From one type of DRM to another. “Dirty” MP3s

I wanted to share an interesting article I was reading for TechCrunch Enjoy… ——————– All the big music sellers may have moved to non-DRM MP3 files long ago, but the watermarking of files with your personal information continues. Most users who buy music don’t know about the marking of files, or don’t care. Unless [...]

Music Industry’s greed!

Here is an interesting article I found on mashable.com Leave a comment with your opinion. There’s a new dustup in the long and rocky transition to digital music publishing. This time the industry has its sights on collecting performance fees for downloads of music, film and TV as well as licensing fees for the 30-second [...]

Revived Death Row Expands Into Movies

Newly resurrected rap label Death Row Records is expanding into film production. Death Row Records CEO Lara Lavi said her new Death Row Films division is set to shoot “Sons 2 The Grave” in Toronto this October, with Tonya Lee Williams, Dorian Harewood, K.C. Collins (“Flashpoint”) and child actor Cameron Miles Jones on board. The [...]

Spotify VS iTunes #apple #music #spotify

Spotify wants to release and iPhone app and dominate the world of music streaming. “Spotify has been gaining popularity in Europe since its launch in 2006. The peer-to-peer program, which lets users share music from their own collections with other users, is considered one of the top music-streaming sites thanks to its huge library of [...]

2008 Music Biz Revenue

Interesting report released this week by Will Page, chief economist at PRS for Music, the UK’s performance rights organization. The entire report can downloaded here, but the details, in a nutshell: * The value of the recorded music biz fell 6% * The value of the live music industry in the UK increased 13% * [...]

Jay-Z: The rap hegemon

hegemony: –noun, plural -nies. 1. leadership or predominant influence exercised by one nation over others, as in a confederation. 2. leadership; predominance. 3. (esp. among smaller nations) aggression or expansionism by large nations in an effort to achieve world domination. Source Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) is the closest thing to a hegemon which the rap world has known for a long time. [...]

Music and the internet

here’s an interesting article i wanted to share with y’all: Source “It’s hard to tell what’s legal when once-defunct sites like KaZaA and Napster –former bastions of illegal downloads — crawl out of the grave with legit subscription plans. And digital music offerings are expanding. Instead of buying CDs or downloading songs, younger consumers appear [...]

Digital Sales Surpass CDs at Atlantic

Here’s an interesting article that discusses an important milestone in the music industry. I can’t stress this enough…the future is digital! The next milestone i would love to see is the day we retire mp3s and deal with wave or any other lossless digital files. This article comes from The New York Times Enjoy! Since [...]

10,000 HOUR (10 YEAR) RULE-2009 IS MINE!

“It takes 10 years of extensive training to excel in anything” Herbert Simon – Nobel Laureate As 2008 wines down, I’m already thinking about 2009 and realized that 09 will mark my 10 year anniversary in the game. This journey started for me in 1999 as a 17 year old freshman in university. That’s when [...]

The future is DIGITAL

The future is digital and google wants to own it all! Anyone hesitant to embrace this future will be left behind. This is the new way media will be delivered in the future and google (and others…amazon ect) are positioning themselves to be leaders in this digital future. Check out this collection of videos and [...]

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