Monthly Archives: July 2010

What Does “Indie” Mean?

Digital Music News recently posed the question “Does ‘Indie’ really mean anything anymore?”  I thought the ensuing conversation was interesting and worth passing on. You can read the thread here.

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Jailbreaking the iPhone Now Legal

According to the Library of Congress, users of the Apple iPhone and other smart phones can now lawfully “jailbreak” their phones.  Jailbreaking is a process of unlocking the operating system on a given device and allowing the user root access.  … Continue reading

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Song Sharing Penalty Reduced

In July of 2009, Joel Tenenbaum was found guilty of illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs online.   In the lawsuit, the jury awarded the music companies a whopping $675,000 in damages. Earlier this month, Nancy Gertner, a federal judge in … Continue reading

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Mid-Year Album Sales

The latest numbers are in for the struggling music industry. Nielsen has announced the numbers for the first half of 2010 as compared to the mid-year report for 2009. Music sales are down a staggering 11% for the same time … Continue reading

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Digital Music Companies to Watch, part 2

Part 2 of Digital Music Companies to Watch SoundCloud – Soundcloud is an internet company that makes it easy to send audio files, receive audio files, embed audio tracks, and more.  They have a music streaming widget that is already … Continue reading

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Digital Music Companies to Watch Part 1

The music industry is in upheaval.  Over the past few years, digital music companies have had meteoric rises, and fallen from favor just as quickly.  It’s anybody’s guess who will have the staying power to become a household name, but … Continue reading

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The Future of the DVD

In the production music business, CDs used to be the default method of acquiring music.  As time went on, some libraries started offering downloads as well.  More time passed and now the majority of music libraries don’t even manufacture CDs … Continue reading

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Apple is Taking a Bite out of Amazon

Kevin Kelleher has written an interesting post about how Apple is starting to hurt Amazon. For the first time in 15 years, Amazon is facing a legitimate threat to it’s online media sales. Read the post here.

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Great Place to Discover New Music

On Wednesday July 7th, fans of all types of music will have a cool new resource to discover bands and follow the music scene in an interesting way.  Altered Zones will bring together an international group of music bloggers in … Continue reading

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