music industry

I was in the audience to see Eliot van Buskirk interview Rovio's CEO, Mikael Hed, on Monday morning at Midem, but with so much going on at the conference (and then traveling), I'm finally getting a chance to write it up.

Hed made a point of telling music industry execs that not only was the music industry's approach to piracy entirely wrong, he believed Rovio's approach was much smarter: embracing the piracy.

Recently Spotify launched its app platform, a significant step into a future where music licensing can function like an API.

Rhapsody completes acquisition of the music service, which in a former iteration frustrated the music industry and helped change the landscape of digital music.

Read this blog post by Steven Musil on Digital Media.

Previously, representatives from the Finnish music industry filed a lawsuit against Elisa, one of the country’s largest ISPs, demanding that it should block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay.

In a reply filed at the district court, Elisa has refused to comply, describing the blocking demands as “unreasonable.”

he novelty here, is that Google is backing up Amazon’s play despite using a different approach, but they’re not exactly teaming up.

Digital books, aka “ebooks” are going to change the publishing world just as

Amazon’s decision to launch its new Cloud Player without securing additional music licenses has been described as a “bold move” by many observers.

It takes serious guts for Amazon to simply declare that it doesn’t need licenses — especially when even casual observers know the music industry thinks otherwise.

Mike's recent post about OK Go is just crying out for some Mimi & Eunice cartoons.

About a year and a half ago, I gave a presentation at a music industry event, where one of the points I tried to make was that those who were betting on digital sales as a savior were making a fool's bet.

However, many in the industry have been infatuated with this idea, even if the evidence always suggested that digital sales would only ever make up a small fraction of what CD sales used to bring in.

The music industry has gone off the deep end. Now they want to lay the blame for music piracy on PCMag.com's doorstep.