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A Democratic Solution to File-Sharing
[The following post was written by Robin Millar, a guitarist, record producer, and musician mentor whose productions have sold over 55 million copies. It is an expanded version of a comment he made on U2 manager Paul McGuinness's recent article for British GQ, “How to Save the Music Industry"] I first organised a public meeting to ...
Behind the Blogs: Know the Music Biz
Welcome to version 2.0 of our series Behind the Blogs, in which we interview the bloggers and thinkers who are following the music business changes that affect us all. David Rose, the founder of Know the Music Biz, is big on community. A life-long music lover, Rose understands the importance of putting many heads together to ...
Billboard Names 10 Best Digital Music Startups
Rdio Named Digital Music Startup Of The Year This week's Billboard Magazine named their 10 Best Digital Music Startups of 2010 and the list includes some surprising choices. To learn more about how the process, we turned to Billboard Senior Editorial Analyst Glenn Peoples. Many Hypebot readers remember Peoples from his now dormant blog Coolfer How ...
epitonic.com Relaunches, Original Founders at Helm
Music editorial site Epitonic.com is being relaunched by its original founders. Established in 1999, the company sought out the create a destination where even the most geographically challenged fans could discover new artists. At its peak, Epitonic.com had hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors. However, the beloved site fell on hard times and was bought by ...
PayPal and Flattr: Making Micropayments Simpler
PayPal wants to make micropayments simpler. Instead of having users purchase chunks of credit up-front, soon, they will be able to buy inexpensive items and be billed once a higher amount is reached. Since users like to purchase things one-at-time, the company thinks that this will encourage more transactions overall. Previously, the associated costs with these ...
Survey: Music Streaming Decreases Filesharing, Increases Music Discovery
A survey conducted in Norway this June for Aspiro Music concluded that streaming services lead to more music listening as well as and increased and more diverse music discovery. Of the those surveyed that use streaming music services 68% listen to more music and 72% say they often find music they didn`t know about before. The ...
Apple Pulls Grooveshark iPhone App Following Universal Music Complaint
Following a complaint form Universal Music Group UK, Apple pulled down the recently approved Grooveshark iPhone app. The app had been receiving rave reviews, but Grooveshark only has licencing deals with EMI and a number of indies. In fact, Universal filed suit against Grooveshark in January and the takedown demand is believed to stem from that ...
Peter Sunde: The History of the Pirate Bay
This is a fascinating presentation by Peter Sunde, one of the original founders of The Pirate Bay. In the talk, Sunde gives a great overview of the website's eventful history, the debate on file-sharing, and hints at the cultural changes to come. The presentation is just shy of an hour long, but the whole thing it ...
Warner Bros Records Sued for Tracking Web Users
Last week, a lawsuit filed in federal court contended that Warner Bros Records website, among other well-known media properties, including Disney and their music site Playlist.com, have been secretly tracking online users, as well as children, by installing 'Flash cookies' on their computers, which quicky respawn after their deletion. The suit filed by attorneys representing a ...
1/5th Of American Adults Don't Use the Internet
Likely, they don't file-share songs either. Has their music consumption decreased? According to survey results released by Pew research center, documenting broadband adoption in America, one-fifth of adults don't use the internet. If I remember right, from a survey published last year, 50% of these people, without access to the web, are country music fans. What ...
