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| 30.08.2024 | Operation Redirect: Police Anti-Malware Action Protects Music & Pirates | Most anti-piracy campaigns of the last four or five decades feature a direct order (Don’t Pirate) followed by some additional information for people to consider before making an informed choice.
The direct order “Don’t Pirate” has never cha... |
| 04.08.2024 | Music startups in Africa that have raised over $100K funding | The African music industry is experiencing rapid growth, with the continent’s music scene buoyed by increasing global popularity among a young, tech-savvy population.
Digital music platforms like Boomplay, Deezer, Spotify, and Apple Music h... |
| 28.07.2024 | The Battle for Music: Streaming Apps and Legal Storms | The music industry is in turmoil. Streaming apps are at the center of a fierce battle. On one side, you have innovative platforms like Musi, which stream music for free. On the other, traditional music companies are pushing back, claiming t... |
| 26.07.2024 | Music Industry Puts Pressure on ‘Parasitic’ Streaming App Musi | App stores are littered with apps that promise free access to music, but only few live up to expectations. Musi is one of them.
The music app made headlines in 2016 when its founders, who were teenagers at the time, presented their brainchi... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Rise of Local Giants: Anghami and India’s Plant-Based Revolution**
** | ** In the vast landscape of global markets, local players often find themselves overshadowed by giants. Yet, in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, Anghami has carved out a niche that challenges the dominance of Spotify. Meanwhi... |
| 24.07.2024 | Piracy Portal ‘Hikari-no-Akari’ Shuts Down Following Legal Pressure | Founded in 2010, Hikari-no-Akari (HnA) positioned itself as the go-to site for fans of Japanese music.
With anime booming across the globe, HnA’s audience didn’t stop at the border. And with over a million visits per month, rightsholders st... |
| 19.07.2024 | In MENA, Spotify plays second fiddle to one homegrown platform | Community Content
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Lara Fakhry · 7h ago · 6 min readIn MENA, Spotify plays secon... |
| 06.04.2024 | Nigeria leads in musical hits; South Africa rakes in streaming cash | Before she bought her first iPhone, Deborah Obishai, who works as a secretary, used to download music from bootleg sites like Trendy Beatz and Flexy Music. One of her biggest disappointments when she made the phone switch was realising she ... |
| 25.03.2024 | Publishers Secure Widespread Support in Landmark Copyright Battle With Internet Archive | The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit organization that aims to preserve digital history for generations to come.
The digital library is a staunch supporter of a free and open Internet and began meticulously archiving the web over a qua... |
| 23.03.2024 | ‘The superstars are getting smaller’: Why emerging artists are Spotify’s golden ticket | Emerging musicians are finding it easier to break into a traditionally tightly-controlled market using streaming platforms, like Spotify.
Despite industry concerns about the viability of these platforms as a way for small artists to make mo... |
| 12.12.2023 | Music Piracy Remains a Widespread Problem, Particularly in Emerging Countries | The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) presents itself as the voice of the global recording industry.
The group represents roughly 8,000 members globally, ranging from smaller independent labels to the largest labe... |
| 14.07.2023 | Кому в стриминге жить хорошо: влияние стриминговых сервисов на музыкальную индустрию | Статья рассматривает историю распространения музыки, переход на легальные цифровые сервисы и трансформационное влияние стриминга на музыкальную индустрию. Мы расскажем, как платформы вроде Spotify, Apple Music и YouTube изменили способ потр... |
| 03.04.2023 | Cloudflare DNS Must Block Pirate Sites, Italian Court Confirms | Website blocking has become an increasingly common anti-piracy tool. ISPs in dozens of countries have been ordered by courts to block pirate sites.
More recently, these blocking requests have expanded to DNS providers as well. In Germany, f... |
| 20.01.2023 | Major Labels Obtain Stream-Ripping Site Blocking Order in India | In a September 2022 blog post, YouTube’s Global Head of Music revealed that in the 12 months between July 2021 and June 2022, YouTube paid over $6 billion to the music industry.
Trade groups, including IFPI and the RIAA, believe the return ... |
| 09.11.2022 | Court Upholds Piracy Blocking Order Against Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS Resolver | Website blocking has become an increasingly common anti-piracy tool around the globe.
In dozens of countries, ISPs have been ordered by courts to block pirate sites, usually on copyright grounds. More recently, neutral DNS providers have be... |
| 19.04.2022 | The newest additions to ‘classic rock’ stations will make you feel especially old | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
Classic hits radio is meant to appeal to an audience that doesn’t connect as frequently with the latest hi... |
| 05.04.2022 | Music Industry Flags Discord and Reddit as Primary Piracy Threats | Following the example of the United States, the EU started publishing its very own piracy watchlist a few years ago.
This ‘Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List’ is put together by the European Commission. As in the US, it relies on stakeholder... |
| 22.03.2022 | Boosted by streaming services, global recorded music revenues reached $26 bln in 2021 | Global recorded music revenues rose 18.5% last year to $25.9 billion, driven by an increase in users of paid streaming services. It is the seventh consecutive year of growth in this market, according to the Global Music Report released this... |
| 25.02.2022 | Peru Teams Up With IFPI to Fight Online Music Piracy | Every year the US Trade Representative publishes a new update of its Special 301 Report, highlighting countries that fail to live up to U.S copyright protection standards.
The annual overview is meant to motivate foreign governments to impr... |
| 19.02.2022 | How NFTs could redefine the future of the music industry | Join today's leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here.
This article was contributed by Jake Fraser, head of business development at Mogul Productions.
NFT sales skyrocketed in 2021. From a transaction volume ... |
| 19.02.2022 | How NFTs could redefine the future of the music industry | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This article was contributed by Jake Fraser, head... |
| 20.12.2021 | Blockchain-powered music and bigger investments: The next frontier for music tech | Share this article:
Over the years, technology has had a strong role in how we create, distribute, and consume works of art. Music, for example, has gone from stringed cassette tapes that’ll go on to become a child’s plaything (if you’re me... |
| 05.07.2021 | We're excited to welcome Side Door to the Rhino Crash! | Please welcome Side Door, as the latest addition to the Rhino Crash! |
| 25.05.2021 | The Online Music Industry: A brief dissection | Music has been one of the oldest forms of entertainment, leading to the building of cultures, revolutions and socialisation. Technology has constantly disrupted the form in which it has been consumed. The latest disruption in the Online Mus... |
| 20.04.2021 | Chargebee boosts subscription and recurring revenue tools with $125M round | Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year.
Subscription and recurring billing tools provider Chargebee today said that it raised $125 million in series G funding co-led by Sapphire Ventures, Tiger Global, an... |
| 20.04.2021 | Chargebee boosts subscription and recurring revenue tools with $125M round | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Subscription and recurring billing tools provider Chargebee today said that it raised $125 million in series G funding co-led by Sapphi... |
| 24.03.2021 | Streaming platforms now account for over 62pc of global music revenues: report | The global recorded music business grew by 7.4 per cent last year, an industry body said Tuesday, as streaming continued to drive a fast-paced recovery from the doldrums of the piracy era.
The return of vinyl continued unabated with sales ... |
| 09.03.2021 | BTS on 1st Grammy nod: 'It’s hard to express in words' | NEW YORK (AP) — Stuck at home during the pandemic, BTS created “Dynamite" and released the song to their isolated fans as a gift. Now, the gift has returned to them — in the form of their first Grammy nomination.
“A lot of people were ... |
| 05.03.2021 | BTS Do The Impossible And Make History As They’re Named The Biggest Recording Act In The World | LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 26: V, Suga, Jin, Jungkook, RM, Jimin, J-Hope of musical group BTS ... [+] attend the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on January 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty ... |
| 05.11.2020 | A New LA Company Aims to Give Fans a Way to Invest, Literally, in the Musicians They Love | AmplifyX launches next week to offer shares in musicians' future royalty income
Its first tranche is two Detroit-based musicians, each of whom are offering 20% of future royalties for $10,000 at an effective $25 share price
In the future, A... |
| 06.10.2020 | Chargebee raises $55 million for subscription and billing automation | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
San Francisco-based Chargebee, which provides sub... |
| 06.10.2020 | Chargebee raises $55 million for subscription and billing automation | San Francisco-based Chargebee, which provides subscription management and recurring billing tools, today raised $55 million. The company says the funds will be put toward product development and go-to-market efforts.
By some estimates, 40% ... |
| 16.09.2020 | Copyright Companies Want Memes That Are Legal In The EU Blocked Because They Now Admit Upload Filters Are 'Practically Unworkable' | The passage of the EU Copyright Directive last year represented one of the most disgraceful examples of successful lobbying and lying by the publishing, music, and film industries. In order to convince MEPs to vote for the highly controvers... |
| 15.09.2020 | EU’s Article 17 Consultation Reinvigorates ‘Upload Filter’ Debate | Last year there were fierce protests against the new EU Copyright Directive which, according to opponents, would result in broad upload filters on the web.
Despite this pushback, the directive passed, and individual EU member states began w... |
| 01.09.2020 | Japanese Stars ARASHI On Their Upcoming Hiatus: ‘It’s Something We’ve Been Thinking About For A Long Time’ | TAIPEI, CHINA - NOVEMBER 11: Singers Ohno Satoshi, Matsumoto Jun, Aiba Masaki, Ninomiya Kazunari and ... [+] Sakurai Sho of Japanese band Arashi meet fans on November 11, 2019 in Taipei, Taiwan of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)V... |
| 05.08.2020 | Lords urge government to protect UK creative industries in post-Brexit trade deal | A House of Lords committee has written to the culture secretary demanding clarification on how a post-Brexit trade deal will affect the UK’s “overlooked” creative industries, as Britain edges towards the Brexit transition period deadline.... |
| 31.07.2020 | Facebook will launch officially licensed music videos in the US starting this weekend | Facebook today confirmed it will begin rolling out official music videos across its platform in the U.S., as TechCrunch first reported, as well as introduce a new Music destination within Facebook Watch. The changes, which will go into effe... |
| 29.07.2020 | Мобильные, консольные, компьютерные: игры — самое кассовое развлечение в 2019 году | Александра Кукуть 29 июля 2020, 13:22 Мобильные, консольные, компьютерные: игры — самое кассовое развлечение в 2019 году
Видеоигры стали самой прибыльной статьёй отрасли развлечений в 2019 году. Инфографику составила Statista на основе данн... |
| 14.07.2020 | Facebook to launch officially licensed music videos in the US next month | Facebook is preparing to launch officially licensed music videos on its social network in the U.S. next month, in a direct challenge to YouTube. In materials reviewed by TechCrunch, Facebook informed Page owners linked to artists they’ll ne... |
| 22.06.2020 | Music Tech Investor Perspectives During The Pandemic And Recession: David Dufresne, Panache Ventures | David Dufresne Panache VenturesPhoto: EvaBlue |
| 29.05.2020 | Post-Pandemic Music Industry Predictions: The Consolidation Of Power | Currency, Chess, Chart, Price, BankGetty |
| 19.03.2020 | BTS, Taylor Swift And Arashi: These Were The 10 Bestselling Albums In The World In 2019 | SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - JANUARY 05: Bangtan Boys arrives at the photocall for the 34th Golden Disc ... [+] Awards on January 05, 2020 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by The Chosunilbo JNS/Imazins via Getty Images) ImaZins via Getty Images |
| 05.03.2020 | Тренды-2020, музыка и аудио: в режиме Mode On | Управляющий партнёр фонда FunCubator Виктор Захарченко — о тектонических сдвигах в музыкальной индустрии, которые начались с маленьких белых наушников. В рамках цикла публикаций о трендах рынка цифровых развлечений FunTech.
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| 18.11.2019 | Music Collection Org: Revenues Are Booming… And That's Proof Why We Need Even More Draconian Copyright Laws | As we showed earlier this year in our latest Sky Is Rising report, revenue in the entertainment industry continues to shoot upwards — and not because of draconian new anti-piracy laws, but almost entirely because of successful innovations f... |
| 18.11.2019 | Music Collection Org: Revenues Are Booming... And That's Proof Why We Need Even More Draconian Copyright Laws | As we showed earlier this year in our latest Sky Is Rising report, revenue in the entertainment industry continues to shoot upwards -- and not because of draconian new anti-piracy laws, but almost entirely because of successful innovations ... |
| 07.10.2019 | Music Piracy Continues To Drop Dramatically, But The Industry Hates To Admit That Because It Ruins The Narrative | This was wholly predictable, of course. Back in 2015, we released a detailed analytical report showing that the absolute easiest and most effective way to reduce piracy was to to enable more and better licensed services that actually gave u... |
| 24.09.2019 | Music Piracy Drops Dramatically, IFPI Shows | Music piracy, in various forms, has been a problem for decades but more recently stream-ripping has emerged as the dominant source.
Three years ago music industry group IFPI sounded the alarm bell. Stream-ripping had become a bigger piracy ... |
| 08.09.2019 | The Solution to Music Piracy in Nigeria is No Joke – Or is It? | Even when one has visited many countries around the world, subtleties of cultural differences can be difficult to grasp.
What’s funny or makes sense in one country may draw a blank expression in another, which is why a recent set of stories... |
| 28.08.2019 | Chargebee raises $14 million for subscription service tools | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
By some estimates, a whopping 40% of ecommerce re... |
| 28.08.2019 | Chargebee raises $14 million for subscription service tools | By some estimates, a whopping 40% of ecommerce revenue comes from repeat purchasers. (Streaming music subscriptions alone generated $19.1 billion in 2018.) Be that as it may, only 32% of online bills are made on a recurring basis, while the... |
| 20.05.2019 | Виниловые пластинки и появление новых маркетинговых сценариев: как изменится музыкальная индустрия в 2019 году... | По данным Международной федерации звукозаписывающей индустрии (IFPI), в 2018 году доходы мировой музыкальной индустрии достигли 19,1 млрд. долларов. Рост происходит благодаря бурному развитию платных сервисов потокового аудио, которыми поль... |
| 01.05.2019 | Boomplay’s dominance and the music streaming market in Africa | Share this article:
Earlier in April, music streaming platform Boomplay raised a $20 million Series A round led by Maison Capital and Seas Capital to expand across Africa.
Boomplay, currently the fastest rising music streaming service in Af... |
| 14.04.2019 | Stream-Ripping: What Are YouTube, Spotify & Deezer Doing About it? | Credit: Pixabay
“Stream ripping, which is the process of creating a downloadable file from content that is available to stream online, is now the most prevalent form of online music copyright infringement,” music group IFPI declared in 2017... |
| 05.04.2019 | The Momentum is Shifting as Apple Music overtakes Spotify in terms of Paid U.S. Subscribers
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| 04.04.2019 | Streaming cresce e ajuda indústria da música a se recuperar | Por muito tempo, a música digital foi o terror da indústria fonográfica. Não é mais: impulsionado pelos serviços de streaming de áudio, o setor cresceu quase 10% só em 2018. Tudo indica que os números favoráveis se repetirão neste e nos pró... |
| 02.04.2019 | Streaming accounted for nearly half of music revenues worldwide in 2018 | The scales are about to tip in favor of streaming music becoming the number one driver of global recorded music revenues — a shift that appears to be on track for sometime this year. According to a new industry report, global recorded music... |
| 19.03.2019 | As Recording Industry Announces Massive Growth, Why Do We Need Article 13 Again? | A key claim by those who support Article 13 is that it’s necessary to get “fair compensation” for artists on the internet. Whenever more specifics are needed, supporters almost always point to musicians, and talk about “the value gap” and h... |
| 21.01.2019 | Copyright Negotiations Canceled As ‘Article 13’ Opposition Rises | A year ago “Article 13” was only known to a select audience with a particular interest in copyright issues.
Today, EU’s copyright reform proposals and the potential ‘Internet filters’ have gone mainstream.
Last September the European Parlia... |
| 07.11.2018 | YouTube: We’ve invested $100 million in Content ID and paid over $3 billion to rightsholders | As part of longstanding efforts to prove that it’s serious about combating piracy, Google today revealed some updated numbers from across its various digital products.
Arguably the most interesting figure from the company’s latest How Googl... |
| 07.11.2018 | YouTube: We’ve invested $100 million in Content ID and paid over $3 billion to rightsholders | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As part of longstanding efforts to prove that it’... |
| 06.11.2018 | Spotify facing growth pains in Asia, where Tencent’s Joox is more popular | Music streaming service Spotify is making headway in getting more paid users globally.
The company saw an almost 5% growth in paid subscribers to its service quarter-over-quarter, from July’s 83 million to 87 million as of now, its most rec... |
| 10.10.2018 | Globally, Almost Four Out of Ten Music Consumers Are Pirates | IFPI, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, presents itself as the “voice of the recording industry worldwide.” The organization represents 1,300 record companies globally including the biggest labels in the industry.
I... |
| 06.07.2018 | Don't Believe Those Who Wish To Diminish Digital Rights By Falsely Implying It's All Big Tech Lobbying | As we have been covering in the last couple of weeks, a controversial EU Copyright Directive has been under discussion at the European Parliament, and in a surprising turn of events, it voted to reject fast-tracking the tabled proposal by t... |
| 10.05.2018 | Songtrust has signed up over 150,000 songwriters for royalties management | The music industry is finally seeing some daylight after years of sales declines and revenue attrition. As industry organizations announce year-on-year growth, songwriters are turning to royalty management organizations like Songtrust in in... |
| 25.04.2018 | These Were The 10 Most Popular Songs In The World In 2017 | PERTH, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 02: Ed Sheeran performs in concert on the opening night of his Australian... [+] tour at Optus Stadium on March 2, 2018, in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Matt Jelonek/WireImage) |
| 25.04.2018 | VK: A ‘Notorious Pirate Site’ Praised by The Music Industry | For several years vKontakte, or VK, has been marked as a notorious piracy facilitator by copyright holders and even the US Government.
Like many other user-generated content sites, Russia’s largest social media network allows its millions o... |
| 25.04.2018 | Music Streaming Revenue Continues to Soar | Music streaming revenue surpassed sales of CDs for the first time ever last year, according to the 2018 IFPI Global Music Report. The popularity of streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music appear to be bringing the era of the CD t... |
| 12.10.2017 | Music rights collection startup Kobalt adds another $14M at $789M valuation, Bill Maris joins board | When he was still at Google Ventures, Bill Maris led a round of funding into music royalty collecting startup Kobalt, to make one of the VC arms bigger bets in the world of digital music. Now that he’s moved on to start another firm, he’s t... |
| 19.09.2017 | Stream Ripping Piracy Goes From Bad to Worse, Music Industry Reports | Free music is easy to find nowadays. Just head over to YouTube and you can find millions of tracks including many of the most recent releases.
While the music industry profits from the advertisements on many of these videos, it’s not happy ... |
| 08.05.2017 | Music royalty collector Kobalt nabs $75M led by Hearst Entertainment at $775M valuation | As music streaming continues to grow in ubiquity, a company that’s built a platform to collect royalties on music played across billions of streams is cashing in on the opportunity.
Kobalt, the European startup that has built technology and... |
| 02.02.2017 | Sources: Spotify may delay IPO to 2018 as it rethinks licensing deals | Spotify — the music streaming company with over 100 million users (40 million of them paying) — has long been seen as one of the more likely candidates among larger tech startups to go public in 2017, but it looks like this plan may be shif... |
| 30.11.2016 | Google Asked to Delete a Billion Links… and For the Most Part Complies | Google’s Transparency Report shows that Google was asked to remove over a billion links over the past 12 months and has complied with copyright holder requests 90% of the time. TorrentFreak crunched the numbers and found that Google was ask... |
| 02.11.2016 | The battleground for Beyonce: Are music streaming platforms helping new artists? | Frank Ocean released his long-awaited new album [in early October] to rapturous critical acclaim.
Despite this, many fans will have found it difficult to listen to, as the album is currently only available to stream on Apple Music.
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| 12.04.2016 | RIAA still hates the DMCA, even as streaming revenues soar | Music Player app. Does not do movies. Does not display cover art. Does not really do much besides play, pause, and track forward and back.
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| 12.04.2016 | Report Finds Global Music Revenues Increased 3.2%, but Held Back by YouTube | Digital music revenues surpassed those for physical sales for the first time ever in 2015, according to research out today from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The music business organization released the 2... |
| 11.01.2016 | Apple Music reaches a milestone in six months that took Spotify six years | In just six months, Apple Music has gained over 10 million subscribers, growing 11 times faster than rival Spotify
Launching in more than 100 countries, the rapid growth of Apple Music is predicted to make it the leading music subscription ... |
| 14.10.2015 | UK’s Electric Jukebox takes on Spotify, Apple Music with all-in-one music appliance | reader comments 18 with 15 posters participating, including story author
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| 29.08.2015 | Universal: Smart Pirate Site Owners Get Round Restrictions | For many years Sweden was one of the most prominent battlegrounds in the global file-sharing wars, playing host to dozens of unlicensed sites including the notorious Pirate Bay. As a result, Universal Music Sweden MD Per Sundin knows a thin... |
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| 27.04.2015 | The Rise of Music Monitoring Services in Africa: What is the Digital Equivalent of going Platinum? | The very first ‘gold record’ was awarded to big band musician from the swing era, Glenn Miller by RCA Records, when his album Chattanooga Choo Choo sold 1.2 million copies in 1942.
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| 18.04.2015 | Shift to online music underscores power of a handful of tech giants | - |
| 17.04.2015 | Shift to online music underscores power of a handful of tech giants | Digital music downloads and online streaming sales have now overtaken sales of CDs and records for the first time, underscoring just how fundamentally the internet has changed the way we consume.
The UK-based trade group the International F... |
| 14.04.2015 | Music Industry Wants Cross Border Pirate Site Blocks | In recent years blockades of “pirate” websites have spread across Europe and elsewhere. In the UK, for example, more than 100 websites are currently blocked by the major ISPs.
In recent weeks alone several new countries adopted similar meas... |
| 25.02.2015 | Explainer: Australia’s ‘three strikes’ plan to curb illegal downloads | Following last week’s release of a draft “three strikes” scheme by Australian ISP and telecommunications industry body Communications Alliance, the issue of online copyright infringement is again up for debate.
The draft proposal was prepar... |
| 17.11.2014 | Streaming IS The Future, But Nigerian Music Needs To Turn On The Tap | Last week, Adele’s manager, Jonathan Dickins, was reported as saying during an interview that streaming is the future whether musicians liked it or not. His comments followed news that Taylor Swift had pulled her entire catalogue from Spoti... |
| 19.08.2014 | Russian Streaming Music Service Zvooq Closes $20 Million Series A | Russia’s online music businesses march to the beat of their own drum. But they’re about to get one well-financed leader to call the tune as music streaming service Zvooq closes on $20 million in new funding.
One of the critical problems for... |
| 19.08.2014 | Russian music startup Zvooq raises $20 million ahead of Spotify’s arrival, but its real enemy is piracy | Russian digital music streaming service provider Zvooq is today announcing a $20 million Series A financing round led by online retail giant Ulmart, with participation from Helsinki-based private equity firm Essedel Capital.
The news comes ... |
| 29.07.2014 | UK Police Replacing Ads On Piracy Sites With Warnings | UK police have started replacing ads on websites that provide access to pirated or copyright infringing material with warnings to web users that the site is on a watch list — and a call for them to close the browser page in question.
The in... |
| 23.03.2014 | Music Industry Wants Pirate Site Blockades in More Countries | In recent years blockades of “pirate” websites have spread across Europe and elsewhere. In the UK, for example, more than 30 websites are currently blocked by the major ISPs per court order.
Opponents of this censorship route often warn tha... |
| 14.01.2014 | RIAA Wants Google to Implement Five-Point Anti-Piracy Plan | The music industry is not pleased with Google’s approach to their piracy problem. While the search engine rapidly removes millions of links week after week, the RIAA and IFPI want Google to be more proactive.
The music groups sent their 100... |
| 09.10.2013 | London Police Order Registrars To Shut Down A Bunch Of Websites Without Any Legal Basis; Threaten Registrars If They Don't Comply | Just a few months ago, the City of London Police announced that it had set up a special ” Intellectual Property Crime Unit” — which was immediately, and gleefully, welcomed by the legacy record labels. The whole thing seemed fairly bizarre,... |
| 07.06.2013 | Apple makes a deal with Sony Music for iRadio | Apple has now signed deals with all of the major labels for its Pandora competitor
Looks like Apple’s iRadio (or whatever they’re going to call it) is a for sure thing, as Apple has reportedly just signed a deal with Sony Music, according t... |
| 26.04.2013 | Do “Strikes” Programs Help to Reduce Piracy? | After years of negotiating and planning the U.S. “six strikes” system finally went live in February.
The Copyright Alert System follows the example of French three-strikes law Hadopi, with the difference that Internet providers cooperate vo... |
| 22.03.2013 | A Tale Of Two Studies: Can File Sharing Both Harm And Help Sales? | In part one of this series, we looked at a study that suggested that file sharing (mainly via Megaupload) likely harmed the sale and rental of digital movies. In part two, we looked at a study that suggested that file sharing of music (acro... |
| 21.03.2013 | Study: Pirates Rejoice, Illegal Downloading Doesn’t Impact Digital Music Sales | Somewhere, there is a very sad music lobby analyst shedding a tear. “The vast majority of the music that is consumed illegally by the individuals in our sample would not have been legally purchased if illegal downloading websites were not a... |
| 19.03.2013 | New research: music piracy should not be a “concern for copyright holders” | The new EU study found that "digital music piracy should not be viewed as a growing concern for copyright holders in the digital era."
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| 13.03.2013 | 6 Million People Pay For Spotify – Is That Good Enough? | Who says freemium doesn’t work? For Spotify, the hybrid free/paid business model has reeled in 6 million paying subscribers out of its 24 million total listeners. Not bad. But as the music streaming space heats up, the company will face som... |
| 05.03.2013 | Keen On… Rhapsody: How Streaming Is Radically Reinventing The Music Industry | Brian Zisk’s annual SFMusicTech conference is always a good place to gauge the temperature of the music industry. And judging by the vitality of this year’s event, things are finally beginning to look up in an industry that has been decimat... |
| 27.02.2013 | Music industry has to die to live | (MoneyWatch) The music industry is the source of two stories. One is the first global rise in sales since 1999. The other? The industry will again go after Internet users for alleged copyright infringement.
It's a curious combination that e... |
| 26.02.2013 | Thanks, Steve: Global music revenues rise for the first time since 1998 | Total global music sales reached $16.5 billion in 2012, up .3 percent, with digital revenues jumping 9 percent.
That’s not a huge move, but given that it’s the first increase in more than a decade, the music industry has a legitimate reason... |
