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on July 17, 2010
The BPI have released the sales figures for 2009. Legal digital downloads reached an all time high last year, coming in at over 115 million. Physical sales continue their decline since 2002, but no matter what those with a certain agenda tell you have not dropped enough to render the format "obsolete".
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At under 2 million physical single sales in the UK, it might spell a new age for the music industry. While the age of the album has pretty much come to an untimely end thanks to iTunes and the like, this may be the only art-form left for commercial CD sales. The BPI have admitted that illegal downloads are not falling, but they cite this as evidence of re-growth in the music industry. Their figures show there are over 1 billion illegal music downloads every year in the UK now
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on May 29, 2010
A Penny for your ... Songs? P2P File Sharing
Mass adoption of P2P demonstrates the public's real value of music and market power to express it. Consumers reject the artificially inflated prices enforced by the record industry. Indeed the major labels have been convicted of various offenses for price fixing. In an open market economy it is inevitable that the retail price will move to its true value. This has already started to happen. Singles used to carry a price [...] Read More
Digital music, the next generation: MP3Tunes+Beamer An Apple Beater? P2P File Sharing
+ > ? Michael Robertson has unveiled his master plan. If Apple is going to be beat, it is not through YAOMS (Yet Another Online Music Store), a relic of the old days when records were vinyl, retail meant stores, and the labels played god. The game would have to be changed, much as it was when Apple designed their YAOMS (iTunes) as a promotional engine for their [...] Read More
Digital music doldrums - Long-term change P2P File Sharing
This article is one in a series examining the Pali Capital report that showed paid music download growth is slowing. Long-term change The long-term message is that the industry's problems can no longer be obscured by digital. Does this spell doom for music? It depends on your definition of music. Independent artists are thriving through the Internet and P2P. Big music though is another story. While the industry falsely blames others [...] Read More
Add Songs From the Radio The Social Networking Weblog
There's a new music sharing service in town and they have the ability to let you add songs to your playlist right from the radio if you want, no need to know the name of the song either. Just send a text message with the radio station frequency and the song will be added to your playlist. smsTunes also has a music search, so you can add any song to your [...] Read More
Sappy Love Songs Let'sGoPlayMusic
in Virginia You know you secretly enjoy it. You hear the right song on the radio and you just think about snuggling up with that one person. You can't help but smile. Sappy love songs are everywhere. The lyrics aren't particularly spectacular, the chords are basic, but something about those sweet words we're so used to hearing make us happy inside. It might have something to do with [...] Read More
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on May 20, 2010
Technology 2,455, Entertainment 6: The Napster 2.0 Hack P2P File Sharing
Napster hack site features the tag "Hundreds of music CDs, zero dollars, obtained legally." The site shows how to convert secured WMA files to WAV files that can be burned to CD or converted back to MP3 and shared on P2P. It's yet another example of the artificial divide between tethered and untethered files, and downloadable and streaming files. Unlike the Matrix however, in this real world there are thousands [...] Read More
Will Napster 2.0 follow Napster 1.0? P2P File Sharing
Digital Music News reported good news, bad news for Napster. While Napster surpassed 500,000 subscribers, its financial losses continued with rumors of layoffs and a sale. From the article: "Napster has recently reported a subscriber base of 500,000, an announcement that may have been timed to counter reports of an imminent downsizing. The increase represents a 100 percent jump over subscriber totals at the same point last year. "Doubling our subscribers over [...] Read More
Napster Turns 10 P2P File Sharing
Ten years ago this week, college student Shawn fanning released the first version of Napster — and the music industry has never been the same. "Without the original Napster, we'd be far behind where we are now," writes Technologizer's Ed Oswald. "The service made the entertainment industry realize that consumers want more power, and the current state of digital entertainment - and a move back to DRM-free content - owes a [...] Read More
Will Napster 2.0 follow Napster 1.0? Digital Music - The Future
Digital Music News reported good news, bad news for Napster. While Napster surpassed 500,000 subscribers, its financial losses continued with rumors of layoffs and a sale. From the article: "Napster has recently reported a subscriber base of 500,000, an announcement that may have been timed to counter reports of an imminent downsizing. The increase represents a 100 percent jump over subscriber totals at the same point last year. "Doubling our subscribers over [...] Read More
AT&T and Napster Offer Music for Mobiles The Smart PDA
A recent press release from AT&T announces that the service provider has entered into an agreement with Napster to distribute music through mobiles, including smartphones and PDAs. Users can use their handhelds to browse through an online music store, and download songs to their gadgets for a fee. From their initial popularity as the first widespread file-sharing app, through suffering lawsuits from copyright owners, to getting bought by Roxio during a [...] Read More
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on May 11, 2010
Knowledgeable Internet Music Fans Support P2P, a Music Industry Problem P2P File Sharing
A study from Digital Life America shows that by more than 2 to 1 those who have downloaded free or paid music say that P2P should be legal. Consumers who have downloaded online music are certainly the most in the know. They use online music services like iTunes and Napster, download from band web sites, and share via email, IM, P2P, or portable music player copying. These are the real music [...] Read More
Only 5% of iPod Music from iTunes P2P File Sharing
A Jupiter Research survey shows that the real penetration of authorized music downloads is abysmal. Only 20 of the tracks on an iPod or MP3 player, or 5% of the total, are purchased from iTunes or a download site. The remaining 95% of the music comes from various sources - ripped CDs from the owner, files copied or sent by friends, or P2P file sharing services. Furthermore 83% of users [...] Read More
The Sky is Falling: Is the Record Industry Ready to Face the Music? P2P File Sharing
This article integrates and concludes a series of postings over the past week on digital music trends. Mitch Bainwol, Chairman of RIAA, recently told CNET "Digital sales are rising at a value that is larger than the decline in physical sales. We went through a pretty extraordinary time (recently). What you're seeing now is proof of that exercise. The promise of the digital marketplace is being realized. There's new optimism." And now [...] Read More
WiMax and the Music Industry The Wireless Weblog
Gizmodo's Adam Frucci today picks up on an article by Reuters' Antony Bruno looking at the music industry's growing interest in WiMax technology. "They've got dreams of people downloading songs on the go quickly, watching fast, streaming videos on their phones, and all sorts of other money-making schemes," Frucci writes. "It makes sense, as the walled garden of cellphone software will make developing a BitTorrent client for mobile phones relatively difficult, [...] Read More
Music vs. Noise Let'sGoPlayMusic
Let us not forget that music is just a word. Over thousands of years we have defined its meaning. In a nutshell, it is pleasant sounds made by voice or instrument. There's plenty of technical definitions out there about what exactly music is or isn't. But what I'm curious to know is, why do we label certain sounds as "music" and other sounds as "noise?" I think that [...] Read More
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on May 2, 2010
RIAA Vigilante Justice - The Article P2P File Sharing
This article builds on previous blog entries RIAA (The Recording Industry Association of America) openly acknowledges distributing bogus files to deter alleged copyright infringement on the P2P file sharing networks. This is a significant activity as a presentation at the FTC workshop indicated that up to 50% of certain music files are such bogus files. This consumer risk affects not only the user downloading the bogus file, but also other P2P [...] Read More
RIAA vigilante justice P2P File Sharing
This article was inspired by Carlton Vogt and his excellent Enterprise Ethics newsletter. He wrote an article on the Lycos case called The Case Against Vigilantism: Is it ethical to use unethical tactics against someone you consider unethical? Spam, like alleged P2P copyright infringement, is a significant issue. Lycos Europe was going to combat suspected spammers by distributing software that would attack the Internet servers of such spammers. The intent was [...] Read More
RIAA admits much file sharing is accidental P2P File Sharing
RIAA said in November 2004 testimony before the Federal Trade Commission that most P2P users aren't aware that files are being shared. This runs counter to their PR campaign that P2P users are intentional pirates. "As an initial matter, P2P software may, upon installation, automatically search a user's entire hard drive for content. Files that users have no intention of sharing may end up being offered to the entire P2P [...] Read More
RIAA admits much file sharing is accidental Digital Music - The Future
RIAA said in November 2004 testimony before the Federal Trade Commission that most P2P users aren't aware that files are being shared. This runs counter to their PR campaign that P2P users are intentional pirates. "As an initial matter, P2P software may, upon installation, automatically search a user's entire hard drive for content. Files that users have no intention of sharing may end up being offered to the entire P2P [...] Read More
Share Large Files Free The Social Networking Weblog
Like to send music, videos and other files to your friends, but your email program can't handle the large file sizes? Now you can share large files with your friends, free. Tubes and Pando are two programs that will let you send large files, even as big as 1GB, and folders through your email or IM. Pando and Tubes can also be used to post video, audio and photos to your [...] Read More
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