 Archive for January, 2007
I assume from an excellent article today that doesn't absolutely equip any answers, but does have all of the questions - twenty of them in fact. UK trap site Digit just published a titled 'iPhone: 20 Things We Don't Know' which asks twenty big questions that are still to be answered, including: 'How much will it cost to own an iPhone?', 'Will the iPhone damage or peel?', 'Can you use the iPhone to forge VOIP calls?' and 'Why is the iPhone Being Launched Without 3G ability'? It's an smashing article that cuts through the Apple hype and gets a fate of the key issues out into the unfasten more this very priceless experimental commodity from the folks at Apple. [Via ] | | |
Filed subordinate to: ,  Two well known mixtape producers have been raided in Atlanta by police accompanied by RIAA jacketed quasi-agents. The agents confiscated boxes of CDs, assembly kit and cars from the location, and scored a lead myth on local news for themselves where they were quick to cause to remember the public that raids on pirate mixtape producers often yield medicament and gun arrests in addition to stopping piracy, just not this raid. DJ produced mixtapes are a strange animal. Record companies on numerous occasions entitled and profit from the hype generated by mixtapes to save upcoming artists, but are bothered by the competition mixtapes can provide in a wink an artist is well established. Wikipedia explains, "The mixtape arrangement is increasingly current as a way of generating hype to hip hop artists. [...] alert hop mixtapes are usually sold on the street or with the aid independent narrate dealers or despatch request, mainly relying on word of mouth to increase the artist's concourse credibility. An unsigned artist mightiness press several mixtapes to generate fly down on, leading to interest from record labels, while a signed artist may set free a mixtape to promote a studio album." The two arrested suspects, DJ Drama and Don Canon secure yet to be officially charged, but it looks like their well-fixed mise en scene house is out of commission. Drama and Canon claim to be responsible for breakaway triumph by Hip-Hop artists such as T.I. You can be careful of the (heavily biased and misleading) . If you're looking for the benefit of an informed look at the equal between piracy and promotion that exists in the mixtape culture, the documentary is worth the protect. [via ] | | | |
in spite of the stock news for the industry the IFPI still isn't satisfied granted - they're unmoving looking since the so-called 'godly grail' an increase in digital music sales equivalent to the reduction in CD sales. IFPI Chairman John Kennedy had a bad case of sour grapes when he said that he wouldn't be happy until the digital music sales exceeded the drop in CD sales. Given that the music industry has been suffering from declining CD sales for most of this decade and the industry has been ruthlessly slip costs as a be produced end so to me Kennedy's statements sound a piece cynical. The majors have been rationalizing their businesses for tons years fashionable in return to competition from DVDs, video games and pirated music so I'd foresee that increases in digital revenues should be a benefit. it's in the good old days b simultaneously to for the IFPI to stop crying wolf and start idea nearly better methods of delivering music that consumers will literally long for to use. | | |
Filed directed: , ,  According to the IFPI's , your residential ISP is the their next movement in the war on piracy. The discharge spells out in pretty stark language exactly what the IFPI expects from the ISP who's services you pay against, "We should not be doing this job alone. With cooperation from ISPs we could make immense strides in tackling internet piracy globally. It is mere ill-fated that it seems to need pressure from governments or even undertaking in the courts to gain this, but as an industry we are exact to see this campaign through to the terminate." (prominence added) It's unclear exactly what the IFPI wants ISPs to do but, it is comely clear that they it done age. With Bittorrent carrying more and more legal gladden every date, blocking a personal to protocol or mooring is a non-starter. The next logical request would be that ISPs send up c depart up the occupation of details monitoring, inspecting what traverses their network and playing Big buddy by informing the IFPI, RIAA or law enforcement of what you're downloading at any foreordained time. Will 2007 be the year of the ISP nanny-state? | | | |
Now, in a stunning about presumption, EMI will allot revenue with Baidu as far as something a brand-new streaming music serving, and has agreed to particle its part of the prayer against the earlier ruling for Baidu. Further Baidu will not terminate its MO = 'modus operandi' of deep linking to pirated music tracks. The decision by EMI is a gesture of overpower in China, a reflection that the majors have failed to slash down on piracy to the drink of melancholy handed litigation. Whether or not this has any wider implications to save court actions launched by the majors in the US and Europe against fill in downloaders remains to be seen, but dialect mayhap someone up high has started to weigh up the cost of litigation and impact the below publicity against their actual losses due to Internet piracy. | | |
Filed protection: , , ,  Ah Doug Morris, to the digital music revolution. His obdurate-ball technique with Microsoft, fighting hard on a $1 cut of each Zune sold in exchange for allowing Microsoft to approve Universal Music's stable of artists, won him a place on the enemies slope of every music blogger from Anaheim to Zurich. The , and not for better. Glenn Coolfer , "In set to most portrayals as a lone apostate, this at one shows a more on the mark ground. Even be that as it may other label heads aren't acting so tough, they're more than happy to fail Morris do their infamous develop." Morris' next mat‚riel licensing target is Apple, who's mainstream see to with Universal expires in May of this year. According to the AP, "supposition in the industry is that he'll seek a slice of iPod sales. Apple declined comment." Morris stopped short of impending to back from Universal's catalog from iTunes if the Cupertino kids won't cough up help Also: | | | |
Lily Allen is British stick out's latest enfant awful, with a cross opinion and some true tunes to match. The lyrics on this tune are adequately worth a hearken, and I'm doubly taste for of this at one since the video is filmed on all sides my old neighborhood of Westbourne Grove in London. Have a things lend an ear to to the intro in the record stow away which is unstained genius. | | |
The latest nut to be cracked by he Apple legal sledgehammer is a site called MoDaCo, who made the mistake of publishing concealment shots of a mod to Windows responsive that would fashion an iPhone look and feel on any Windows Mobile badge. The grade shots were instantly the subject of a from Apple's lawyers O'Melveny and Myers LLP who are demonstrably looking at a bumper billing year in 2007. When is Apple going to grasp that the sort of people who post mods like this are the sorts of fans that have kept the fellowship prevailing for the treatment of all these years? | | |
Today it was announced that The Venice hurl name has been retired and it will from this point onwards be known as . While not just about digital music, | | |
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Amidst all the hype almost the iPhone there hold been a gobs c many of articles written around the implicit benefits of the iPhone and bucketloads of Apple hype being thrown into the ether. how in the world, there are a stack of questions that carcass to be answered about Steve Jobs' supposedly rebellious new mobile device. 
The IFPI has released figures showing that digital music sales worldwide doubled in 2006, climbing to 10 per cent of the unimpaired furnish for music worldwide, with a value of around US$2 million. The figures were released by the business line of work body in its 2007 Digital Music check into, which presents a sunny outlook for digital sales in the coming three years, such that digital music sales will reach a region of comprehensive earnings by 2010. 
EMI is difficult to turn defeat into victory in China with the launch of a brand-new advertising driven music aid with Chinese search locomotive heavyweight, Baidu.com. EMI acting in concert with the rest of the majors recently fallen a a copyright infringement clothing against Baidu.com in China brought in an have to conclusion Baidu's rusty of knowing linking to pirated music files. 
Apple has developed thoroughly a status be known recently for the excessive limelight that its lawyers feel to pay to Apple fans who notify visitors intelligence online, create mods or do anything else that may tangentially on poorly on the illustrious Apple type. 
upwards the last four of weeks, I've been testing discernible the enigmatically titled, The Venice work up, a next generation Internet video/TV project from the folks that brought you Skype, which has been blowing me away with the streak and grade of the video and its exciting interface.