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Music industry on game devs fighting illegal file-sharers: you're on your own (QJ.NET)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:35:45 GMT

... Dream Pinball from a file-sharing website. Now, even before the day has finished, the music industry has given their own two cents on the issue - another victim of piracy - and surprise, surprise, they're not backing the gaming industry on this one. Matt Phillips, director of communications of the BPI (formerly known as the British Phonographic Industry), says "that working with ISPs...

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Growth of Live Entertainment Has Vastly Outpaced Most Forms of At-Home Entertainment and Has Become the Crux of the Newly Emerged Music Industry (Business Wire)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:25:00 GMT

Growth of live entertainment has vastly outpaced most forms of at-home entertainment and has become the crux of the newly emerged music industry. Growth has been consistent and uninterrupted for the last decade, but industry dynamics are shifting as major players redefine their roles and their relationships with performing artists. It remains to be seen whether the momentum of...

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'Dancing Baby' Lawsuit Turns Tables on Music Industry (Switched)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:29:00 GMT

Filed under: Audio/Video , Computers It's a sad state of affairs for the music industry these days. It's making far more news for its idiotic statements and unnecessarily huge lawsuits than for discovering and nurturing fresh new talent. This time, though, it's the industry that's on the receiving end of a lawsuit, being taken to court by a mother whose video was removed from...

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Putting a face on the record industry (dustbury.com)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:02:29 GMT

... J. Random Buyer doesn't give half a hoot what label something's on. Nobody has ever gone into a record store asking "Hey, anything new from Interscope?" or "What's Virgin shipping these days?" Even the one-stops I used to hang around, which shelved things by label, didn't expect anyone to come in and ask for well, okay, once I came in, armed with a catalog number, mainly because I wasn't...

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Has the music industry cracked it? (black country grammar)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:22:00 GMT

Bloc Party have released their new album, 'Intimacy', today using the web first, physical later model. You can get the album for either £5 for download today, £8 for delivery in October (with 3 bonus tracks), or £10 for download now and CD later. What's even cooler is that the files come in audiophile friendly 320kbps format. Click here to visit their site to download. Like Radiohead, Bloc Party have...

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Music industry can't force Web removal of song excerpts, judge rules (Democratic Underground)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:22:38 GMT

Source: [b]San Francisco Chronicle[/b] In a victory for small-time music copiers over the entertainment industry, a federal judge ruled today that copyright-holders can't order one of their songs removed from the Web without first checking to see if the excerpt was so small and innocuous that it wa...

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Has The Recording Industry Given Up On DRM For Streaming Music? (Techdirt)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:41:06 GMT

We recently mentioned that a big supporter of DRM stopped by in the comments to insist that DRM was here to stay despite plenty of evidence of its gradual decline in the market. Well, now the EFF has pointed out more evidence of the death of DRM. It wasn't that long ago that the RIAA was pushing for laws that would require DRM on any streaming music offering (yes, streams, rather than downloads). Since...

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What the music industry doesn (http://www.CelebrityVideoTube.com)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:14:13 GMT

Stuff In this week's episode of the Digital Home podcast, Don Reisinger takes a look at what Google and Apple are doing and talks a little about his new video series. After that, he talks with Rhapsody abou… Read the full article here

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The Digital Home 29: What the music industry doesn't want you to know (Cnet)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:50:00 GMT

Check out Don Reisinger's latest podcast where he discusses Apple, Google, and more! After that, he chats with Rhapsody about what's really going on in the music industry.

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RIAA executive Kenneth Doroshow moves from record industry to gaming industry (Recording Industry vs The People)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:49:00 GMT

I guess we may have to rename this blog "Gaming Industry vs. The People" some day, as we have just learned that Kenneth Doroshow -- the RIAA executive who was supposed to debate the statutory damages issue with me back in March, but who chose to avoid that subject and instead recounted his opinion of the facts in Capitol v. Thomas , and who later inserted some paper he'd written into the transcript...

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8Tracks - cool Muxtape replacement proves that the music industry keeps losing, stays stupid (The Red Ferret Journal)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:33:06 GMT

So the RIAA has shut down Muxtape? No fear, here’s 8Tracks. And if they shut that down, there’ll be another. And another. And another… There’s something of a pattern here isn’t there? Sigh. Oh and by the way, this is a very cool music sharing application notwithstanding music industry stupidity. 8tracks is [...] 157 words | email this | permalink | no comments | digg this related...

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Is the Record Industry Coming Around? (Darkness at Noon)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:55:40 GMT

(via Slashdot) Nate Andreson has an article about Warner consultant Jim Griffin coming around to the idea of blanket music licensing where a fee is built into your ISP costs and you have free access to the catalogs of participating record companies. It’s an idea I’ve advocated in the past, however I’d rather see it [...]

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Did You Know? - Music Industry Remix (The Fischbowl)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:02:00 GMT

A while back Scott McLeod , Jeff Brenman (who did the Slideshare version ) and I received an email from someone at Sony BMG Music Entertainment asking us if they could remix the various versions of Did You Know? for a meeting they had coming up. We said sure and they came up with this and gave us permission to link to it. (It takes a little while to load - sorry, can't figure out how to embed...

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Compact Disc Turns 26, Has a Bright Future (CentOS, Linux and Operating Systems)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:19:51 GMT

javipas writes “The Compact Disc was created 26 years ago, but apparently it is as healthy as 15 years ago, when computing versions of this format (CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW) made the market explode. Nowadays CD has been replaced in some segments, but not on the music industry, that continues to support it massively. The shy [...]

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UK law firm looks to begin prosecuting file sharers (BetaNews)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:13:53 GMT

Davenport Lyons has been working with the music industry in the UK to sniff out P2P users. Now it will ask the UK courts to force ISPs to release information to identify them.

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Smashing Coldplay strategy kept new EMI from being DOA (The Irish Times)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:57:19 GMT

With EMI losing Paul McCartney, Radiohead and The Rolling Stones in quick succession, and with other acts on the label, such as Robbie Williams, threatening to go on strike, it wasn't looking good for the famous imprint earlier this year.

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Single Reviews 25/08/08 (The Sloppy Dog)

noreply@blogger.com (al) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:00:00 GMT

Welcome, one and all, to this week’s Single Reviews, where we’d like to take a moment to reflect on the news that Reverend & The Makers are to split, and Jon McClure is stepping back from the music industry. WOO-HOO!!! Pop open the champagne Lambrini, the charts have just gotten marginally less shit! Now we just need Fightstar, Mika, Katy Perry, the Kaiser Chiefs, Cascada and the Overrated...

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EA boss is against suing file-sharers (AfterDawn.com)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:35:28 GMT

Upon hearing that five game companies were planning to sue 25,000 UK citizens over piracy , EA boss Peter Moore noted that he is against the suing of consumers for illegal downloading. In his words, "it didn't work for the music industry." "I'm not a huge fan of trying to punish your consumer," he said. "Albeit these people have clearly stolen intellectual property, I think there are...

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Sellaband To License Music to Advertisements (Listening Post)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:13:32 GMT

Sellaband, which reinvents the record label model by letting listeners discover and invest in bands, has replicated another aspect of the traditional music industry by allowing filmmakers and advertisers to license Sellaband-created music for their projects through a partnership with...

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MPAA, RIAA: the fine art of creative accounting (p2pnet)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:12:09 GMT

p2pnet news view MPAA | RIAA News:- What’s the difference between the RIAA, MPAA and BSA? - p2pnet asked rhetorically in November last year, answering, rhetorically: “There is no difference. “MPAA means Motion Picture Association of America, RIAA is Recording Industry Association of America and BSA is Business Software Alliance. “All three are front organizations owned and maintained [...]

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