Posts Tagged with ‘emi’

The music industry is in trouble. Its titans complain about the continuous decrease in CD sales. And while in previous years the big houses (and the little ones they held within) were the only logical recipients for solo artists and musical groups and acts (think boy bands and the like), today many percussionists, string magicians, vocalists, and pianists and keyboardists, together or apart, are choosing to “go their own way.”
The horror stories about the selling of souls for little more [...]

In the hours following Apple and EMI’s debut of DRM-free music on the iTunes Store, the blogosphere was abuzz with good cheer, but soon thereafter grew a body of dissenters to an unofficially announced measure apparently taken by Apple and EMI to ensure that media purchased within the iTunes Plus milieu are “traceable.” Upon quick inspection of the issue, one could see clear reason for the response to the Big-Brother-esque strategy Apple and EMI have employed.
The [...]

We’ve sure you’ve seen the signs. Search for a music video by name or artists on YouTube; find what you’re looking for in the results. Click. Only then you discovered on the following page a red box mentioning something or other about copyright infringement, and that the clip was no longer available for playback. Bummer.
Up to now, that’s been the case when it came to EMI-specific content. (Warner, Universal, and Sony all signed deals with YouTube permitting uploads and [...]

Apple today launched a subset of iTunes, dubbed iTunes Plus, established to market DRM-free, 256kbps-quality audio tracks to consumers interesting in obtaining unrestricted files for playback and to transfer any which way they so wish – as long as the application and/or device they prefer using recognizes the AAC file format. All iTunes Plus tracks cost $1.29, though full albums will run iTunes Store customers the same amount as those with digital rights management software attached.
As AppleInsider has reported, the [...]

DRM isn’t so much a product of Web 2.0 as it is its nemesis. Web 2.0 is very much an open space. DRM is very, very closed. That alone should be reason enough to send cumbersome copy protection off to the gallows.
Which Amazon pledges to do. (Pardon the terrible opener and subsequent segway.)
Today in the news: The largest of online retail giants intends to offer only DRM-free music downloads. Big story. Perhaps even more so than Apple’s recent [...]

What is the agreed-upon value of a digital download by nearly all involved with music distribution? Ninety-nine cents. So what is EMI’s reasoning in asking the consumers of their digital downloads to pay a 30% premium for 256kbps, DRM-free tracks on iTunes?
I think I can sum it up in three words. Because. They’re. Afraid. The majority of the music industry’s controllers are averse to change. They hate it. They want to keep things the way they are, and they just want [...]

London record company EMI announced yesterday that it is planning to unveil an exciting digital collaboration with Apple Inc. The news, although not conclusive, points to an expectation that The Beatles' music catalogue will be made available to Apple's iTunes online music store.
EMI will hold a news conference today from their London headquarters with Eric Nicoli EMI's head honcho and Steve Jobs of Apple. The company would not give any further details, but EMI has been The Beatle's record label [...]

Mac communities were certain of it. Anti-Mac communities figured it would happen, too. Beatles fans anticipated. And then there were those that did not care. That last bunch made out pretty well considering the latest news on the Beatles-iTunes front: it's apparently not to be. At least not yet.
The record label holding the Beatles’ back catalogue (EMI) decided to finally get the rumor mill off its back, stating that digital downloads of the songs from throughout the Fab Four’s history [...]

Apple marked February 6th with something many, many people have been waiting for for a long time. Since the dawn of the Age of iPod, the world has wondered whether the new technologies that would be developed down the road would wear peacenik garb or be the bread and butter in an era of restriction, effectively making consumers prisoners of a world their earned currency created. I make that sound like a nightmare, don’t I? But already happened. We’re living [...]