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Article | 11/02/2009
How Will $99 iPhone Impact Phone, Music Businesses?
The Apple iPhone has been a game changer since day one. So it's to be expected that the phone would transform the competitive landscape if it were to ...
Article | 11/02/2009
Can the New York Times become like the iTunes Store?
"More than half the students in my Yale journalism seminar volunteered recently that they thought the Times was a non-profit institution!" writes jour...
Article | 27/01/2009
Microsoft Songsmith: bad music made easy
It's been a big year for software products designed to dumb down the process of making music for entertainment purposes.
Article | 12/01/2009
Nine Inch Nails: the first open-source band?
Throughout his 20+ year career as the man behind industrial-rock act Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor has been no stranger to the ways of Creative Common...
Article | 9/10/2008
Drop that DVD-copying software and put your hands up
More bad news for fans of the "I bought it, I own it, I can do what I want with it" approach to living.
Article | 6/08/2008
New FireWire spec is good to go, go go
Recently the 1394 Trade Association approved the FireWire S1600 and S3200 formats, with the final spec to be published in October.
Article | 16/05/2008
RIAA participates in file swapping to nab sharers
In a private demonstration with The Chronicle, a representative from the Recording Industry Association of America explained the simplicity of nabbing...
Article | 10/04/2008
Adobe courts IPTV with media player
I've been playing around with the new Adobe Media Player (AMP), which made its way out of Adobe Labs to receive a formal 1.0 release Wednesday. It's a...
Article | 4/04/2008
Internet music tax, a bad idea
In the IT world it is amazing how often you'll be presented with an idea that sounds good, seems reasonable and appears to fix a problem but in realit...
Article | 19/03/2008
Mud Flies Over Radiohead's Online Release of In Rainbows
Mud between Nine Inch Nails frontman, Trent Reznor, and Radiohead has begun to fly over Internet music distribution.
Article | 19/03/2008
Free VST Plugins Can Make Your Music Sound Retro!
For electronic musicians using computer-based production software, like Cubase, FL Studio, or Ableton, VST plugins are the way to make your music soun...
Article | 19/03/2008
Beatles Music Inching Ever Closer to iTunes
It's been almost two years since we first reported that the Beatles were digitally remastering their music catalogue in anticipation of making it avai...
Article | 5/03/2008
Are Music CDs Already Passe?
Are plastic music CDs destined to join vinyl records as obsolete? Perhaps they already have.
Article | 5/03/2008
Nine Inch Nails Gets Online Music Right
Nine Inch Nails has surprised the music industry by coming out of nowhere with a new album release with a different variety of online purchasing optio...
Article | 4/03/2008
DRM: a slow clue train?
Random House is the latest major content owner to start to think that maybe not all of its customers are crooks.
Article | 13/02/2008
Steve Jobs, Slayer of DRM
Courtesy of Mac Rumours comes this memo from Steve Jobs on FairPlay, the Digital Rights Management (DRM) anti-piracy technology with which Apple encod...
Article | 13/02/2008
Blog chatter can triple music sales
Do bloggers matter? Yes, a new study suggests bloggers really can be influential regarding buying decisions and reputation (which explains why PR prof...
Article | 28/12/2007
Dilbert, the DMCA and the Internet bubble video
Radiohead recently rocked the music industry by making its latest album downloadable for free, or more accurately, for "whatever fans wanted to pay." ...
Article | 17/12/2007
I'm so bo-o-o-red with the RIAA (but what can I do?)
So, just to be clear. We're all thieves here, right?
