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Updated: Harvard Law Rides to Rescue of Parents Whose Son Shared 7 Songs on Kazaa
POST-TRIAL UPDATE FROM THE STUDENTS: “Today's hearing was just rescheduled for Jan 6 due to pro hac vice issues. So basically, the hearing was rescheduled because Professor Charles Nesson is not admitted to argue in a RI court, further underscoring the injustice caused by the powerful Goliath infrastructure behind the RIAA against the small David defendants."
Kid Rock and Ac/DC Rank 3,4 in 2008 Despite Anti-Digital Stance
Nielsen SoundScan reports show that Kid Rock's “Rock N Roll Jesus" was the third best selling album of the year in the U.S. as of the beginning of December. The release was CD only until nearly a year after its release, when Rhapsody grabbed exclusive digital rights where its sold only 3,000 digital copies so far. ...
Is iTunes the Evolution of Music? Maybe Not
It's been more than five years since Apple's iTunes store changed music retail by introducing single-track digital downloads. But it wasn't until 2008 that most musicians and labels started to wonder out loud whether selling music by the track is good for their bottom lines. Two of the year's biggest rock acts, AC/DC and Kid Rock, ...
Delta Rolls out Wi-Fi in Select Flights
Delta Air Lines is finally getting on board with modern technology, one baby step at a time. The Atlanta-based company announced today that it will begin rolling out Wi-Fi on select flights, beginning with small shuttle flights between Reagan National Airport in Washington, LaGuardia in New York, and Logan in Boston. The Washington Post points out, ...
Startup Banks on Making Money from Free Broadband
For the past three years, a startup called M2Z Networks has been figuring out a way to blanket the nation with a free wireless broadband network to ensure all Americans have access to basic high-speed Internet connections. Along the way, the company has found support in powerful corners of Silicon Valley and Washington. It has attracted ...
Steinway Music System Delivers for Audiophiles Who Have It All
Music nuts lust after spatial sound: output so precise you can pinpoint each instrument's location in the recording hall. Well, the room-size Model C isn't just spatial, it's intergalactic. We dare you to listen to this integrated CD player, amplifier, and speaker symphony without jumping up to conduct. While most speakers are sealed boxes, Steinway's engineers ...
Disc Shelf: A Place to Release Albums Online
Recently a service for musicians was opened. The service is called Disc Shelf and allows musicians to upload their music and present it to their listeners in form of albums: singles, EPs, LPs, promo discs and WIPs (work in progress). Each album receives a unique URL for distribution. The whole idea of the project is to ...
Paolo Olivi, madonnatribe.com: Artists, Fans, and Web 2.0
In this guest post, MidemNet speaker Paolo Olivi, founder of fansite MadonnaTribe.com, explains how, from fanzines to web communities, fans have always led the way… Once upon a time, we used to call them fanclubs. In most cases, an official artist’s fanclub was able to reach fans on a national or international basis, while fan-managed associations ...
Ted Cohen: It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Best of Times
This year's Midemnet marks our tenth anniversary, and what an amazing time we've been privileged to observe. The early pioneers: Napster, Liquid Audio, MP3.com, Rioport, Rhapsody, Soundbuzz, Musiwave, OD2, Melon, Puretracks, the next generation: Kazaa, Pandora, iTunes, and Limewire, and the newcomers: Amazon MP3, Omnifone, Nokia's Comes With Music and EchoNest. These innovative ventures have changed ...
Creating, Serving and Monetising the Artist-Fan Relationship...
...such is the theme of MidemNet 2009, whose full programme is now avaliable here. With recorded music sales still declining and attention the new currency, the artist-fan relationship is increasingly where the music industry's true value lies. Record companies are no longer CD-sellers but managers of the entire experience between their artists - now brands - ...
