Tag: downloads
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Who’s really in control these days…
Record labels are going to have face up the fact that they’re brilliant at marketing and that is the only guaranteed role they may play in the future.
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Digital hits 20%
Why are 95% (allegedly) of music files being downloaded illegally because it’s easy. Legal downloading has to match that or get as close as is possible.
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EMI fiddling about
Not really a customer launch nor a testbed but kinda a bit of both and not taking on Amazon or iTunes. EMI’s latest digital initive has uncertainty written all over it. Some content will be free to download while others will have to be paid for. News on DRM or MP3 formatting has yet to […]
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Bye bye Napster
For $121 million, Best Buy in the US has snapped up Napster, which is considerably less than the money spent on it to cover legal cases, running costs and so on. While talking a good fight Napster has been sinking fast and even opening up to the iPod market has not turned things around yet. […]
Mike Hales 