Music piracy costs money; does fighting it cost more? The major music labels say that they stand to lose £200 million this year in the UK alone thanks to Internet file-sharing. But one of the country's biggest ISPs is now slinging around some huge numbers of its own, saying it will actually cost ISPs £365 million a year to adopt "three strikes" rules meant to stem piracy. (ars)- Music Publishers push LyricWiki into Wikia's arms (Techdirt)
- MTV Bump? A little more than a week after making their American television debut performing at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, British band Muse debuted at #3 on the Billboard chart with 128,000 copies sold. The "Uprising" single saw a week-over-week growth of 341% after the performance, jumping from 12,040 to 53,039 units sold this week.
- Fanzines - The scene that smells of zine spirit. It should have died out with flexi discs and VHS, but now a new generation is embracing the DIY world of the fanzine. (Independent)
- Study: Twitterers More Receptive To Ads Than Other Social Net Users (paidContent)
- Eminem publisher takes Apple to court over rights. (AP)
- Nokia extends music contracts in Britain. (Reuters) Poor sales are almost certainly the reason.
Music industry dynamics suggest iTunes price hike. - Online music consumers likely to pay more if ASCAP and BMI succeed in download revenues grab. (MN Daily) The inane fight by publishers to try to get a performance royalty for downloads continues...- A big Hypebot thank-you to the Studio Manifesto blog for the kind words about my post The Music Industry Pays The Price Of Negativity. I agree wholeheartedly that , as they wrote, it is "innovation we need to fix the industry. Nothing promotes innovation more than tearing down walls and monopolies...". (SM)
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