Morality in the Digital Age

The Big Hurt

Ted Cohen wades into the ongoing battle against BitTorrents and recent legal judgements…

May 13 2010 | Posted in Digital,featured | Read More »

Copyright Is So Damn Annoying!

Share This week Pandora announced over $50 million in annual revenues. This was, for many, big news. Even bigger news was the announcement last month that they were profitable in the 4th quarter of 2009, and tracking full-year profitability in 2010. But the information that seemed to rub many industry critics the wrong way was [...]

Feb 22 2010 | Posted in Business Models,Digital,featured,Labels | Read More »

My Christmas Wish List

Share As I sit here at the end of an eventful year, it feels like we’ve made a lot of progress in digital music, but we have such a long way to go. My wish is that the gains we’ve made are the basis for the digital music landscape we’ve all dreamed of. Digital services [...]

Dec 22 2009 | Posted in Wide Angle | Read More »

Apple Moves Toward Music As Service

Share For nearly four years, I’ve been evangelizing the transition of the music industry from a product-based business to a service-based economy. I’ve never viewed this as a possible scenario but as the only eventuality. It’s going to happen, it’s got to happen, now maybe sooner than later. With Apple’s acquisition this week of LaLa, [...]

Dec 14 2009 | Posted in Business Models,featured | Read More »

Free Isn’t Working, What’s Next?

Share In April of 2006, I spoke in Hong Kong at the Nokia N Series launch. The focus of my talk, that music as a product was dead; the future of music was service-based. At the time, senior executives at EMI were outraged by my perspective. I still believe it’s the future, we have to [...]

Nov 19 2009 | Posted in Business Models,featured | Read More »

Mobile Music At The Crossroads

Share This past Monday, I moderated a panel at the Digital Hollywood conference in Santa Monica, California. The topic: Establishing the personalized mobile music experience. While the panelists didn’t reach any earth-shaking conclusions, it became clear that mobile is definitely the final link in the evolution of music’s transition from a product-based business model to [...]

Oct 21 2009 | Posted in featured,Mobile | Read More »

Supply And Demand in The Age Of Infinite Supply

Ted Cohen, questions the argument that if digital download prices were lowered, uptake and conversion of pirates to legal purchasing of tracks will increase.

Oct 7 2009 | Posted in Business Models,featured | Read More »

Lily Allen Steps Up

Share Hooray for Lily Allen, she had the guts to stand up and say enough is enough, “File-sharing’s not OK for British music. I want to get people working together to use new digital opportunities to encourage new artists.” Not since Metallica’s stance against Napster ten years ago has an artist so boldly stood up [...]

Sep 29 2009 | Posted in Digital,featured,Labels,Marketing | Read More »

The Funding Gap

Share MOG the music blog network, announced this past Thursday that they had secured $5 million dollars (U.S.) in new financing from Menlo Ventures and others, giving them a total raise of $12 million dollars. This is great news for MOG’s founder, David Hyman, and even better news for digital music start-ups around the world. [...]

Aug 31 2009 | Posted in Business Models | Read More »

Morality in the Digital Age

Share There has been a tremendous amount of debate following the Tennenbaum trial, most of around the perceived severity of the damages awarded by the jury. Many believed that the music industry was unfairly punishing Joel for what many saw as a minor offense, he shared a couple dozen songs on the Internet. What was [...]