New Music Business Briefing: Sonos Gets Sirius, Foxy Jumps To Koch, & More
>>> Sonos Digital Music has integrated 80 Sirius streams into its home player offerings. (press release)
>>> Foxy Brown has exited Def Jam and signed with indie KOCH. (Billboard) We wonder if she read our story of how a major labels is using KOCH’s hip hop promo department and decided why not go direct?
>>> YourFreeMusicDownloads.com launched today with free mp3 downloads paid for by filling out a survey. (OurDigitalMusic). Sounds good, but is a 3 minute song worth 5 minutes of your time when you can grab it in seconds via P2P?
>>> GrooveShark opens it P2P distribution and promotion system to indie artists and labels and offers a revenue share.(press release)
>>> Arvato Mobile now offers EMI videos to its European mobile streaming customers. (press release)
>>> A critical view of Universal’s DRM-free experiment and use of track watermarking. (ARS)
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For anyone who cares, I’ve been downloading music from Your Free Music Downloads for about a month now. Works very well.
For anyone who cares, I’ve been downloading music from Your Free Music Downloads for about a month now. Works very well.