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- Apple, Amazon, and the Music Industry -- Same Old Tune?
- The music industry is often excoriated for viewing electronic downloads as enemy rather than opportunity. It has a hate-love relationship with Apple, creator of the iPod and iTunes. It has a love-hate relationship with its own artists such as Prince who are trying to use digital to break the old...
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Does Copy Protection Hamper Sales?
- If stats from U.K. music e-tailer 7 Digital are any indication by way of Ars Technica, then the answer to the headline would be, "yes." Music with digital rights management DRM is four times less likely to sell than tracks without DRM protection. Additionally, those who buy DRM-free music are...
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
- BNET Daily Dispatch: IBM, Digital Music, Williams-Sonoma, and Green Manufacturing
- IBM announced today that it will cut another 1,570 jobs, mostly in its North American technology services unit. The company has dispatched with about 3,000 jobs this quarter and Lee Conrad, national coordinator for the Alliance at IBM, predicts that layoffs will reach 12,000 jobs for the year....
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Amazon's DRM Free World
- Amazon decided it wants in on the digital music service market and clearly has its eyes on snatching up iTune users. So what are the implications of Amazon's new foray into digital music peddling? Well, the move will make Amazon the first digital music service to offer...
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Steve Jobs: Prophet or Self-Promoter?
- Sure Steve Jobs’ is being lauded as a giant killer and hero for music consumers in his call for the death of copy-protection technology -- aka DRM -- in an essay he posted Tuesday. But it also may have been one of the cheapest marketing ploys in recent memory. From...
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Latest Apple Rumor: DRM-Free Music Headed from Sony BMG to iTunes
- Seth Gilbert submits: In 2006 and 2007, Apple AAPL was one of the torch-bearers in the movement to push record labels to license downloadable copies of their music without digital rights management encryption (DRM). When the fruits of that effort were eventually harvested and the labels decided to go DRM-Free,...
- External links 2008-11-12
- Time Warner allies with Adobe for Flash publishing
- Time Warner is teaming up with Adobe to integrate Flash and digital rights management DRM capabilities into Warner Bros Entertainment,Turner Broadcasting System and HBO. Time Warner says HBO.com will soon be relaunched ?making extensive use of the Adobe...
- Articles 2009-03-03
- Grand Theft iTunes
- Take-Two Interactive is switching from Amazon’s MP3 store to iTunes as the retail partner for its Grand Theft Auto IV expansion, The Lost and the Damned. In-game songs can be tagged for later purchase online. Apple’s decision to remove digital...
- Articles 2009-02-13
- EMI Launches Personalised Music Discovery Site For Direct-To-Fan Retail
- Nevermind iTunes, EMI Music is going direct to fans with the surprise launch of a new EMI.com site featuring playlists, recommendations and, soon, the ability to purchase tracks from the label's artists. The new EMI.com - currently in "beta", just like EMI itself nowadays - is first and foremost...
- External links 2008-12-17
- Nokia Comes With Music Service DRM "Cracked"?
- Has Nokia's Comes With Music service been cracked? News has surfaced that there's a way to break open the WMA DRM-protected unlimited tracks available on Nokia's 5310 XpressMusic and N95. But it's not so much a hack as a way around it. According to Electricpig.co.uk, there's a new version...
- External links 2008-12-11
- iPhone book-reading app Stanza secures 40,000 new titles
- Users of iPhone book-reading app Stanza will have access to 40,000 new titles after Stanza’s creator, Lexcycle, signed a deal with e-book retailer Fictionwise. Stanza users will access a Fictionwise store, in which the retailer’s products are protected by its digital rights management technology. by George Mitton
- Articles 2008-12-04
- Digital Growth Won't Stop Overall Music Sales Shrinking: Forecast
- US digital music sales will grow by 17 percent per year on average over the next five years, to make up 41 percent of sales by 2013, Forrester's latest Jupiterresearch forecast says. But that won't stop overall sales shrinking by 0.8 percent per year on average from $10.2 billion...
- External links 2008-12-02
- iTunes to offer more DRM-free tracks - Rumour
- Apple is rumoured to be in talks with three of the four major music labels about offering DRM-free tracks on its iTunes music service. Citing "two music industry sources", CNET says Apple is in preliminary talks with Universal, Warner and...
- Articles 2008-11-20
- MP3 'Inventor' Brandenburg Invests In DJTunes Dance Music Site
- Karlheinz Brandenburg, credited with at least jointly "inventing" MP3, has joined with a German development bank to invest in DJTunes, a European music download site offering house, techno, trance and electro tracks in that very file format. DJTunes targets DJs, club-goers and labels and claims over 300,000 tracks, all...
- External links 2008-11-19
- 3 in mobile gaming deal with Buongiorno
- Mobile operator 3 is outsourcing its games portal to content specialist Buongiorno. The site, which has just been launched on the web and via WAP, sells mobile games based on Java technology in the UK and Ireland. Under the deal,...
- Articles 2008-11-17
- How to share sensitive documents and maintain control over them
- Businesses need to share important or sensitive documents on a daily basis, whether it's quotes or RFP responses sent to customers, intellectual property or specs shared with contractors, or financial information shared in the context of an M&A transaction (e.g. Deal Room). But once recipients receive the documents, you lose...
- White papers 2009-09-02
- SingTel launches unlimited mobile music downloads
- Asian telecoms firm SingTel is launching a free mobile music download service in Singapore which offers unlimited music downloads with no data charges. Developed in partnership with Universal Music, SingTel’s AMPed service also gives users access to music videos, entertainment news, pre-album releases and live performances. ...
- Articles 2009-06-14
- Virgin and Universal to offer unlimited music downloads
- Virgin Media and Universal Music are teaming up to offer a music service that could be the first to let users download an unlimited number of songs without digital rights management DRM restrictions. The service will only be available to Virgin Media broadband subscribers. ...
- Articles 2009-06-14
- DivX signs two Hollywood studios for its DRM technology
- DivX has signed deals with Hollywood studios Paramount and Lionsgate to enable online retailers worldwide to offer their films in the DivX video format. The company announced similar deals with Sony Pictures and Warner Bros in 2008. DivX’s digital rights management DRM system allows consumers to access downloaded movies...
- Articles 2009-08-03
- EA Sued Twice More over Use of DRM Technology
- Seth Gilbert submits: In early September, EA ERTS began selling the highly anticipated PC game title, Spore, around the globe. The ambition was huge, the hype enormous. Spore was to be a “sure thing” hit. So far, it’s lived up to that expectation. The game is the top seller...
- External links 2008-11-12
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