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4 Reasons Why Fans Are File-Sharing Your Music (That You Can Change...)
(UPDATED) If you follow the arguments surrounding file-sharing close enough you'd assume that file-sharers are the kind of moral lacking scum of the Earth that would consider pushing their own grandma into moving traffic or, that on the weekends, they shoplift from Best Buy and are slowly working up the confidence to start robbing banks. Of ...
Nielson Clarifies Digital Sales Report
After a stating last week that U.S. digital sales we're flat, Nielson is now clarifying their findings. “The initial Nielsen analysis was focussed exclusively on digital single sales and did not look at the strong growth in digital albums, which we expect to continue. Or, the impact variable pricing for singles has had on increasing industry ...
"Free Music is Always Going to Win," Says Lee Parsons, CEO of Ditto Music; Interview Part 1
Recently, I spoke with Lee Parsons, who is currently the CEO of Ditto Music. As of midsummer, they were distributing around 12,000 artists online and had 7 UK top 40 singles with unsigned artists. In this interview Parsons talks about the record industry's attitudes toward technology, why labels have trouble seeing value in disrupts their core-business ...
BT Digital Awards Best for Music Discovery, Promotion, Music Blog, App, Site and More
At last night's BT Digital Music Awards in London, one of the few awards that honors musicians as well as the digital media and technology sectors, Songkick, iTunes, YouTube, BBC Introducing, Gorillaz and Muse were among the big winners. 2010 BT Digital Music Award Winners: Best Innovation or Gadget BandCentral BuzzDeck Pledge Music Songkick SoundCloud SoundOut ...
Anonymous Wishes the RIAA Would 'Go the F**k Away Altogether' and 'Remove the Barbaric Laws'
In an interview with Panda Labs, a member from Anonymous, the group behind the attacks that forced the RIAA and MPAA sites offine, clarified their position in the file-sharing debates. First and foremost, they're advocates for piracy. That we knew. However, they don't view file-sharing to be solely a means through which they gain obtain movies, ...
Unprofitable Vevo Has "10's of Millions" in Revenue
Vevo's revenue is in the “tens of millions," collected through sponsorships and advertising, but the site is still not profitable, CEO Rio Caraeff told an audience at TechCrunch Disrupt yesterday. “Vevo is an experiment on a grand scale," according to Careff, with more than 50% of revenue passed on to the labels and artists. “We've proven ...
The First Ipad Street Musician?
Well, this is a case of 'it was bound to happen.' Yet the idea of a street musician playing a sitar on an iPad is still very intriguing. According to Alex Shpil, the publisher of the video, she used the Seline HD app and was also recording the sound using binaural microphones. Does the fact that ...
A New Age of Extremes: Why the Social Media Hype Machine Kills What It Creates Too
Are file-sharers killing the careers of artists that the record and music industries create? Or, are we? We—broadly defined as the social media hype machine that we've played our part in fueling—both as professionals and fans. It's as if our society has ventured into a new age of extremes. The traditional music consumption system is running ...
Giga Tools Launches, a New Event Management Tool; 25 Free Accounts Offered to Hypebot Readers
GigaTools is a promotional tool for DJ's, musicians, record labels and booking agents to manage, promote and share their event schedules online. Artists can integrate their events schedule with any number of sites and social networks. Management and agents can maintain multiple schedules for their roster in one interface and ensure that all upcoming events are ...
Justin Timberlake Says He Would've File-Shared Too
At a time when the RIAA and other trade organizations are trying their damnedest to disrupt the culture of file-sharing and persuade teenagers and college students alike to feel guilty for downloading music off the web, one of the most famous pop stars of this generation has sided with the fans. In an interview segment that ...
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