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The Internet as Radio
The following quote came from the 2009 Future of Music summit: “Copying can’t be stopped,” said artist manager Peter Jenner. “I have an interest in getting paid, but we have to stop thinking of the Internet like a shop and more like a radio station.” The industry is clinging to a business built on mass-produced [...]
MySpace Music Down Under
MySpace Music has opened up shop in Australia & New Zealand as of today, Oct. 1. The popular social media network will have streaming music, playlist functions, and ringtone capabilities. This differs from the Myspace platform in that this one is specifically for music. New’s Corporation, owner of MySpace, has plans to roll MySpace Music [...]
MuxTape Re-emergence
MuxTape, who shut down under pressure from the RIAA late last year, has re-emerged in a “legal” format. MuxTape hit the industry by storm by offering the ability to create “mixed tapes” online and share them with friends. The site would gather songs located around the internet to supply content for these mixed online playlists. [...]
SpiralFrog Biz Model
SpiralFrog, an online ad-supported music streaming site, is running into financial problems. SpiralFrog has been one of the poster-children for alternative business models for the online music industry. Downloads of over 3 million songs are available on the site for free. Advertisements support the cost of downloading the songs. But now, they are running into [...]
Digital EMI
EMI has launched a new platform in Beta on their main URL www.emi.com. Here one can peruse artist videos, biographies, songs, etc. This site has a iTunes look to it. A very simple and clean look. The site has a dual purpose. The obvious one is to be a hub for information and content for [...]
EMI-tunes Australia
Major record label, EMI, has just launched its own site to sell music digitally, in Australia. The site is called Musichead MP3 and has a half million tracks available for paid download. In the words of EMI’s Australian Chairman: “Our goal is always to offer consumers the best possible digital music experience – in all [...]
