Posts Tagged with ‘cds’

Another piece for you today about media and pricing, this one a rebuttal to TechCrunch editor and proprietor Michael Arrington?s insistence that recorded music is heading toward an existence as a ?free? commodity.
Firstly, I must say I agree with several of Mr Arrington?s points, one being that DRM is headed on a downward spiral to eventual eradication, and another that CDs sales are plummeting as well.
But there?s a portion of his argument that I can?t possibly accept, which has to [...]

When NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker took time Wednesday to stand atop his company’s soapbox, he said something quite true: that copyright owners are in fact “losing the battle” against the world’s digital pirates.
What he failed to follow his statement up with, however, is that it’s really no use fighting the copyright violators (which, I might add, he said most certainly should be done, and perhaps exponentially more forcefully), and that it’d be far more effective and financially beneficial for [...]

The news many weeks back of music giant EMI’s transfer to a DRM-free existence on the Web, and the subsequent decision by Universal Music Group that came only days ago to do the same with its catalogue, has been accepted with (mostly) open arms by the blogosphere. Yes, there are some particulars concerning where the tracks have been chosen to be sold and whether the switch is temporary or in fact a permanent one that have kept a number of [...]

Hours ago, somewhere in Silicon Valley, a startup by the name of Lala.com made a splash on the Web-based digital music scene. A big splash. The business, which previous focused solely on playing middleman to the trading of CDs between folks within its network, has now repositioned itself as a three-pronged audiophilic solution, catering to those interested in enjoying full-album previews and the convenience of digital downloads (DRM-free), as well as maintaining the option to purchase new CDs and trade [...]

Picture this. You’re at home, inside an Internet café, or library laced with WiFi, and you hear – through an email notification, an IM, etc. – that there’s a concert going on someplace. It’d be great if you could see it live. But you can’t, for a myriad of reasons. Would you then opt for a virtual sit-in of sorts?
Some businesses, many of which sprouted due to the success of the Web experiment that placed the worldwide Live 8 [...]