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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 »FreeAllMusic Adds Content from Universal Music
Ad-sponsored digital music download service announces the inclusion of additional tracks from Universal Music Group. Ad-sponsored digital music download service FreeAllMusic has announced that Universal Music Group is the latest record label to begin offering consumers free, legal downloads on the site. “For the first time, a legitimate free music download service is making ‘doing the right thing’ easier than piracy. Our site is fast, easy and fun for consumers,” noted FreeAllMusic’s Richard Nailling.
Continue reading »Record Label Stops Signing Artists Because of Piracy
Let’s be clear from the start. People who share music on the Internet actually buy more than those who don’t. The music library of the average music fan may have expanded a bit in the last decade thanks to file-sharing, but in the same time the number of sales have also skyrocketed .
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 »Beatles Downloads Available, Lawsuit for License
BlueBeat was sued by EMI for releasing Beatles songs as Mp3s without permission The EMI guys must be very upset. After US digital music store BlueBeat announced last week that it was selling Beatles albums (tracks priced 55 cents, that is 25 cents per song and 30 cents for ‘processing’) spoiling EMI’s own announcement for the first legitimat release of the Beatles back catalog digitally, the record label is now suing for copyright infringement. EMI said BlueBeat is selling Fab Four without a license.
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