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DRM'd outta town

2008-02-06 21:34:55 by Sean Piccoli in Notes on Music | Sun-Sentinel Blogs
 
My experiences with downloading music, ripping CDs to a hard drive, making my own mixes and so forth have been overwhelmingly positive. Nobody ever stuck a rootkit or some other buried surveillance tool on my computer, and while some CDs refuse to be burned, I've had more flexibility with my music than I could have imagined even five years ago...
 
Tags: windows media player, player, media player library, musicmatch jukebox player, media player, drm, hard drive, computer, songs
 
 
 
 
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The Faints Fasciinatiion (review goes here, but wont because of idiot DRM)

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2008-07-14 12:26:22 by Porridge in Perfect Porridge
Im a huge fan of Omahas electro-rock hybrid group The Faint Ive seen them live three times, cite their influence/parallels throughout numerous reviews, and ever since their two-date stint at First Avenue opening for Bright Eyes on the Digital Ash in a Digital Urn tour, Ive been salivating all over my yuppy yellow polo shirt just waiting for new...
 
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Labels & Studios Mull DRM Comeback

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2008-09-16 05:46:00 by Bruce Houghton in hypebot
It's been said, wants gone is gone. But apparently some in the entertainment industry failed to get the memo. A group of major film studios and record labels have joined together once again in an initiative called the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem to find a way to control what happens after you purchase a digital album or movie The...
 
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Yahoo!s music downloads to become obsolete

2008-07-31 05:20:36 by Matthew in I Own My Music!
 
Yahoo! music will close the doors on its music-download store on September 30, taking its DRM keys with it. This means that any music downloads bought from Yahoo! wont be able to be played on any other computer than the one they were downloaded to Yahoo! has come up with the odd solution of burning the files to CD and then ripping them back onto...
 
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Friday's Music 2.0 Briefing: EU-Wide Music Market, iTunes Anti-Trust, Napster Raises Prices

2008-01-04 05:15:04 by Bruce Houghton in hypebot
 
The European Union Commission has announced a plan to c reate a single, European-wide market for online music , films, and video game licensing and pushing for an interoperable consumer-friendly DRM system. ( ars ) T his was great news until "consumer-friendly DRM system An antitrust lawsuit accuses Apple of monoplolizing the online music market...
 
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RockBand Music Sales vs. Early iTunes

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2008-04-03 09:25:00 by Bruce Houghton in hypebot
This guest post comes from Nabeel Hyatt of Conduit Labs who blogs at brinking If you care about music, and therefore whether that business will survive, there was some pretty amazing news from Rock Band this week that didn't get the attention it deserved. MTV mentioned that Rock Band had sold 6 million downloadable tracks in its first four...
 
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Playlists, new samples player, web subscription playback

2007-07-31 01:16:14 by Lucas Gonze in Yahoo! Music Blog
 
Continuing the torrential pace of new software, we have released a playlist page, a new player for thirty-second samples, and the ability to play subscription tracks in the browser. All of this software is somewhat beta Until a few weeks ago, when you opened a playlist created in Yahoo! Music Jukebox in the browser you were likely to get a...
 
Tags: playlist page, playlist, acid soul playlist, playlist pages, playlists, text-only playlist, adams playlist, windows, music
 
 
 
 
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Yankee Research Predicts Record Label Marginalization

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2008-01-09 08:27:36 by Bruce Houghton in hypebot
The Yankee Group used CES to share an analysis showing two fundamental shifts are driving the music industry - digitization and direct-to-consumer transactions. As a result, Yankee says, US recording revenue has plummeted 25% or more since peaking at $14.6 billion in 1999 Over the course of the next several years, Yankee Group anticipates that...
 
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Monday's Music 2.0 Briefing: IODA Warns, S&P Cautions, China Struggles & Much More

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2008-01-17 03:19:00 by Bruce Houghton in hypebot
We broke the story yesterday that digital distributor IODA was advising labels against deals with imeem, LaLa and other Music 2.0 services that offer full song streaming until they offer better royalty rates. ( more A2IM has hired Ted Cohen to consult the indie trade group on digital A Standard & Poors Ratings Service analysis confirms that...
 
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