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The Fine for File-Swapping in Sweden: $7
The RIAA is still bashing American file-sharers over their heads with outrageous fines. Yet Sweden is now treating the matter like a parking ticket, if that. Just recently, a twenty-somethingfile-swapper received a 2,000 Swedish krona fine—roughly $311—for downloading 44 songs. That translates into about $7 per swap, a slap on wrist if it ever existed. So, ...
Seattle Musicians Launch Record Label Devoted to New Music
February 21, 2011 (Seattle, WA)—The new musician-founded record label Table & Chairs is holding its label launch celebration at Seattle's Q Cafe at 7pm on March 12th, 2011. Admission is $10 at the door, which includes refreshments by chef Sarah Farr. The launch celebration will feature Table & Chairs artists Friendly Creature, Smallface, Kristian Garrard, Neil ...
Will Apple Back Down from 30% Charge?
From publishers to music subscription providers, everyone is still reeling from the “Apple Tax"—i.e. the 30% cut of profits that Apple will take when users subscribe to content and services in app. Some argue that Apple will respond to the negative reaction in the market and back down. Others believe that Apple's announcement shows that publishers ...
Adjust for Inflation and Decline in Music Sales Looks Worse Than We Thought
There were all kinds of questions and comments about a chart published last week that offered “A Graphic Look At 25 Years Of Music Sales." Some of the controversy around the chart is answered with a new infographic that adjust music sales for inflation. The resulting snapshot is even uglier. According to the new chart, music ...
$17.5 Million Later, Rdio's Complaining About Apple Percentages...
Add Rdio to the list of Apple haters, but do the rules change for the rich kid? Just ahead of the weekend, Rdio CEO Drew Larner joined the highly-vocal protest against upcoming subscription app fees. “I would echo what the heads of some of my competing companies have said," Larner told paidContent. “From a financial standpoint, ...
2 Out of 4 - Spotify Signs U.S. Deal with EMI
Reports reveal that Spotify finalized a U.S. distribution deal with EMI Music. This gives the company approval from two of the big four major labels. Sony closed a deal with Spotify last month. While Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman has changed his tune about Spotify, it doesn't mean they'll sign on. So too, Spotify still needs ...
Redigi Says They'll Sell Your Used MP3's Legally
Startup ReDigi will be opening “the world's first online marketplace to legally recycle, buy and sell, used digital music files" this summer. On the ReDigi Marketplace, music “owners" can “manage their music libraries by selling their unwanted digital music, or purchasing the music they do want, at drastically discounted prices." Exactly how ReDigi will identify ownership ...
Rdio CEO Says New Apple Tax Makes It "Untenable" for Them to Exist on Ios Devices
One by one, executives behind leading subscription music companies are speaking out against the new Apple Tax. CEO Steve Jobs has made it clear that when Apple brings new subscribers to apps he expects them to let Apple handle the billing process and for providing that service, he believes his company is entitled to a 30% ...
A Graphic Look at 25 Years of Music Sales
There's something particularly sad about this chart. Whatever the format-track, LP, cassette, CD—every one has its day and then sales decline as it is replaced by new formats. Then in 2005 comes digital music, which according to the stats from the RIAA as interpreted by Bain show how, for the first time in 25 years, a ...
The Friday Morning Listen
Wait, you're thinking...that's not Justin Bieber...it's Esperanza Spalding! Yeah, I just couldn't resist a little GrammySmugness2011 ...except that I'm really listening to Pizzicato Five! I've been thinking about this year's Grammy awards. Specifically, the “shock" of jazz bassist/singer Esperanza Spalding receiving the award for Best New Artist. I was certainly shocked, especially when thinking back to ...
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