Posts Tagged with ‘napster’

Warner Bros. has announced that it will now be offering its entire music and video catalog for free streaming on the social music site imeem.This is very interesting news considering the fact that, just two short months ago, Warner had announced that it was suing imeem, a site that allows its users to share music playlists and video clips.
In the suit, Warner accused imeem of building a user base by capitalizing on the “illegal use of free music,” when actually, [...]

It must not be easy being twenty-eight and crazy rich. All that money. All that stuff money gets you. Bleh. Yet Sean Parker soldiers on. And it looks like he’s going to give the big time another go, if wild success will have another round of him. Given the title ‘Wild Boy’ by fellow rebel Om Malik in a recent GigaOM piece, Parker is said to be hard at work on his 4th startup.
Parker rode a wave of Internet stardom [...]

Being a passionate music fan, I pretty much lap up any industry news that’s devoid of keywords like “bling”, “pop princess”, “Beyonce”. You know, you gotta have the firewall up at least a bit. But there are those moments when there are things going on which have little or nothing to do with the audio, and everything to do with the audio, all at the same time. Such is the case with the news of AOL Music’s purchase by Napster. [...]