LimeWire, a program which was once found in one third of all PC’s in the world, has been effectively shut down. The once popular file sharing program had been beaten to death by the RIAA and will not be getting back up. . . At least not under the LimeWire name. From Business Insider: LimeWire, which [...]
As if Compact Discs didn’t have a bad enough 2010 when iTunes dropped them from their logo. Now CDs are faced with the inevitable slow decline to obsolescence. T’was a great run though. They really made some units move in the 90′s, but like all things the dream is over. Via Tech Crunch …Make no [...]
The Guardian has some more info on Google Music, which launches very, very soon. For $25 a year, consumers will be able to store songs in the cloud and access them on any internet-connected device by either streaming or downloading. For Artists: Google proposes a 50/50 split between itself and the labels (master rights holders), with [...]
Terrestrial radio, the old guard of the music industry wants to stick with you. Just like the good ol’days when you took your boombox to the sandlot and listened to Casey Kasem… Wait! None of that happened to me. I remember being forced to listen to radio hits that I didn’t like until our lord [...]
Whoa, I didn’t see this coming, another contender in the digital music world other than Google? That’s correct folks, eMusic has just added one of the big 4 Major Labels to their music catalogue. Meaning hundreds of artists and hundreds of thousands of tracks. As PaidContent.org reported, eMusic is taking the next step in it’s digital music club. New [...]
It’s been a tough 2010 for Spotify. After wowing users in the UK and EU they’ve found that America is harder to win over. A quick primer; Spotify software allows unlimited streaming of selected music from a multitude of major and independent record labels including many of the majors. But as can be read below, Spotify [...]
Apple is making more waves in the Cloud music world. Via Reuters Apple is in talks with major record labels to provide a subscription-based music service, allowing unlimited access to songs for a monthly fee, the New York Post said, citing unnamed sources. A few weeks ago, Apple VP of Internet services Eddy Cue discussed [...]
And I thought buying beer for NRP meetings was high overhead! Asymco reports that iTunes costs Apple nearly 1 billion dollars each year to run! The details can be read in great length on the Asymco page. But the main point that I took away from the article is that pretty much only Google can take [...]
Apple’s September Music event was held today with great fanfare and much joyful crying by Apple Fanboys. So what did Ol’Jobsy reveal? Well for starters, Apple sells a lot of iPods. Over 200 million sold to date, and with the introduction of the newest version of the touch screen iPods, I’m fairly certain they will [...]
I’m a big fan of meme’s, and they don’t come along much sweeter than Double Rainbow. A very excited man shows the world a beautiful double rainbow. Awesome. As is the natural meme development it was quickly remixed into a very hilarious song, aptly titled Double Rainbow Song, done by the very talented Gregory Brothers. [...]
