buried at the end of the long, long Fortune story I linked to below, a tantalizing possibility: “AOL has been trying to develop its own musi… Read more »
Ed’s Note: “Tying it Up” is a new regular tidbit which will keep a watch on trends, collating news and analysis from not just online content… Read more »
An interview with singer Peter Gabriel on his digital music company OD2 and his belief in the ftire of music subscription services. “The mus… Read more »
A federal judge in Los Angeles has handed a stunning court victory to file-swapping services Streamcast Networks and Grokster, dismissing mu… Read more »
Perhaps the most interesting development in the radio industry for a long time: XM Satellite Radio has introduced a product to deliver their… Read more »
EMI Group has signed deals with 20 digital music distributors to sell its music on the Internet, in the most wide-ranging online push by a m… Read more »
RealNetworks has acquired the critically-acclaimed online music service Listen.com (with its Rhapsody music service) in a cash and stock tra… Read more »
MusicMatch has launched a new web-based version of its music service which will allow workplace users–who either can’t or don’t want to dow… Read more »
“The new music service will be integrated with Apple’s iTunes music software, which currently is employed by Mac users to organize and play… Read more »
A detailed story on how bidding for Vivendi’s Universal Music Group has fallen flat, including considering Apple’s bold bid. “Talks in recen… Read more »
A not-very-flattering review of FullAudio’s MusicNow online music subscription service. Read more »
Or so says NY Times. “The talks between Apple and Vivendi covered the concept of buying as much as a third of the music unit, according to p… Read more »
Stories following Apple’s reported ambition to buy Universal Music from Vivendi for $6 billion:
–Now It’s Microsoft: Microsoft has express… Read more »
An analysis of the possible acquisition of Universal Music by Apple, by the Microsoft-specialist at CNET News.com, writing for BetaNews. “Ap… Read more »
Finally artists and record labels are waking up to the revenue generating potential of online fan clubs: Island Def Jam is getting into the… Read more »
(free registration): Apple Computers in talks with Vivendi Universal to buy Universal Music Group, the world’s largest record company, for a… Read more »
The second Digital Download Day, the music industry?s promotion of unequivocably legal digital music, kicked off in the UK yesterday with th… Read more »
Rapper Ice T, one of the few artists to support file-sharing and the now-defunct Napster, said on Wednesday he is making his music available… Read more »
Recording label holdout Sony Music has quietly joined rivals in agreeing to release selected songs by top artists such as Michael Jackson an… Read more »
A very innovative music funding model being tested by New Jersey-based artist Pat DiNizio, lead singer/songwriter of the Smithereens. He has… Read more »
Bands can’t prevent bootlegging, but they can control it more than they have so far. “Beta versions of software become irrelevant when final… Read more »
“With the bigger players — Microsoft, AOL , RealNetworks, Apple and Sony Music — all putting their cards on the table, the hedge-betting h… Read more »
Yahoo Japan has inked a deal with Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers, that will allow it to distribute music o… Read more »
Venture capitalist Greg Blonder says there are hard-headed business reasons that support the notion of giving away music. Read more »
CBS network has rejected a TV ad from Gateway on grounds that it took a stand in the lingering controversy over digital copyrights. Gateway’… Read more »
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