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Starbucks has manufactured a rich experience around six channelsChannels include news, entertainment, wellness, business and careers, my neighborhood Yahoo plays a pivotal role in the behind-the-scenes network experience. News Room - Some Facts About Music Piracy - Jun 25, 2003. Is Music Piracy Stealing? Is Music Piracy Stealing?
Friday, August 8, 2003 By Applelinks Contributing Editor Charles W. Music. Arts Organizations and Digital Technologies Cultural organizations like theater companies, orchestras, and art museums are using the internet, social media, and mobile apps to draw in and engage audiences, provide deeper context, and disseminate their work beyond the stage and the gallery 65% of internet users have paid for online content 65% of internet users have paid to access or download some kind of digital content.
Music and software are the most common kinds of content purchased. Americans and their gadgets As the digital world has expanded far beyond the desktop, consumers can now choose from an array of devices capable of satisfying their need for “anytime, anywhere†access to news, information, friends and entertainment. Pying is Theft – and other legal myths. High performance access to file storage Opinion As the war over P2P downloading heats up, and the record companies launch the novel marketing technique of suing their customers, I think it is an appropriate time to settle some of the pervasive myths about U.S. copyright law which fuel both sides of the debate, writes Mark Rasch, SecurityFocus columnist and former head of the Justice Department's computer crime unit.
The current state of the battleground is that the RIAA, having lost a lawsuit against Kazaa, Morpheus and others for copyright infringement, and having won a lawsuit against Verizon, is actively pursuing subpoenas against various ISPs to force them to pony up the names and addresses of the uploaders and downloaders themselves. Is Piracy Really Killing the Music Industry? Various music industry trade groups claim that piracy is killing their industry, and are suing file traders and the sites they use.
Are music sales, revenue, and profits down? Are MP3 downloads preventing music sales or do they instead help advertise new music? Are paid music downloads profitable or are they still insignificant? Prince: "The Internet's Completely Over" Prince's new album 20Ten may have a name of the moment, but the Purple One is leaving current technology behind in his first British newspaper interview in over a decade, telling the Daily Mirror that not only will the release be unavailable digitally, but that the Web is a thing of the past.
"The internet's completely over," the "Purple Rain" singer said. "I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it. " Prince will give away more than 2.5 million free copies of 20Ten on Saturday, July 10, when the album will arrive packaged with the Daily Mirror and Scotland's Daily Record newspapers (his 2007 album Planet Earth was released in a similar way).
The Battle Over Music Piracy. When Amazon.com announced its plan to open a digital music store to sell MP3s, you had to really work to get excited about it.
It's hard to think of a press release that would be less surprising. At this rate, my 3-year-old daughter will be opening a digital music store pretty soon. And Amazon's selling MP3s? It's a digital music store. What else would it sell? RIAA's Statistics Don't Add Up to Piracy. Year End Statistics -- Net after returns -- All data in millions except Avg. Unit Price CD Units CD Dollars Avg Unit Price Cassette Units Cassette Dollars.
The RIAA? Amateurs. Here's how you sue 14,000+ P2P users. The big music labels and movie studios have stepped back from the lawsuit business.
The MPAA's abortive campaign against individual file-swappers ended years ago, while the RIAA's more widely publicized (and criticized) years-long campaign against P2P swappers ended over a year ago. So why have P2P lawsuits against individuals spiked dramatically in 2010? It's all thanks to the US Copyright Group, a set of lawyers who have turned P2P prosecution into revenue generation in order to "SAVE CINEMA. " The model couldn't be simpler: find an indie filmmaker; convince the production company to let you sue individual "John Does" for no charge; send out subpoenas to reveal each Doe's identity; demand that each person pay $1,500 to $2,500 to make the lawsuit go away; set up a website to accept checks and credit cards; split the revenue with the filmmaker. As it does so, the cries of those who say they have been wrongly targeted will grow—but most people will probably just pay up.
January 2010 May 2010. Judge slashes 'monstrous' fine in music piracy case. In Defense of Piracy. Music Piracy Not That Bad, Industry Says. Post from: TorrentFreak Music Piracy Not That Bad, Industry Says: “ Every year, RIAA’s global partner IFPI publishes a digital music report, which can be best described as a one sided view of the state of digital music consumption.
For several years in a row the report has shown that the sales figures of digital music have gone up, but still, the industry continues to blame piracy for a loss in overall revenue. The Ping Problems: Is Apple To Blame, Or The Music Labels? Vampire Weekend controversy: More details on the former model who's suing the rockers, plus responses from the photographer and band. Former model Ann Kirsten Kennis was surprised to see her face on the front cover of Vampire Weekend‘s Contra when her teenage daughter brought the album home this year.
Victory Records Enlists Gilbert Gottfried In Piracy Battle. The Spotify Solution. Sean Parker And Steve Jobs Got To War Over Spotify, Apple. The comedian and filmmaker has been the smartest and funniest person in the room since he was in high school (maybe even earlier). Here he's profiled just after making his first film. Albert Brooks’ second album, A Star is Bought, is the best comedy record most of you have probably never heart. It was never released on CD and it’s not available on ITunes. And that’s a shame because the record—which was made in collaboration with Harry Shearer—is one of the finest comedy albums ever made.
Never mind that it was nominated for a Grammy or that it was in many ways a precursor to faux-documentary style of This Is Spinal Tap, it Albert in top form. Digital Sales Surge, CDs Slide in First Half of 2010. Google Plots Entry Into Online Music Sales. Prince Declares the Internet Completely Over. Apple Introduces Ping, Social-Networking for Music. Labels Take on Porn Biz in Copyright Lawsuit. One Way to Save the Music Industry. Does the answer to music retailing's collapse lie within the computer game industry? Global music revenues suffered a 10th year of decline in 2009, with sales and performance rights falling to $17 billion. In contrast, revenue from the computer game industry's sale of portable and console hardware, software, and accessories rose from $7.98 billion in 2000 to $20.2 billion in 2009 in the U.S. alone. The music industry may find inspiration in the game industry, where the prevailing Internet-driven trends of online subscription and community participation are reducing piracy and keeping consumers actively engaged.
Why Ping Is the Future of Social Commerce. Apple (AAPL) announced on Wednesday, Sept.1, a cornucopia of new hardware and software: sleek iPods, a brand-new Internet-enabled video streaming device, and new versions of its iOS software and iTunes 10.However, the most impressive to me by far was Ping, the music-only social network that Apple is opening up to its 160 million existing iTunes users. No, I'm not blown away by the 160 million number. What I'm impressed by is the thinking behind Ping. Ping may function like a cross between Facebook and Twitter for iTunes by allowing you to follow celebrities, create social cliques, and get artist updates via an activity stream. Sony Remakes Its Music Company Act.
Apple Upgrades iPod Lineup and Apple TV. Rumblefish to Offer Music for YouTube Users. Apple-Facebook Friction Erupts Over Ping. Update 9:05 p.m. Added Facebook’s Developer Principles. Media Cache - France’s Three-Strikes Law for Internet Piracy Hasn’t Brought Any Penalties. Judge Reduces $675,000 Fine in Downloading Case. 6:42 p.m. | Updated A federal judge has slashed damages by nine-tenths of the original amount in a closely watched music downloading case. Last July a jury awarded $675,000 to four record labels for the 30 songs downloaded and shared by Joel Tenenbaum, a graduate student at Boston University. The Music-Copyright Enforcers. Web Sites Shut in Piracy Crackdown Dispute Warrant. Is music piracy worse than bank robbery? Summer Concert Ticket Sales Decline. For Concert Tours, 2010 Has Been a Tough Sell. Pitchfork: Home. Poptimist: Poptimist #27.
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