Interesting article by Harvard Law Professor surrounding the legalities (says its legal) to share files with your friends privately without $$ gain. . .

kc.
- posted by c @ 12:55 AM

 
Door slammed on Cdn music industry's bid to obtain names of file sharers

Music industry takes on file sharers outside U.S.
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By Joris Evers, IDG News Service MacCentral

Stepping up its campaign against online music sharing, the recording industry on Tuesday said 247 individuals in Denmark, Germany, Italy and Canada face legal action for allegedly making copyright-protected music available on file-swapping services.

Harvard business school study on affect of file sharing. It seems the Australian Piracy Prevention governmental body is upset about the fact the study fails to mention anything about the theft of property they feel is inherent in file sharing. . .

Captivating article in USA Today about kids listening to their parents' music collection - the Whole, Beatles, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith; all that stuff.

Kids are listening to their parents Their parents' music, that is Tue Mar 30, 7:29 AM ET Add Entertainment - USATODAY.com to My Yahoo!


Jamie Horton, 14, considers himself a fairly savvy music-loving teen. The Los Angeles ninth-grader trawls the Internet for rock discoveries and totes an iPod packed with 3,000 tunes.


- posted by c @ 10:29 AM

 
The Baltimore sun reports a shakeout with BestBuy and others deciding not to enter the download market "at this time" due to potentially massive competition.

NYTimes ran a nice piece about webradio, in particular AOl and Yahoo will allow their radio audience to be added together and sold as one to radio advertisers. Certainly makes for more potential choice.

Old school pirate ring busted in NYCity this week. Apparently, capable of making up to 5,000 cds per hour.

MSNBC reports that the concert business is the healthiest part of the music business currently with an average concert seat selling for ~$51.
- posted by c @ 1:54 AM

 
CDs in soda lids. Yes, you read that right.

A Web Refugee Turns to Music and Says, 'The Sky's the Lid'
By BERNARD WEINRAUB

About 16 months ago, Mr. Arnold, a co-founder and former chief executive of the WebMD Corporation, was visiting Los Angeles when a colleague showed him a lid for a 34-ounce plastic soda cup. Tucked inside a transparent pocket were several coupons offered to customers at a convenience store. Mr. Arnold said he was dumbfounded.


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But if you're huge you don't need no stinkin' record cos. really. Read about Prince here.
Interestingly enough, they point out what's absolutely true, Prince could sell 1/10th of his recordings on his site, and make the same as selling 10x those records on iTunes due to the income stream split. . . fascinating shaping up going on.


- posted by c @ 7:25 PM

 
Here's a good blog about the network effect in the race for DRM cache.

Lengthy treatise on the issues around DRM (~50 pages).
- posted by c @ 3:37 PM

 
potential source for underground rock music from detroit.

One of the better "pro-RIAA" (OK, actually pro copyright) discussions I've seen in a long while.
- posted by c @ 2:34 AM

 
Interesting article about indie label owner (large one with white stripes) who says napster may have been the best thing ever -- and also says the future of art and music is with the indies, not the majors.

I concur.
- posted by c @ 5:12 PM

 
Here's a story about sony gearing up for the online content war.

Apple selling out of its mini-ipods so they are delaying worldwide launch of the device.

Microsoft intends to open their own online music store in the fall.
- posted by c @ 4:48 PM