Posted on 27 January 2008 by mike.
7Digital, a London-based service offering music downloads, is one of the few such services to have hung in there in a market that has become incredibly competitive. Part of the reason for the success of 7Digital has been its commitment to supporting unsigned bands and record labels.
The online store recently received £4.2m to fund its [...]
Posted on 27 January 2008 by mike.
Proving that young people in America are really in tune with technology, an NPD report has found that most US youngsters aged between nine and 14 years old are using paid services to get their music downloads, rather than filesharing service like Limewire and Ares.
About 70% of kids in that age range download music, with [...]
Posted on 24 January 2008 by mike.
Last.FM took a major step to offering completely free music on the Internet. Last.FM is an ingenious idea that let’s users share their playlists with the world and provides bios and reviews of bands and artists. It’s social music as its best.
Last.FM has now announced that it will work in partnership with the record industry [...]
Posted on 24 January 2008 by mike.
Ten brave students from the University of Maine have decided to take on the RIAA in its clamp down on illegal filesharing. Two of these students are backed by a university program, which could lead to a landmark ruling in the music industry’s battle against filesharing students.
The Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic is representing two of [...]
Posted on 24 January 2008 by mike.
Although not directly related to music, the implications to filesharing could be huge. Hollywood has tended to blame students filesharing as the root of the entire movie industry’s problems. In a report in 2005, it was asserted that 44% of the industry’s losses was down to filesharing by college students. As if having the RIAA [...]
Posted on 20 January 2008 by mike.
It’s always fun looking at figures to do with music downloads. Although stats can vary from one source to the next, the general consensus is that music downloads and filesharing are dominating how we get out music.
According to stats from the IFPI, digital-music sales grew 40% during 2007, a bit of a slow down after [...]
Posted on 16 January 2008 by mike.
When deciding which P2P filesharing software you want to use, there are heaps of options to choose from. These options, however, vary in quality dramatically. Consistently one of the best choices for filesharing is Ares, an open-source application that is yet to be hit with the same sort of legal problems as services like Limewire.
Ares [...]
Posted on 16 January 2008 by mike.
The University of Washington (UW) has been under the spotlight recently for its stance on filesharing. As with a number of universities in the US, UW has received letters from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) as part of the RIAA’s attempt to curb the number of people who download songs using filesharing services [...]
Posted on 16 January 2008 by mike.
Things don’t look good in the EMI camp. Possibly reeling from the music-download revolution, EMI looks sets to lay off one third of its staff. The problems EMI face are many. The entire music industry is apparently bruised and battered from the fact that legit music downloads are not growing at a fast enough rate [...]
Posted on 15 January 2008 by mike.
Napster hit the headlines again this week with the announcement that the music-download service will begin selling music solely in MP3 format, to commence later this year.
In the past, Napster has sold music downloads in Microsoft’s restricted WMA format, although these sales will continue for some subscription-based offerings.
The move to offer user-friendly MP3s is a [...]
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