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The Rise and Fall of the Hit   |  The era of the blockbuster is so over. The niche is now king, and the entertainment industry – from music to movies to TV – will never be the same. | Wired  |

Moby Gives His Music Away to Indie Filmmakers  |  triggerstreet.com —   |  Musician Moby has become the latest artist to give away tracks for free, but not to just anybody... he's showing some love to independent filmmakers, letting indie, student and non-profit filmmakers use select songs for free  |

Oink Users Recall Defunct Song-Swap Site's Strange, Stringent Rules  |  Wired  |

Zune users to be paid for sharing songs?  -  by Steve O'Hear (editor)  |  Last 100.com  |

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What Price Did You Choose? The Radiohead In Rainbows Survey   |

Zune users to be paid for sharing songs?  -  by Steve O'Hear (editor)  |  Last 100.com  |

Radiohead has probably made close to $10 million in one week "selling" In Rainbows  |  That's more than their last three releases combined.  - TheSeminal

Free Music Now! Lala.com's Plan to Give Songs Away Could Upend the Industry  |  Wired  |

Our entitlement mentality: An artist's perspective on music piracy  |  Puddlegun.net

Imeem Pioneers Free Music With Ads  |  By Saul Hansell   -  NY Times

C/NET
Ad-supported SpiralFrog finally launches music site  |  More than seven months behind its launch date, the once-heralded start-up overcomes internal strife and is finally ready to battle
file sharing  |

Telegraph
EMI warning on internet music  |  "The industry must brace itself for change and wean itself off its dependence on CD sales, the new owner of music giant EMI has warned"  |

BusinessWeek
The Big Record Labels' Not-So-Big Future  |

C/NET
Add Oasis to the list of bands considering music giveaway  |

Telegraph
Oasis, Jamiroquai to follow Radiohead  |

NY Times
Radiohead’s Warm Glow  |

ArsTechnica
Universal prepping revolutionary free music service  |

The Future Of Music
The End of Control  |

PC World
Universal Takes Aim at iTunes; Can "Free" Music Work?  |

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Free BBC content online  |

Off the record'
The market for CDs has collapsed, and not even the rise of legal downloading can offset the damage to record companies.  |

michaelgeist.ca
Canada's RIAA admits downloading is legal    |

last100.com
Winamp Goes Where iTunes Doesn't Dare  |   — Winamp 5.5 (Beta) sports two new and potentially controversial features: support for mp3 blogs and the ability to stream your music
collection over the Internet  |
 

Coolfer  - Universal Music Group to Sell USB Singles  |  The last we heard about USB drives was HMV's plans to include the storage devices in its renovated retail stores. Today I saw an article that said Universal Music Group is going to release upcoming U.K. singles by Keane and Pussycat Dolls on USB memory sticks
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...Record Industry's Survival In The Digital Age Musicdish
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...Magnatune an Open Choice, iTunes an Expensive Choice MagPortal.com
...Magnatune is not only an independent, on-line record label, but also a company that wants to change how 
   music is distributed and open up possibilities for less-known bands and artists
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...Digital Freedom Wired
...Bill Would Require Taxpayers to Pay $100 Billion for Students' Music Subscriptions
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...Interview: Peter Rojas of RCRD LBL Wired
...RCRD LBL  |  RCRD LBL Solves the Free Music Riddle
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...Universal CEO Doug Morris: Major Labels Clueless about Technology Wired
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...CD Sales Down 27 Percent in October; Floor Space Shrinking Wired
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...The Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America PC World
...These groups line up against tech interests in courtrooms and corridors of power across the country.
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...Global Licensing: One Possible Stage in the Major Labels' Implosion Wired
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Telegraph
EMI warning on internet music  |  "The industry must brace itself for change and wean itself off its dependence on CD sales, the new owner of music giant EMI has warned"  |

BusinessWeek
The Big Record Labels' Not-So-Big Future  |

YahooNews
Don Was offers free music via Web series  |

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Free Music Site Attracts Wrath of Industry  |  "The cofounder of a Web site that offers free streamed music from top artists said he's determined to operate his service legally despite menacing overtures from Universal Music Group"  -  Deezer.com  |

Wired  |   Giving away records for free packs stadiums for your concerts. Prince shows the industry what music's all about.  |

Shoutcast   |  Free MP3s from Over 900 SXSW Festival Bands Available  |

Bit Torrent  |  BitTorrent Inc. Introduces Ad-Supported Downloads  |  ""BitTorrent Inc. is experimenting with alternatives to paid downloads on their Entertainment Network, and is now experimenting with advertising supported downloads"  |

TimesOnline, UK
The day the music industry died  |  "There is no money in recorded music any more, that’s why bands are now giving it away"  |

Off the record'
The market for CDs has collapsed, and not even the rise of legal downloading can offset the damage to record companies.  |

The Register  |  Your song's in the cloud  |  Mercora looks to the skies

NY Times  |  New Weapon in Web War Over Piracy  |  Content-recognition software could address a major entertainment industry concern  |  songs and videos being posted on the Web without permission.

ksoftware.net  |  PandoraBrowse - Gets Music Out of Your Way

ZDnet  |  Microsoft fights "music of mass destruction"

Wired  |  Bram Cohen on BitTorrent's Future  |  Rumor has it he's leaving the company he co-founded -- just as BitTorrent lands big distribution deals with Hollywood. Can the rumors about Bram Cohen be true? What's in store for online file-sharing? Michael Calore snags an exclusive interview

Techdirt  |  DRM Crackers Make Yahoo And Napster's Music Services All The More Useful

Teens Don't Think CD Copying is a Crime  |  SlashDot.org

FT.comUniversal Music, the world’s largest music company, is backing a start-up that will allow consumers to download songs for free. It will rely on advertising for its revenues, offering a different business model from that of Apple Computer’s popular iTunes music store.

Gigasize is new on the block, but compared to sites like Rapidshare and Megaupload, it is light years ahead. Without signing up, you can host files up to 1 gigabyte, or sign up to host huge 1.5 gigabyte files. Could sites like this kill P2P networks?

CacheLogic And BitTorrent Announce Strategic Partnership To Advance The Adoption Of Peer-assisted Content Delivery / Mi2N

Napster founder commerce enables unprotected MP3s on MySpace / ZDnet Blogs

Digital Music: Rent Or Own? / InformationWeek

Mi2N  |  Baugh Entertainment Announces The Label's First Digital Downloads

ZDnet  |  Universal Music hopes better jewel cases will bolster CD sales?

Digg  | Comparison of Legal Music Downloads  |  "TechCrunch compares iTunes and its competitors."  |

MagPortal  |  My Digital Domain  |   I'm looking forward to being able to move music and video throughout my house wirelessly.

MagPortal  |  Now Showing on Small Screens  |  Technology is poised to change TV and movies in the same way as online music stores and digital music players have rewritten the rules for music distribution.

Digg  |  YOU can help stop the RIAA.  |  Take a Stand Against the Madness. Sign the EFF's petition to congress in protest of the RIAA bullying customers. They only need another 20,000 signatures.

Hey, Hey, It's Michael Nesmith  |  The Monkees catapulted him to stardom, but he's come a long way, baby. The Grammy-winning film producer and musician who invented MTV talks about digital music, MySpace and corporate media.  |  Wired News interview by Jason Silverman.

ArsTechnica  |  Napster now offering free music again  |  In a bid to bolster the image of its music subscription service and lure new subscribers, Napster is returning to the days of yore by offering free music. But as you might expect, there's a catch.

MagPortal  |  Fast Talk: Sounds of the Future  |  Digital music is a many-splendored thing - and it's more than just the iPod. Everyone from major labels to individual artists is experimenting. What's next - and why is Madonna sure to be a part of it?

MagPortal  |  Tuning In?  |  The used-digital-music market could be fertile ground for pioneering entrepreneurs.

Euclid Discoveries has announced they have the technology to reach video compression rates at 460% over MPEG-4, with the hardware & software available now. With this they can reduce a 23mb 30fps video down to 1519bytes. Awesome!  |  From Digg  |

TechCrunch  |  Subscription Music Services Compared: Part 2

Digg  |  Podcast study shows current and future trends  |

MagPortal  |  Music's Mixed Messages  |  Digital downloading of music -  the legal way -- continues to gain momentum. The rapidly growing market for digital music underlines why so many companies are eyeing Apple's success and hoping to get their piece of the market.

Most Expensive.net  |  MP3 Player

Digg  |  Audiri  |  Stopping the RIAA by putting music distribution back in the artists hands  |  Find Music by Genre  |  Musicians often make less than 5% off of CD sales, a new site is helping musicians sell their music in a setup similar to iTunes without looking 95%. The site is also a great resource for free music and music videos. The best part is it costs the artist nothing to sign up

Digg  |  15,000+ songs & music videos free   |  A new site is letting smaller bands actually get their music out there. (200MB's worth at least) The powerful search function lets you find music you have never heard that fits your taste and is actually good. The amount of music on the site has gone up by 150% in the last month.

Digg  |  XM Speaks to Artists in the Fight Against the RIAA |  Dear Artist: With the recent noise and confusion around ongoing negotiations between XM and the recording industry, we feel that it's important to speak to you directly at this time|

SlashDotOnline Music Brings New Life To Old Music  |

Wall Street Journal  |   Wall St. Journal Smokes the MPAA in Interview, Says they Stifle Innovation!  |  "I have not been asking for media free of charge. I have been asking for it free of usage and interoperability restrictions that go beyond copyright. I support a market in which creators are compensated for their works, but not one in which a creative industry can monopolize cultural reference and the technology around its works."

WashingtonPost  |   Your Privacy Under Siege  |  The government wants Internet firms to store records about you so that it can have them if necessary for an investigation. Should you worry?|

Mi2N  |   Content Owners Must Harness Power Of Peer-to-Peer  |  P2P Investment Will Support Social Stickiness And Improved Business Performance

Wired  |  Swap CDs and Pay Musicians  | In a move that is certain to stoke controversy with music promoters, the founder of the Silicon Valley startup said la la will circumvent traditional copyright and royalty payment systems to compensate identifiable working musicians. |

PC Magazine  |  Starbucks Pours New Cup Of Digital Music

WashingtonPost  |   Viral video sharing is new headache for music biz  |  As the recording industry tries to block file trading of songs across peer-to-peer networks, blogs and other viral distribution channels, the major labels suddenly have a whole new piracy concern: music videos.

Asahi Shimbun, Japan  |  Music industry dances to different tune with online downloading

Musicdish  |   Retail Music Industry Battles Extinction

Britain's Idea to Rock Out  |  Wired  |  The first vending machines to sell music downloads will be introduced in London next month as Britons continue to turn their backs on traditional methods of buying singles.  |

Mi2N  |  Gracenote And Sony Ericsson Partner To Provide Mobile Music Identification On Global Line Of Walkman Phones  |  allowing consumers to identify music when they hear it and opening direct commerce opportunities to carriers

Mi2N  |  Record Labels Break Compacts With Consumers, Congress And Courts  |  Suit Against XM Trashes Labels' AHRA And Grokster Assurances

Orbitcast   |  The Perform Act: Anti-Satellite Radio Bill  |  That didn't take long. Already the big music labels are going after the next-generation XM2go devices. This time, the debate took place in front of the US Senate over the latest onslaught of anti-satellite radio legislature: The Perform Act.

Shazam Launches Ultimate Music Discovery Engine  |  Shazam – already known and loved for its mobile music recognition service – is today launching the world's largest and most comprehensive music discovery engine. |

Wall Street Journal  |  Music's New Gatekeeper: iTunes Staffers  |  "From their Silicon Valley cubicles, Apple staffers have become music's unlikely power brokers. The decisions by the small group of Silicon Valley and music-industry veterans running iTunes can help put an unknown band on the map, adding millions of dollars in sales, while relegating others to the obscurity of the site's virtual back bins"

Mi2N  |  MusicIP Launches World's Largest Music Relationship Engine  |  Shakes Up Digital Music Industry With Consumer, Musician And Enterprise Offerings

Cnn  |  Music companies bank on digital vending machines  |

Mi2N   |  The Weed Files Announces Its Free Artist Area  |  With The Launch Of Its Artist Area Featuring Unlimited Uploads And Free Lifetime Hosting, The Weed Files Provides Virtually Costless Do-it-yourself Online Music Distribution. Focus. I

Musicdish  |  Are CDs Becoming Obsolete?: |  DVD-Audio Is Here, But Will It Last?  |

NewComputerNews   |  Musica(tm) - Wireless Music Center   |  Olive(r) introduces Musica(tm) - 40,000 songs throughout your home  |  Designed for the audiophile, the Musica(tm) incorporates the finest in audio technology  |

Wired  |   The Super Network  |  Why Yahoo! will be the center of the million-channel universe.  |

Mi2N  |  How Do 3 Million Independent Artists Reach 80 Million Music Lovers? Through Their Fans  |  MusicDish Network Artist Yohany Uses P2P Street Team File Sharing Software To Capture Free Publicity And CD Sales   |

Mi2N   |   Free CD Offer From Award Winning Child Recording Artist David Jack  |  Parents, kids and teachers should access this fun, fully-interactive music-packed site at www.davidjack.com  |

MusicDish  |  Peter Spero Productions Announces New Computer Music Sharing Subscription Service  |

MusicDish  |  Trakheadz.com Introduces New Methods For Digital Distribution  |  Bringing Artists' Music Directly To The Club And Radio DJs  |

BusinessWire  |  Clear Channel Radio today revealed broad momentum for its programs supporting new and emerging music artists  |

NewYorkTimes  |  eMusic is launching a revamped music download service that carries only music from independent labels.

Mi2N  |  Stream And Sell Your MP3s From Your Website  |  With MP3s Becoming More And More Popular, Many  |

Sample the Future  |  By Thomas Goetz  |  Wired  |  Rip, mix, burn. Swap till you drop. The music cops can't do a thing - it's 100 percent legal, licensed by the bands. The Wired CD, copyrighted for the 21st century.

WashingtonPost  |  Musicians Sing Different Tune on File Sharing  |  By Cynthia L. Webb   |

Mi2N   |  UNIQUE WEBSITE HELPS UNSIGNED SONGWRITERS & COMPOSERS PROFIT FROM THEIR MUSIC WITHOUT GIVING AWAY THEIR COPYRIGHT  |  Innovative Web-based Service Helps Unsigned Songwriters, Bands & Composers Generate Income From Their Work Without Giving Away Their Rights Or Future Earnings.  |

Music Magic Found in the Shuffle  |  By Leander Kahney  |  Wired  |  " Napster revolutionized music distribution, but massive libraries of digital music and capacious players like the iPod are upending listening habits through something very simple but profound: random shuffle. "  |

PRweb  |  Live365 licenses with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (“ASCAP”),

New Scientist Tech  |   Music fingerprinting system is fastest yet  |  It can identify songs from a database of 17 million songs in under 1 second, say its creators – but music fans may want more than speed  |  Kurt Kleiner

Seeking Alpha, NY  |  Is It Time For Apple and Microsoft to Buy Music Labels?  |

Telegraph.co.uk, UK  |  CBS pays $280m for music site Last.fm  |  The site is based on so-called "Audioscrobbler" software, which was developed by Richard Jones as a computer science project  |

DVD-Recordable  |  Free Music Downloads  |  The next user to download a song from a peer-to-peer file-sharing service like LimeWire could be in for a surprise. Not a recording industry lawsuit, but a pop-up asking him to look at an ad - either text or video - in return for a free and legal copy of the music.

Wikipedia  |   "The USB drive was simply a mechanism of leaking the music and data we wanted out there."  |

Wall Street Journal  |  Music's New Gatekeeper: iTunes Staffers  |  "From their Silicon Valley cubicles, Apple staffers have become music's unlikely power brokers. The decisions by the small group of Silicon Valley and music-industry veterans running iTunes can help put an unknown band on the map, adding millions of dollars in sales, while relegating others to the obscurity of the site's virtual back bins"
 
 
 

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