Industry – Page 5

My heart bleeds. You can hear it, it’s that guffawing noise.

12 March, 201015 November, 2016 Industry 0

Will the six five four majors shrink to five four three? “Oh dear what a pity never mind,” as Windsor Davies lamented.

Featured Artists Coalition terminally shoots self in foot.

5 October, 200929 April, 2017 Industry 0

If you’re trying to be the peak body for musicians in the UK, it helps not to alienate anyone who can read. Supporting Lily

The Universe as seen from the music industry.

24 August, 200915 October, 2016 Industry 0

The Performing Right Society has produced a really nice chart of the music universe. Everyone involved is on this diagram. … except one group.

It’s not downloading, it’s games. Here’s the numbers.

11 June, 200921 May, 2017 Games, Industry, mp3 0

Charles Arthur from the Guardian nails music industry bollocks to a wall. The article is worth reading (the data was quite interesting to gather),

Sound copyright extended into perpetuity.

26 April, 20098 March, 2011 Industry 0

TALKIN’ ABOUT, Degeneration, Thursday (NNME) — With the conviction of The Pirate Bay administrators having immediately abolished all filesharing, the EU has approved an

PRS demands middle-aged kicks all through the nap.

9 April, 20098 March, 2011 Industry 0

MIDEM, Cash from Chaos, 1977 (NNN) — The Performing Right Society and UK Music have come out strongly against YouTube and Google for not

Oh dear what a pity never mind.

28 February, 200926 December, 2016 Industry 5

The RIAA is on the skids. The record companies are pulling support at a fantastic rate; what will be left will be a smaller

Step right up!

13 September, 200812 November, 2016 Industry, Your rights 2

The content industry is addicted to control. We tell them over and over again that DRM is mathematically impossible. There is no such thing

Never mind the money, you’re not getting paid anyway.

17 August, 200820 May, 2017 Industry 0

Radiohead’s In Rainbows did zillions of copies through bittorrents and filesharing, suggesting they’re replacing the radio, not the CD. Not that the death of

Fairy gold.

4 August, 20084 August, 2008 Industry 0

Yahoo is reimbursing its fairy gold victims, but people have finally noticed that just the same applies to iTunes. Apple are already messing about

Slave to the Economist.

21 July, 200821 July, 2008 Industry 1

“I love The Economist. It’s like a really rational guy on crack.” They finally read The Pirate’s Dilemma (think of pirates as researching new

The only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been nailed there.

17 July, 200824 August, 2016 Industry 0

It’s hard to convince someone they’re being sold snake oil if they think their income depends on it: “I made a list of the

You can’t hide your lose forever.

8 July, 200826 August, 2016 Film, Industry 2

You can fool much of the press quite a bit of the time, but the markets don’t care if you run baby-mulching machines —

Recording industry decries humming tunes to yourself as ‘a form of piracy.’

26 June, 200820 May, 2017 Industry 0

With income from physical discs dropping through the floor and the iTunes takings not being enough to sustain the fruit and flowers budget, the

RIAA cooked the books to invent “piracy problem.”

18 December, 20026 May, 2018 Industry 0

From boingboing.net: A new research report suggests that the convicted price-fixers at the RIAA cooked the books to create a nonexistent “piracy problem.” “So

Vivendi raided; deep cost cuts coming at Universal

14 December, 20023 May, 2017 Industry 0

Following the earlier SEC probe into financial irregularities, the French authorities have raided Vivendi’s Paris office, the office of its subsidiary Cegetel and the

How the mighty tumble: Universal in SEC probe

20 November, 200224 September, 2016 Industry 1

posted by Oh Yeah Vivendi Universal, the ultimate parent company of Universal Music, is under US Securities and Exchange Commission investigation over their accounting

EMI: “Quit whining, pirate scum!”

9 November, 20022 January, 2017 Audio, Industry, mp3, Your rights 6

Over at El Reg they’ve been running a few pieces lately about responses from record label “customer relations” departments to purchasers who’ve complained about

RIAA website hack: MP3s offered for download

1 September, 200224 September, 2016 Industry, mp3 0

After the third in a series of website hacks, the RIAA has fixed its website … except for this page. The page is presently

The MP3 shakedown begins: US$2000 to put your songs up

29 August, 200224 September, 2016 Industry, mp3 5

It’s been long forecast, and is on at last: Fraunhofer and Thomson Multimedia have new rates for the use of MP3. Non-commercial decoders were

Janis Ian Redux

7 August, 20024 November, 2021 Industry, mp3 1

posted by Anthony Horan Janis Ian has posted a follow-up to her much-read Internet Debacle feature, with a new reaction piece called Fallout. Is

The Universal Music award for excellence in customer relations.

4 July, 20024 November, 2021 Industry 2

Los Angeles Times Calendar Live posits that the real enemy of the CD market is not the Internet – it’s the DVD market. For

Vivendi Universal meltdown

4 July, 200224 September, 2016 Industry 5

Vivendi Universal’s weird transition from a French water company to a media conglomerate is — astoundingly enough — failing to hold together. Chairman Jean-Marie

Why the music industry has had it.

12 June, 20024 January, 2017 Industry 1

In its present form, in any case. The party’s well and truly over, guys. As laid out step by step in a New York

This week, filesharing increases CD sales.

4 May, 200215 August, 2008 Industry 0

Jupiter MMXI, the media survey organisation that two weeks ago released a report claiming that “the European record industry must act now to curb

More Clear Channel bashin’ fun

27 March, 200223 August, 2016 Industry 2

“Mr. Alan also used phone calls he had recorded during his live show in San Diego, editing out local references to make them usable in Boise.”

Lawsuit over crippled Charley Pride CD settled.

22 February, 200216 August, 2008 Industry 0

The suit brought by California woman Karen DeLisle against

Pressplay to pay 0.23 cents per download.

20 February, 20029 May, 2018 Industry 0

The recording industry, that fine and upstanding community institution of unimpeachable repute, has put its usual sort of deal on the Pressplay and MusicNet