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Australian Court: ISPS are NOT Liable For File-Sharing – Despite Reports That Music Will Save Them Millions In Customer Churn
Jakomi Mathews, examines the issue of morality and ISPs policing consumers of there services…
More RIAA Trial Troubles, How To Settle With A Rebel
Cassandra Callais looks at the ongoing Thomas-Rasset case and ponders – how can the industry deal with serial rebels?
The Russians Are Back
Wayne Rosso, does some detective work on a Russian website selling all major artists music for a pittance…
Opportunity Knocking
Marie-Alicia examines how closely technology is driving the content industry forward…
Apple Devices Are Sexy: But are They Reliable?
With all the hype surrounding Apple’s iPad launch last week TMV thought it about time to dig a bit deeper and look at Apple and the reliability of its devices. Whilst Apple products for the last decade from powerbooks to the iPod and iMacs have been both iconic and look sleek and sexy. Has reliability [...]
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Insights & Analytics Marie-Alicia is co-founder at UK technology start-up musicmetric, a company delivering detailed analytics to the music industry. Marie-Alicia’s role is to help bridge the gap between new technology and the music industry. |
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We all know that the industry is all hands on deck to pressure ISP’s into policing their content. Just a couple of weeks ago rock star bloviator Bono took to the op-ed section of the New York Times to lambast ISP’s as “rich service providers, whose swollen profits perfectly mirror...
On Friday 8th January, 2010 Midem posted an exclusive video interview with Radiohead band member Ed O’Brien. The video provides some much needed insight into where the band were coming from and their whole thinking behind their “pay what you feel its worth” model. Ed also goes on to say...
Entertainment firm HMV is expanding its presence in the live music market by buying venue owner MAMA Group for £46m.
HMV’s move comes nearly a year after it took a 9.9% stake in MAMA, which runs 11 concert venues including the Hammersmith Apollo.
MAMA also owns other interests, including an artist management...
TMV were in attendance and this was most definitely one of the best live music showcase events TMV have ever attended (albeit we will also be at SXSW 2010 for the first time later this year). What must be stated first is that the level of talent playing the event...
EMI, the music group behind artists ranging from Pink Floyd to Katy Perry and country and western band Lady Antebellum, crashed £1.75bn into the red last year, according to figures released by the company on Friday 5th February.
The loss is one of the biggest black holes ever seen in a...
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Gadgets and Services
App Store Piracy Numbers: Implausible or cause for concern?
A controversial report was issued last week about the state of piracy for the Apple iTunes app store which ended up raising quite a few questions, including Apple’s lack of concern for it. In January, Apple announced that over 3 billion apps had been downloaded and since November there have...
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Business Models
We7 Trying Premium Subs As Question Hangs Over Free-With-Ads
One by one, once-free online services are having to launch paid subscription services to tackle the reality of insufficient ad CPMs.
As we reported from Midem, We7 will augment its free option with subscriptions on February 1 – now we have the pricepoints…
—Premium £4.99-a-month gets you the same on-demand music streams...
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