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If the recording industry thinks Steve Jobs has been a bear to negotiate with in the past, wait until it gets a load of him now.
Apple’s (AAPL) iTunes Store has become the No. 2 music retailer in the states, according to a new study by the NPD Group. It’s second only to Wal-Mart and, if [...]
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Hello, I’m a Mac. And I’m a Cheapskate.
Market research has uncovered yet another rift between Mac and PC users. According to the NPD Group’s Digital Music Monitor, Mac users are far more likely than PC users to pay to download music.
They’re also more likely to buy CDs. Of all Mac users surveyed by NPD, 50% paid to download music during the third [...]
‘Comes With Music’: Free, as in Pay Us Per-Song Usage Rights
If terms of Nokia’s new “Comes with Music” program appear impossibly generous to the consumer, who will pay no monthly fees for Universal Music Group’s entire catalog, it’s because they are.
Though “Comes with Music” does indeed permit owners of certain Nokia cellphones to download as many songs as humanly possible in one year (with no [...]
Her Majesty’s Massive Data Breach
Add the personal details of most every child in the U.K. to the growing tally of sensitive consumer information misplaced by those entrusted with it. Because two CDs containing child benefit information on every family in Britain with a child under 16 have gone missing.
HM Revenue and Customs Chancellor Alistair Darling broke the news to [...]
Our New Service Is Called ‘Total Music,’ but We Like to Refer to It Internally as ‘Total Panic’
The per-device royalties Universal Music Group receives for every Zune player sold were apparently substantial enough to buy CEO Doug Morris a bigger set of balls, because he’s out drumming up support for an industry-owned subscription service with which he hopes to loosen Apple’s grip on the digital music market.
Monday, October 1, 2007
Radiohead to Record Labels: ‘This Is What You Get, When You Mess With Us’
Well, this is sure to set a cat among the pigeons who still believe they have a God-given right to control the retail distribution and pricing of music.
Recently freed of its contractual obligation to major label EMI Group, top-selling British rock band Radiohead is releasing its seventh studio album, “In Rainbows,” on Oct. 10 as [...]
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Amazon Digital-Music Market Share to Be Recorded in Apple Lossless
Apple’s not going to turn iTunes into the Microsoft Windows of the digital music space if Amazon can help it. This morning the retailer announced the public beta of its much-anticipated music download service, breathlessly touting it as “the world’s biggest selection of a la carte DRM-free MP3 music downloads.”
Amazon MP3, as the company’s cleverly [...]
Monday, September 10, 2007
Neat Idea, but How Do I Get the CD in My Cellphone?
Few industries have greater allegiance to dying media formats
than the record labels. To wit, Sony BMG’s latest attempt to keep sales of CDs afloat, the “ringle.”
What is a ringle, you ask? Well, it’s a new product that conveniently packages a hit song and a digital ringtone in the near end-of-life CD single. For $5.98 or [...]
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Sony CONNECT Disaster Impressively Well Realized
Sony ATRAC is at long last joining Betamax, MiniDisc, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, HiFD, (pause for breath) Multi-Media Compact Disc, Memory Stick and Super Audio CD in the company’s Museum of Failed Formats.
After an overlong and unsuccessful campaign to spread adoption of ATRAC, Sony is scrapping the proprietary audio format. This morning the company said [...]
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
