MySpace is currently blocking Photobucket Videos from user profiles. Photobucket has posted a response on its blog, asking users to submit complaints to MySpace. TuneCore has found a niche in the new digital media marketplace. The company handles digital distribution for independent musicians. For a small annual fee, Tunecore will distribute albums to online retailers Continue Reading →
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Apple announced the sale of the 100 millionth iPod and released current sales figures for the iTunes Music Store. iTunes has sold 2.5 Billion songs, 50 Million TV shows, and 1.3 Million movies. Yahoo! announced a new media device. The device can play Yahoo Music files, connect to the web via WiFi, and sync with Continue Reading →
“Today, EMI is taking the next big step forward in the digital music revolution. This is something that will become very popular” said Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs. He was referring, of course, to the fact that Apple and EMI are going to start selling DRM-free music (no copy protection) through the iTunes Music Store. The Continue Reading →
Google will begin selling television ads for EchoStar’s satellite television service. Spots will be awarded to winners of online auctions, with Google taking a commission on each ad sale. Lost Remote ran an “over the top” experiment. Blogger Cory Bergman attempted to spend one week watching only content purchased from the iTunes store. It cost Continue Reading →
EMI will begin selling DRM-free music via online music retailers. On iTunes, higher-quality DRM-free tracks will cost $1.29. iTunes will continue to sell DRM-ed songs for $.99 cents, at the current (lower) bitrate. Viacom has been drawing some heat for linking to YouTube videos from Viacom-controlled blogs. The company has sued YouTube for $1 Billion, Continue Reading →
On February 6, 2007, Apple co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs posted this essay on the Internet. Steve literally takes a page out of my book, Television Disrupted: The Transition from Network to Networked TV when he says, “DRMs haven’t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy.” I have read many commentaries on this Continue Reading →
The crowd went wild as the first dot of glowing red light became visible from atop Stratton Mountain. It was the beginning of the traditional New Year’s Eve Torchlight Parade – about 100 ski instructors each holding a flare, skiing down the mountain in ever-larger synchronized S-turns. It was a truly beautiful sight. As they Continue Reading →
RIAA Seeks to Penalize Musicians for Industry Failures “Mechanical royalties currently are out of whack with historical and international rates,” RIAA executive vp and general counsel Steven Marks commented recently. “We hope the judges will restore the proper balance by reducing the rate and moving to a more flexible percentage rate structure so that record Continue Reading →
THERE WAS AN INTERESTING NEWS item this week in the Wall Street Journal that quoted a sharply worded letter from Target President Gregg Steinhafel, who said that the chain had become aware that “some movie studios have made new-release movies available to download service providers at lower cost” than DVDs, allowing the downloaded movies to Continue Reading →
On September 5, 2006 Katie Couric will make broadcast history–not by becoming the anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” but by participating in the first network television newscast to metamorphose into a full-featured Internet simulcast. Sean McManus, President, CBS News and Sports, explains: “For people who can’t be in front of their televisions when the Continue Reading →