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Jazzwax Mindblowers (Vol. 5)
If you're new to this blog, you should know that at the tail end of each quarter I provide a roundup of my favorite quotes from JazzWax interviews posted over the past three months. Between January and March 2009, I interviewed Jimmy Cobb, Sandie Shaw, Buddy De Franco, David Soyer, Helen Merrill, Phil Woods, Hal McKusick, ...
The Pirate Party Makes a Bid for the European Parliament
Activist Christian Engstrm looks more like a engineer than a buccaneer. But in June he'll be one of 20 candidates running for seats in the European Parliament under the skull-and-crossbones flag of the Swedish Pirate Party. “If politicians want to prevent ordinary citizens from sharing files, they will constantly have to expand their ability to monitor," ...
Google Launches Free, Legal Music Downloads in China
BEIJING Google on Monday launched free downloads of licensed songs in China, while sharing advertising revenue with major music labels in a market rife with online piracy. Lee Kai-Fu, president of Google in greater China, said one reason Google lagged in the mainland search market was because it did not offer music downloads, the missing piece ...
Giant Internet Worm Set to Change Tactics April 1
The fast-moving Conficker computer worm, a scourge of the Internet that has infected at least 3 million PCs, is set to spring to life in a new way on Wednesday April Fools' Day. That's when many of the poisoned machines will get more aggressive about “phoning home" to the worm's creators over the Internet. When that ...
MPAA Negotiates with ISPs to Disconnect or Penalize Copyright Offenders
Hollywood studios are negotiating with broadband providers to take action against customers caught downloading movies repeatedly. Penalties range from redirecting infringers' browsers to an anti-piracy message and disconnecting them entirely, a movie industry source familiar with the talks said Friday. The revelation came as the Recording Industry Association of America is talking with the same ISPs ...
Will Labels Use or Abuse iTunes Variable Pricing?
Following months of lobbying by the major labels, the iTunes store will add variable pricing on April 7th. Tracks will be priced at $.69, $.99 and $1.29. There”s been no official word as to which downloads will be sold as various price points, but presumably some older catalog will be reduced in price; ...
Why Are We Still Debating Free?
On Friday morning I dashed off a Daily DIY “Understanding The Value Of Free“ which urged indie artists to remember the power of sometimes giving their music away and included a year old clip of Wired's Chris Andersen whose book on “Free" comes out in July. Almost instantly, a flurry of comments began that keep on ...
Mobile Music Gaining Fans Says New Study
A new KPMG and Mobile Entertainment Forum study shows that three quarters of US consumers are happy with their experience downloading and listening to songs on their mobile phone. 21% of the U.S. respondents and 30% globally have purchased songs at least once on their phones in the past year. 84% of US and 66% of ...
Are the Major Labels Killing imeem?
Late last year, rumors began circulating that imeem was in trouble. Ad revenue simply wasn't meeting the projections needed to pay labels the per stream rates agreed to. It was said that imeem was burning through the cash that Sequoia and Warner Music had given them at a rapid rate. Then the company began openly searching ...
Thruyou Mashup Turns Youtube into Funk Machine
Five years ago he'd never heard of the “godfather of soul," James Brown. Now an Israeli mashup artist is basking in the spotlight after making the funkiest tracks on the internet, using YouTube clips of musicians who've never met each other. Earlier this month, Ophir Kutiel, aka Kutiman, released seven videos made by mixing and matching ...
