DiscLive who records and distributes live concert CDs, said on Friday that it will release a double CD recorded at upcoming sold-out concerts in New York City’s Central Park by. Continue reading
Induce Act P2P Hearings
From Digital Maedia Wire – Wired News on Friday provided coverage of Thursday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the “Induce Act,” a controversial bill that could outlaw peer-to-peer networks and. Continue reading
Clear Channel Concert Division Hits Slump?
From two stories on MusicBiz.com:“A little over a week ago, MusicBiz reported on what is shaping up to be a largely disastrous summer concert touring season. More evidence of that. Continue reading
Listen before you buy tops iTunes on Heart download
From Digital Media Wire: “The Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA), a trade group of peer-to-peer file-sharing software distributors, said on Thursday that download sales of songs from female rock band. Continue reading
33% of global ’03 music sales were illicit
From The Hollywood Reporter:“Global sales of pirated music added up to an estimated $4.5 billion by the end of last year, according to figures released Thursday by the International Federation. Continue reading
Involver Ready to Rock Youth Vote
From Wired.com – Josh Koenig has outsized, outlandish political ambitions: to use the Internet to create a new civic movement for disengaged younger Americans, whose first act would be to. Continue reading
Electronic Press Kits Get Soul
We’re a huge fan of bands producing and using EPK’s (Electronic Press Kits) as promotional tools. Not only do EPK’s save a lot of wasted paper and trees, but they. Continue reading
BLUEBEAT: 320 Channels Of Free Digital Radio
From The Hollwood Reporter: “Media Rights Technologies has unveiled a new product intended to raise Internet radio to higher levels of quality and security. The content software company’s subsidiary Bluebeat.com. Continue reading
Report: Global MP3 Player Sales Will Double in 2004 to 20 Million
FROM DIGITAL MEDIA WIRE London – Global sales of MP3 players are expected to double in 2004, to more than 20 million units, according to London-based market research firm Informa. Continue reading
MPee3.com Launches Free Mp3 Search Engine
New service MPee3.com (yes we cringe reading the name too) takes the most basic Internet service, a search engine, and applies it to MP3 (MPEG2-Layer3 Audio) files. The result is. Continue reading