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Google and music – what’s next

Here’s an interesting take on what Google is up to re: getting involved in music distribution. The key point: we are approaching a time when we stop managing our music collections on a local hard drive and instead locate them … Continue reading

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Future of Newspapers: Profitless? Go Wireless

By Douglas Wolk for Wired| 07.14.09 It’s undeniable that the going rate for information on the internet is “free.” That’s meant big trouble for newspapers, which have seen nearly all of their traditional roles usurped by better, faster, free online … Continue reading

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Apple and Labels Hope to Reinvent Digital Album as Something People Buy

By Eliot Van Buskirk, Wired July 27, 2009 The view that technology is an unstoppable juggernaut moving at lightning pace isn’t always accurate. Sometimes the simplest ideas take years to realize — even when Apple is involved and the future … Continue reading

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Landmark Pirate Bay Trial Begins Monday

The much-anticipated criminal trial of The Pirate Bay’s operators begins in a Stockholm criminal court on Monday. The men behind of the notorious BitTorrent tracking service known for pointing the way to pirated software, games, music and movies are accused … Continue reading

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403 Ways to Slice a CD

An album isn’t just an album anymore–it’s an opportunity to parse songs into ringtones, downloads, blog skins, and more.  Warner Music found 23 ways to market one South Korean pop star’s 16-track album–for a total of 403 sellable items: Music … Continue reading

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More on DRM-less music

Here’s a link from Wired’s Eliot Van Buskirk that re-inforces my earlier post that labels are going to have to consider doing away with copy restrictions on music files. Eliot’s main points: 1) with CD sales tanking, labels don’t have … Continue reading

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Another File Sharer Toes the Line

The firm behind popular online file-sharing software eDonkey has agreed to pay $30 million to avoid potential copyright infringement lawsuits from the recording industry, according to court documents filed Tuesday. New York-based MetaMachine was one of seven technology firms to … Continue reading

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Long Tail Revisited

The Long Tail is a statistical distribution model that can be used to graphically portray high sales volumes from a small set of high-profile artists versus low-sales volumes from many smaller, lower profile artists: Beginning in a series of speeches … Continue reading

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Wired September Issue: No Suit Required

Article from September Wired Magazine by Jeff Howe: Terry McBride has a maverick approach to music management: Take care of the fans and the bands, and the business will take care of itself. Terry McBride has an idea. Another idea. … Continue reading

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Wired News: Napster Goes Mobile

Interesting that the company that created the illegal download environment has risen phoenix-like to promote a legal subscription model. For about the price of one CD a month, Napster subscribers can load their portable music player with unlimited songs, delivering … Continue reading

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Wired 13.01: The BitTorrent Effect

Another nail in the coffin of trying to control distribution of electronic media – you can’t. Better that the movie producers and (soon to be obsolete) legacy record companies assist artists by standardizing on a digital rights compensation model with … Continue reading

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Wired: The Shadow Internet

Good article on how movies and music make it to P2P networks. For those at the top, piracy is a game………. Wired 13.01: The Shadow Internet

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Wired 12.10: The Long Tail

Great article: changing paradigms about on-line content distribution. Good reading for any content creator, especially for independents looking to leverage their books/music in on-line catalogues that have both ends of the spectrum – corporate artists (i.e. major label acts)and indies. … Continue reading

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