Tags: ifpi
Tags: ifpi
Your ISP is the IFPI's next target
Posted Wednesday January 17, 2007, 6:49 am, Over one day old at The Digital Music Weblog
Filed under: News, RIAA, IFPI According to the IFPI's "Digital Music Report 2007", your residential ISP is the their next front in the war on piracy. " (emphasis added) It's unclear exactly what the IFPI wants ISPs to do but, it is pretty clear that they want it done now.
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Digital sales healthy, holiday sales figures may hang around
Posted Friday January 12, 2007, 6:49 am, Over one day old at The Digital Music Weblog
While the nay-sayers are forecasting the demise of the music business (once again), Coolfer shows us that optimisim may be the better track, "Last week, digital track sales totaled over 21 million, a 29% drop from the previous week but still 61% higher than the same week in 2006.
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Atlantic Monthly : Mp3 = VHS / DRM = Betamax
Posted Friday January 12, 2007, 6:49 am, Over one day old at The Digital Music Weblog
Filed under: General, DRM, Apple, RIAA, IFPI, BPI, iTunes Michael Hirchshorn of The Atlantic Monthly takes a look at Web 2.0 music services and while drawing lines though a connect the dots progression comes up with several gems of inference.
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Online consumers re-energizing music business?
Posted Thursday January 11, 2007, 6:49 am, Over one day old at The Digital Music Weblog
According to the survey, "The vast majority of online music service users report that enjoying music over the Internet has expanded their musical tastes, allowing them to discover new artists and explore new music genres.
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Jupiter predicts digital sales through 2011
Posted Wednesday January 10, 2007, 5:27 am, Over one day old at The Digital Music Weblog
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Major seizure of blank media, is this news?
Posted Tuesday January 9, 2007, 6:49 am, Over one day old at The Digital Music Weblog
Filed under: News, IFPI More proof that, if given their rathers, the IFPI would love to see blank optical media made illegal. In a recent press release the IFPI's piracy prevention team is touting the seizure of a large quantity of blank media as a major victory against pirates.
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Eulogizing the CD, the ills of disposable music
Posted Monday January 8, 2007, 6:49 am, Over one day old at The Digital Music Weblog
Lomax writes, "Looking back over the past 45 years, it is now plain that the move from vinyl to CD was not the bold step forward we were told it would be. Their visual appeal was almost always minimal and yet they took up what now seems like a lot of shelf space."
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German music biz to sue 1k users per month
Posted Sunday January 7, 2007, 6:49 am, Over one day old at The Digital Music Weblog
Filed under: News, IFPI The German arm of the IFPI, which has reportedly sued over 20,000 people since 2004, is planning to pick up the pace just a bit in the new year. Filesharing lawsuits within Germany work a bit differently than in other places around the globe.
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EU to criminalize filesharing
Posted Thursday January 4, 2007, 6:49 am, Over one day old at The Digital Music Weblog
Filed under: News, IFPI Two powerful members of the EU Parliament are working to change EU copyright laws in such a way that practically any infringement of a copyright, no matter how small, could be punishable by exceedingly steep fines.
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