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David Maher Roberts – Sounds Digital Insider
David Maher Roberts shares his insights with us in this first post in our Sounds Digital Insiders – a series of interviews with each of the Sounds Digital International Mentors.
You can read more about David and his depth of experience here
1. What is your history in digital music?
CEO of The Filter since September 2007. The [...]
Is Too Much Speculation Clouding the Industry’s Judgment on Streaming?
At a presentation at the Digital Music Forum in New York, analyst Russ Crupnick discussed findings on an NPD report on the industry, specifically noting that P2P sharing is on the decline but so are music buyers. On top of a 25 percent decline in illegal downloads in the US during 2009 the NPD also [...]
Buzz makes it easy to share a little too much
I love the openness of Americans. It’s endearing, although it can mean listening to an extraordinary amount of information about someone for a first meeting. This can be uncomfortable when the conversation seems to have no context for such openness. In these encounters, it becomes clear that, unlike Brits, many Americans value sharing over privacy.
Facebook [...]
Will A Revamped Attitude Make Users Reconsider MySpace?
First reported by TechCrunch and later confirmed by Billboard, MySpace’s new slogan is “Discover and be Discovered”. The strategy was reportedly revealed to employees during a meeting last week at the Los Angeles HQ. The meeting, attended by some 600 employees as well as being broadcast to other offices, was most likely a move to [...]
Copyright Is So Damn Annoying!
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 the [...]
Musicblogocide 2010: How Doing Right Can Come Off So Wrong
This past week has been an abomination in PR for Google, starting with privacy upheaval in terms of Google Buzz’s automatic stalking…err following feature that added people you frequently IM and email without consent. Then came news that Google blog service Blogger deleted six of the biggest music blogs on its service, including their [...]
Australian Court: ISPS are NOT Liable For File-Sharing – Despite Reports That Music Will Save Them Millions In Customer Churn
So my home country’s judiciary in Australia has seemingly dealt a large blow to the content industry in terms of ISPs not taking responsibility for their customer’s illegal activity. Despite “three strikes” laws being formed in other markets including, New Zealand, UK and France it appears they’ve been let of the hook down under.
34 film [...]
R-O-C-K In The USA—ISP’S START SINGING ALONG
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 the lost receipts of the [...]
“The Google Tax”: Can Cultural Pluralism Be Saved By The Advertising Algorithm?
This past week has been focusing on France, one of the most controversial and aggressive governments in terms of music piracy. First, the Three-Strikes HADOPI Law that was supposed to come to fruition on 1st January was reported to experience setbacks in terms of the country’s privacy watchdog. The Commission nationale de l’informatique et des [...]
Killing In The Name…Is This The Downward Spiral of “Monopolostic Pop”?
As you’ve no doubt heard the facebook campaign started by music fans Jon and Tracey Morter has been successful. Rage Against The Machines aptly titled “Killing In The Name” is the official UK number Christmas Single. So a viral campaign started by real music fans finally topples the X Factor monopoly for the previous four [...]
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Billboard.biz- HMV, Orange Partner On Mobile Gaming March 19, 2010
- Viacom, Google Accuse Other Of YouTube Hypocrisy March 19, 2010
- Comes With Music To Launch In India March 19, 2010
- Google May Announce China Plans Monday: Report March 19, 2010
- Business Matters: No Good TV, The Key To Successful Mobile Apps and More March 19, 2010
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- Telmap and BlueSky Positioning collaborate to integrate real-time location-based and navigation services into A-GPS SIM March 18, 2010
- Facebook's first soap opera launches March 18, 2010
- Whitevector Releases New Online Discussion Based Data About Websites March 18, 2010
- Smartphones Launches College Basketball Bracket Challenge App March 17, 2010
- Technosummits' Media Content World Summit London 31st March 2010 To Debate Telco VoD or Internet Video March 17, 2010
Peter Sunde, one of the founders and former spokesperson of BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay, recently debuted a new venture…one that will actually make content owners money instead of bleeding them dry. The project is in the form of a service, called Flattr (get it, like flattering?) that aims to...
Music Industry Payments Strategy 2010: something tedious and strenuous, or something built upon inner drive and desire?...