Share The music industry is battling to stop piracy through Russia’s largest social network so that it can turn the country from a digital backwater in to a top music market. vKontakte, which is often called a Facebook copycat for its similar features and design, includes built-in file sharing. In a case brought by one [...]
Share Howdy folks a great infographic on a day in the internet. If you scroll down some interesting facts about Pandora and if it were streaming from 2000 years ago…happy viewing. TMV would like to thank www.mbaonline.com for sharing this infographic with TMV. Created by: MBAOnline.com
Chris Barton of the New Zealand Herald analyzes the battle between corporate interests and the internet
Share Just glancing upon the Nasdaq share prices yesterday it seems very apparent that investor confidence in the traditional music business is very low. Live Nation (NASDAQ: LYV) is not profitable and its shares have hovered around the $7 mark for a few years. I’ve been told when it does pay a dividend it has [...]
Share Firstly, TMV and myself would like to apologize for having no choice but to publish this post. This decision was not made lightly. Basically, a company has made numerous and baseless defamatory accusations against both TMV and myself. This particular company (X | Media | Lab (XML) is a Singapore-based company whose founders are [...]
Share The below is a copy of a letter sent to both X | Media | Lab (XML) and Brendan Harkin via email and registered post on 21st May 2010. Despite this our legal representatives have had no response from either Brendan Harkin or XML for more than a year. Instead all TMV and myself [...]
Share ABOUT THE MASHUP: I literally “put this together” on April 15, 2011 while in Palm Springs and hoping to get cleared for a press pass to the Coachella Music and Arts Festival. The press pass never worked out, but this mashup seems to have. It was assembled while staying in Palm Springs at the [...]
Share The business practices of Qtrax and its CEO Allan Klepfisz have created a long paper trail in the US courts. Among the many lawsuits and judgments that have lodged against the company and the CEO personally is a famously $1.8 million check that was bounced on Oracle. Now that takes chutzpah! However there are [...]
Share Imagine you’re on a conference call, and the senior exec on the other end is extolling the importance of cost cutting on all concert operation and production elements, especially for those shows losing money. You are told “feed them fucking Cornflakes for breakfast”. The directive is to cut costs wherever possible and refers to [...]
Share I have to admit that the Grammy telecast for the last couple of years has been pretty good, in spite of some occasional over the top production numbers. I spent a lot of time yesterday on the phone with industry friends deconstructing the show, and came up with a list of who benefited the [...]
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