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Apple Inc. has purchased online music company Lala Media Inc., The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, in a move it said may signal an expansion of its music strategy. The newspaper said financial terms of the deal could not be learned. Lala, which...
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The war against online piracy has been a ferocious but as yet almost entirely unsuccessful struggle. It has left both the entertainment industry and the governments that have tried to buttress them bloodied and until recently at a loss as to what to do.
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RS sees bright prospects for next year, thanks to good results from adjusting its business model to that of digital music provider and entering the business of sports content. CEO Surachai Chetchotisak yesterday said the company had secured advertising...
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There is more listener appeal for legal digital music files. Photo: Roger Cummins Listeners are turning to authentic digital music files, writes Victor Keegan. Stand by for the death of illegal music downloads. It is already gathering pace, with legal...
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Sky Songs" service – who will not have to be existing Sky customers – will pay a fixed fee of up to £7.99 a month, entitling them to download one album or up to 10 songs, and to stream as much music as they like...Unlike iTunes, which is only compatible...
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CDs and other physical units accounted for more than $8.5 billion in sales, according to the Recording Industry Association of America...As consumers tune into digital music, Apple's online iTunes store is becoming the leading music retailer. Song downloads...
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Billy Bragg and Blur fight for their digital music rights Bands and artists are converging on London for the first meeting of the Featured Artists' Coalition More than 150 artists from bands as diverse as Radiohead , Soul II Soul and Blur are swapping...
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The global music trade body said this is its biggest challenge as artists and record companies miss out on payments. There has, however, been a 20% rise since last year with downloads now accounting for a fifth of all recorded music sales...Steady growth...
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Children pass on their old iPods, which already have their favourite songs on them, prompting the gap in musical tastes between generations to close. According to the survey of 1,000 people by digital music service eMusic, nearly one in five teenagers...
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But a study of digital music sales has posed the first big challenge to this “long tail” theory: more than 10 million of the 13 million tracks available on the internet failed to find a single buyer last year. The idea that niche markets were the key...
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