Looks like Last.fm co-founder Richard Jones and Facebook founder Mark “Once every hundred years media changes” Zuckerberg have at least one thing in common: a penchant for new-economy hyperbole.
Announcing the debut of Last.fm’s “unprecedented” on-demand music streaming platform, Jones–in a moment of Zuckerbergian grandiosity–proclaimed:
Today we’re redesigning the music economy.”
Which will no doubt come as a [...]
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Good thing Viacom and CBS Corp. Chairman Sumner Redstone plans to live at least another 50 years; he may actually be around long enough to see the realization of Viacom’s grand Internet strategy and its bet on the marriage of old-line media assets with new distribution technologies. Assuming, of course, the sanctity of copyright [...]
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Rupert Murdoch is in an unusually generous mood these days, isn’t he? This morning Fox Broadcasting said it would make season-premiere episodes of seven of its TV shows available for free through Apple’s iTunes store. Beginning this week and continuing through the two that follow, the network will offer free downloads of such series [...]
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