Tagged: downloadsandp2p

A complete approach to mobile music marketing takes into account all avenues for maintaining a mobile presence. So, whether you are looking for alternatives to maintaining a mobile site or want to complete your strategy, here are 5 channels for mobile music marketing without a mobile site or app. Just as I feel every artist should have a website , I also feel every artist should, at the very least, have a simple mobile site. However, with increasing numbers of mobile users accessing the web and text messaging, there are numerous channels for [...]

The RIAA and many record labels have never liked Grooveshark much even though the music streamer claims it's DMCA-compliant and responds to takedown requests. Two new open source projects - Groovejaar and Groove Shredder - are guaranteed to make the RIAA & CO like Grooveshark even less. To be clear, Grooveshark has nothing to do with the either. But if users can now illegally download songs from a streaming site that they already think is illegal... You get the picture. DETAILS: GrooveJaar is a [...]

Music WithMe , a mobile app that facilitates music discovery through social sharing, has integrated their platform by allowing users of their Android app to follow people who share music from multiple platforms. The app now supports Last.fm, Pandora Radio, Rdio , and Soundtracking (for iPhone). It also integrates AmazonMP3.com , making the purchase of music suggested by friends easier. Purchased music is automatically synced from the Android device back to the user's iTunes library, eliminating the need to specify a download from their cloud [...]

Korvel Sutton , a former member of now defunct rap group Pretty Boy Gangsters , has filed a lawsuit against iTunes for selling what he maintains are unlicensed tracks from their 1988 cassette release Rollin' Like A Star . The alleged infringements include a number of compilation albums as well as PBG - the Album . TorrentFreak obtained a copy of the filing by Korvel Sutton in California's U.S. District Court against Apple's iTunes Store. [...]

Global digital music revenues will more than double from $7.4 billion in 2010 to 20.1 billion by 2015 , according to the new Digital Music Market Outlook by Companies And Markets . That's a compound annual growth rate of 22.1% over the period. Subscriptions will be the fastest growing segment, growing at a 60.8% CAGR to 2015. In terms of digital music market value, the US, Japan, UK, France and Germany are the key digital music markets, together accounting for 79.5% of the [...]

Yesterday, Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 third quarter, posting record quarterly revenue of $28.57 billion and record quarterly net profits of $7.31 billion. Apple's iTunes controls 75% or more of the digital music market, but how much does music matter to Apple's bottom line? Less than than you might think. Apple Revenue By Product Chart:

Baidu, the search engine that controls 75% of the Chinese market, has cut a deal to make payments to a joint venture created by 3 of the four major record labels. Universal, Warner Music and Sony will pay the labels on both a per-play and per-download basis. A recently created download store will serve as the sales hub. China, the world's biggest internet market with 470 million users, has been notorious for digital media piracy with Baidu serach at the center. It's a win for the three labels involved, but some wonder if Baidu [...]

Pandora stock was up another 5% to $19.84 in morning trading Friday as The Huffington Post took a look at founder Tim Westergren's thoughts on the future of content and how we discover music. ( HuffPo ) Music service MOG has launched a cleaner and faster user interface with new features at MOG.com Grooveshark signs more labels: They announced Rocket Science last week now add Vagrant Records, BFM Digital, Dualtone and Thirty Tigers. [...]

With an online warning that they are picking up where hackers LulzSec left off, a new group calling itself AntiSec has released a large torrent of hacked data via the Pirate Bay 's servers including: A " Universal Music Group Partners dump 1 & 2 containing umusic.com's user:passwords and other data" A " Viacom dump containing internal mapping of Viacom and its server: There has been no comment yet form Universal on [...]

The RIAA may finally get the cooperation they have been looking for from ISPs. AT&T, Comcast and Verizon are reportedly close to striking a deal with music and media companies that would establish new and tougher punishments for customers who refuse to stop using their networks to pirate music, films and other intellectual property. No deal has actually been struck, according to CNet , but the parties are reportedly closer to an agreement than ever before. In Europe, some officials have suggested that ISP involvement is both a privacy and human rights issue. [...]

An academic research paper by Kalika N. Doloswal and Ann Dadich on "using policy to curb illegal downloading" provides some interesting insights into the strength of efforts to connect musicians and fans via social media. Participation in services like Sellaband is said to help build a psychological contract between fan and musician that has the potential to affect downloading activities. Amanda Palmer's music marketing and monetization model is given as a successful example of connecting with fans followed by Richie Hawtin's CUBE effort. [...]

Piracy is a serious topic in the music industry of which we've all been long aware. Approaches have varied from heavy handed lawsuits that have eroded good will to direct discussions with pirates that require good will to succeed. Here is one indie software developer's experience with personal appeals to those who have pirated his software that is worth considering for musicians. Tyler Hall is an independent Mac software developer who maintains that the most successful responses to piracy will be by making it easy to purchase software (or music) and finding "simple, [...]

This morning Amazon.com began offer a repeat of Monday's $.99 download sale of Lady Gaga's new album "Born This Way", after the original promotion overwhelmed Amazon' s servers. "Clearly customers are really excited for Lady Gaga's new album - we saw extraordinary response to Monday's promotion - far above what we expected - she definitely melted some servers," said Craig Pape, director of Music for Amazon. The promotion, which may lose Amazon around $5 per download, is as much about showcasing their new cloud music service as it is about bringing new customers [...]

We didn't intend to make today's Hypebot All Lady Gaga, All The Time , even though this is release day of her new album. But aggressive brand tie-ins including one with Google and Amazon's decision to sell the entire Born This Way album for 99 cents , have given us lots to write about. Now I've learned that Gaga's Little Monsters (her name for fans) are buying so many albums, that Amazon's download servers have slowed to a crawl and in some cases not delivering all 14 tracks. [...]

We've seen deep discounting before from Amazon. But today the online retailer is hit new highs (and lows), offering a download of the full new Lady Gaga album "Born This Way" along with a digital version of the CD booklet for just 99 cents here . Gaga fans who buy via Amazon will also get an upgrade to a 20 GB of Cloud Drive music locker. In the past, Amazon a subsidized deep discounts to drive traffic, but this time they're also [...]

Fresh off the a $105 million LimeWire victory, the RIAA has filed a legal action against Box.Net, a service that to let its users share, manage and access content in the cloud. Box.NET investor Mark Cuban has called it "The Facebook Of Cloud Computing". According to some sources, Box.NET may have been used to spread content prior to release date, and the RIAA is primarily interested in those select users. A spokesperson for the label backed trade group told the Hollywood Reporter , that has not filed lawsuit yet, but rather a subpoena [...]

For the first time in the history of the internet, traffic in paid content has passed piracy according to the Spring Traffic Report from Sandvine. Netflix provided the tipping point as the movie service mades up 22.2% of all U.S. broadband traffic compared to BitTorrent's 21.6%. At peak times, Netflix can consume 30%.of all traffic. The lesson for music? There are some things people will pay for on the web. The big question is how to make music one of them. Here's a chart of peak internet usage : [...]

A draft version of the already controversial "Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011", aka the PROTECT IP Act , leaked was introduced on Thursday by bipartisan leaders of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). This effort follows last year's unsuccessful attempt to pass COICA , the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeit Acts, also introduced by Leahy. The PROTECT IP Act covers a broad range of copyrighted material including music and thus is quite relevant to [...]

LimeWire has settled a long running court battle with the RIAA for $105 million. The court had already shut LimeWire down. But during the award phase of the trial, labels continued to blame the company for the dramatic multi-year sales drop. LimeWire countered that label ineptness caused the decline and used damaging statements from label execs to make their case. The court award could have ranged as high as $1.4 billion or been cut far lower if the jury saw RIAA tactics as heavy handed. How much [...]

A group of major label and RIAA lawyers have held at least three settlement conferences, including one on Wednesday, with representatives of Limewire according to a federal court docket entry. The two sides are working to reach an agreement instead of waiting for a jury award, says the Wall Street Journal . During court proceedings last week, LimeWire went on the offensive in an attempt to prove that the labels themselves and not p2P were to blame for the drop in record sales. Limewire used damaging emails and statements from top [...]