Posts Tagged with ‘sony-bmg’

For those of you who have not yet heard of Qtrax, it is an upcoming peer-to-peer (P2P) music service, aiming to offer free high-quality music from major labels in exchange for being served advertising while utilizing the Qtrax website and service. Think of the free model in use at SpiralFrog for an idea. In fact, some former SpiralFrog executives have signed on to perform consulting for Qtrax.
Despite seeming to be a completely legit service however, there is apparently a misunderstanding [...]

Amazon today announced that its completely DRM-free catalog of MP3 downloads was expanded through the addition of Sony BMG music, which should be available to consumers by the end of the month.
With all four major music labels now on board, it looks like AmazonMP3 can now be considered a real threat to iTunes and its more limited variety of DRM-free music (over 3 million at AmazonMP3 compared to just 2 million at iTunes). “All four major labels will [...]

Well, it?s happened. Sony BMG announced it is ?finalizing plans to sell songs without copyright protection? sold via the Web.
And here we were just starting to appreciate the resistance the recording giant had thus far erected in the face of inevitable change.
Okay, actually, to be straight with you, no, we didn?t so much as give the company a passing smirk in our own coverage of its stubborn refusal to bend to consumer demand. But let?s shelve the nasty talk [...]

Unlike many retail giants of mostly brick-and-mortar, chain-linked proportions headquartered in the US, Amazon has shown a nice finish to 2007. The company, one of the largest of all online retail outlets, displayed a record number of sales this month – 5.4 million for the day of December 10th alone - effectively pushing the marketplace to a 13-year high, reported the London Times yesterday.
And there’s more. The mega-success, in tandem with the Warner Music Group, also revealed earlier this [...]

The Associated Press reported this week that Sony BMG “inked a licensing deal with Yahoo! Inc. that clears the way for people to upload files with music or video content by the record company’s artists” to Yahoo!-owned sites.
The terms of the agreement stipulate that Yahoo! share revenue amassed through advertising associated with its current and future user-generated-media channel(s), as well as the distribution of strictly copyrighted material on the Internet giant’s pages as well as those of third [...]

I’ve heard continuously over the past few months of growing friction between Apple, its iTunes marketplace, and the major record companies. Yes, the one’s that have been selling their content through iTunes. And at quite a fast pace, as of late. (What is the count of tracks sold now? 3 billion? 3.5? 4? Somewhere in that area, I presume.)
And quite honestly, I’ve never really understood why they haven’t being playing very well together. I mean, sure, they’ve got their [...]

The members of Last.fm, on average, really like Last.fm. It’s a 20-million-strong network of music fans that spans the globe, and there’s no reason at all to think it’s going anywhere but up. Sure, it’s now owned by CBS, so it really can’t be seen an “indie” favorite (not in the musical sense of the term, but the corporate sense) anymore, but no matter. It’s still a fantastic piece of kit in its members' view - and ours as well.
Sony, [...]

So you want to be a rock star, buy too big a house, bribe a plastic blonde with some sparkly carbon to live in the house that’s too big, and maybe even order one of those A380’s after a few international tours? Don’t send Sony BMG a demo disc, then.
The talent recruiters at the media megalith have been looking to blogs and scouring MySpace for bands willing to sell their souls for many months now, and the company has stated [...]

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 [...]