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Music biz: piracy our "climate change," governments must act!
The global music industry trade group IFPI has released its Digital Music Report 2010, a 30-page document that makes a single argument: copyright infringement is a form of “climate change” for creative industries, and “we look to governments for action.” According to this view of the world, the music business has now tried its hand at being “innovative” and “customer focused.” It disaggregated albums, it allowed music to go up on everything from Amazon to iTunes to Spotify to Last.fm. It sued users, it launched education campaigns. Nothing worked.
Continue reading »Warner Shakes Hands with eMusic
The music service will add new artists to its online catalog A recent deal between the music downloading service eMusic and giant record label Warner will allow the former to include new artists in its online catalog. Following the agreement between the two companies 10,000 catalog albums will be made available for downloading, but no new popular hits will be added to the list. According to eMusic, the deal could lead to an increase of its customers who may reach 400,000 in number by the end of 2010.
Continue reading »The Beatles and Their Antipiracy Request
The Beatles sell their music on 30,000 apple-shaped USB drives in FLAC 44.1KHz 24bit—higher than 16-bit CD quality—and 320Kbps MP3 files but worry about illegal file sharing Earlier this month we reported about digital music store BlueBeat being sued by EMI for releasing Beatles songs as Mp3s without a license. Since then the big record label has triumphed in court against the US site and all the matter is now water under the bridge but another issue is yet to be cleared – what exactly keeps The Beatles music unavailable over the big net? ArsTechnica has took on answering this question – founded in January 1968 by The Beatles themselves, Apple Corps Ltd.
Continue reading »NPD Group Study Shows Increase in Online Download Sales
When it comes to the ratio between physical album sales and digital download sales, digital download sales have increased at the expense of physical CD sales. That’s not to say that CD sales are falling out of existence, but there seems to be a trend where sales are gradually going online even though most sales are physical CD sales. All this is according to a recently released NPD Group study.
Continue reading »Record Industry Protectionism Killing Digital Music Innovation?
Stifling demands have meant most investors are unable to turn a profit and have thereby turned to other ventures like Twitter and Facebook where they are able to build a viable business model. The RIAA has claimed for several years now that it finally gets it, that it’s working to build viable alternatives to illegal file-sharing for music fans to enjoy in order to answer previous criticisms that it had none. But, as we’ve all witnessed, it’s been a slow march to reality, and even now it doesn’t quit understand what music fans have wanted since Napster’s birth back in 1999.
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