New Music Business Briefing: MySpace Protects, Majors Silent, Microsoft, Real & Apple Get Sued
>>> MySpace has launched "Take Down Stay Down" copy protection for videos that allows content providers to ban content.
>>> AP looks at why the major labels are silent while the calls to clean up rap lyrics continues. (via Forbes)
>>> Media Rights Techonolgies has taken the unusual step of sueing Microsoft, Real, Apple and Adobefor not using its technolgy to fight illegal file sharing.
>>> Some are predicting that digital copy protection issues will ulitmately be solved by chips in all hardware devices.
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as to the lyrics problem, labels can claim that these lyrics are an effect, not a cause of any problem, which is mostly true. One problem that confronts everyone is that as soon as you tell young listeners that they can’t have a particular cd (due to offensive content), that CD will shoot to the top of the charts- how do we stop that?