Posts Tagged ‘p’

Survey: Young People Happy to Pay for Music (On their Terms)

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

A major new music survey from the UK finds that young people are willing to pay for music, but only on their terms. Those terms? Unlimited downloads, no DRM, and total control.

The survey (PDF), sponsored by British Music Rights (which represents songwriters and music publishers) and conducted by the University of Hertfordshire, is billed as the "largest UK academic survey of its kind."…

Nine Inch Nails Sells Out Of $300 Deluxe Edition in 2 Days

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Looks very encouraging.

@Mike, it’s true that they won’t be “large format” prints. I think we essentially agree, Trent Reznor is going to make some really nice bank. The problem, however, is that this ficticious $750K number is…

Pirated by iTunes, Artist Turns to BitTorrent

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

The Flashbulb, aka Benn Jordan, became so outraged when he discovered that iTunes was effectively pirating his music, that he uploaded copies of his latest album to BitTorrent. TorrentFreak caught up with Benn to learn more about the decision to stop distributors and ‘coked-up label reps’ from getting all the cash.

The thing RIAA is scared of is that their billion dollar backbone can no longer shelter people from exploring music themselves. Their business plan had evolved into telling the world what they will want to listen to and buy, and now they’ll…