More Music Industry News: Verizon Tests RIAA Notices, Sirius Shift, YouTube HD, Piracy & More
Verizon tests sending RIAA notices. (CNet)- Sirius XM Chairman Gary Parsons steps down. (FMQB)
- Pre-Release Music Piracy: Further Arrests, Exec Loses Job – During the summer, TorrentFreak learned that major online music piracy group DV8 suffered a serious setback after a music industry investigation led to arrests. In September our sources leaked information that a label executive had also been arrested. Now fresh details have emerged concerning his fate and news of yet more arrests. (Torrentfreak)
- YouTube to support 1080p high-definition video; mobile video uploads up 2,000% this year. (VentureBeat)
- AEG Live and Action 3D have partnered to produce a series of filmed concert events shot on HD 3D and slated to be released theatrically in 3D for limited, one-week engagements. The first film to roll out will headline the Dave Matthews Band. (Variety)
- Two stories from The Economist on piracy: Music piracy. Singing a different tune – "The battle against online music piracy is turning. A return to growth will take a good deal longer" and How to sink pirates – The decline of music piracy holds lessons for other industries.
- Can we ever measure the impact of downloading? With each side in the filesharing debate offering contradictory reports about the effects of illegal downloading, it is difficult to know who to believe. (Guardian)
- Orange UK sold 30,000 iPhones on launch day. (Mashable)
- Free doesn't mean devalued. (Techdirt)
- Hungama Digital Media partners with EMI Music for the digital distribution of its catalog in South Asia. The deal includes WMG, as well. (press release)
- With iTunes’ Variable Pricing, Fewer Hit Song Sales Still Mean More Money For Apple. (GigaOm)
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Paul McGuinness, who manages the band U2, says the whole “starmaking apparatus” is damaged.
But those farcical “TV superstars” from out of the “Idol” type of talent contest TV shows may have damaged the “starmaking apparatus” even more than illegal copies, because so many of those TV stars aren’t anything special talent-wise, but just have good publicity.