Total Music or Total Collusion?
Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris’s attempt to wrest control of the digital music market from Apple has–shock!–run afoul of U.S. regulators. The Justice Department has begun investigating Universal for proposing to its three main competitors that they collaborate on “Total Music,” a service that would bake the cost of an “all-you-can-eat” music subscription into [...]
Monday, December 10, 2007
Under Terms of the Deal, Imeem’s Soul Will Be Held in Escrow
Offering its entire catalog of digitized video and music for free to the 19 million users of an upstart social-networking site was once about the farthest thing from Universal Music Group’s mind. Now, with the Internet rejiggering the music industry’s economic structure, it’s at the very top of it. And so this morning, UMG said it would allow members of social network Imeem to stream its music for no charge, in exchange for a cut of the revenue from advertising aired while songs are playing.
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.
Friday, August 10, 2007
iTunes Is the ‘Control Group’–As in ‘More Control Than We’re Comfortable With’
Universal Music Group appears to have finally taken Steve Jobs’s “Thoughts on Music” essay to heart–although not in the way the Apple CEO might have imagined. Heeding Jobs’s call to abandon digital-rights management, the company announced late yesterday that it will sell at least some of its music catalog online without copy protection for the next few months.
Friday, July 6, 2007
Zune Royalties Apparently Enough to Buy Universal Music Group a New Set of Balls
Though Apple would have had it otherwise, Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music company, has indeed scrapped its long-term contract with Apple’s iTunes service, opting instead to continue the arrangement on an at-will basis that will give it an easy exit should disagreements over pricing or other terms become a problem.
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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.
