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Illegal File Sharing
The World Intellectual Property Organization just released numbers saying that 40 billion files were illegally shared in 2008. This year is set to have even more files illegally shared. Artists – do not bank on making vast sums of money from your album sales. Stay tuned,Erikerikrostad.comFollow me on Twitter
Free File Sharers = $$$
Interesting article here stating that those horrible file sharers actually spend 75% more on paid downloads than those who don’t illegally download music: “Those who share files are simply more interested in music. They use file sharing as a discovery mechanism. We have a generation of young people who don’t have any concept of music [...]
MXP4
I have often blogged about the price of music files. We are learning that when Apple raises prices of songs to $1.29, they sell drastically less songs. We also saw China do an experiment last year to see if people used to getting songs for free would pay just $0.06 for a song. These are [...]
Bacardi Groove
Bacardi, the famous rum producer, has initiated a novel approach to sharing music. Bacardi has partnered with the band Groove Armada, a big beat duo out of England, to be one of the online distributors of the band’s new EP. The idea is for users to promote Groove Armada through Bacardi’s B-Live site. Users can [...]
Global Digital Music Sales
In the previous blog, we looked at the top 10 markets for digital sales of music. These markets (in order of market size) are the US, Japan, UK, South Korea, Germany, France, Canada, Australia, China, and Italy. These top 10 markets account for 90% of all global digital sales. Conspicuously absent from this list are [...]
