Tags: riaa
Tags: riaa
AP looks at our favorite major label bully
Posted Wednesday January 17, 2007, 6:49 am, Over one day old at The Digital Music Weblog
Filed under: News, Apple, Microsoft, RIAA Ah Doug Morris, unibrow baby to the digital music revolution. See Also: Universal may shoot for royalty deal with Apple Universal Music's Doug Morris, phone phreak Universal rasies pressure on Youtube and Myspace Universal Music Group vs.
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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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Mixtape DJs raided by RIAA jacketed agents in Atlanta
Posted Wednesday January 17, 2007, 6:49 am, Over one day old at The Digital Music Weblog
Record companies often welcome and profit from the hype generated by mixtapes for upcoming artists, but are bothered by the competition mixtapes can provide once an artist is well established.
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RIAA as 17th Century French button maker
Posted Tuesday January 16, 2007, 6:49 am, Over one day old at The Digital Music Weblog
It seems tailors began making buttons out of dense cloth, which outraged the established button making industry, leading to the government imposition of strict fines on the cloth button makers, and some rather-paranoid tactics to ensure control of the market.
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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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US Album sales slow during 07's first week
Posted Thursday January 11, 2007, 6:49 am, Over one day old at The Digital Music Weblog
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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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Default judgment entered in Santangelo part deux
Posted Thursday January 11, 2007, 6:49 am, Over one day old at The Digital Music Weblog
Santangelo refused to settle and fought the lawsuit, which the RIAA eventually dropped and replaced with a lawsuit against Santangelo's children (both of which were minors at the time of the alleged copyright infringement, the eldest of which has since turned 18).
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Hypebot asks indie labels about DRM
Posted Wednesday January 10, 2007, 5:27 am, Over one day old at The Digital Music Weblog
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