Business, Services And Guides For Music Labels
Nearly two decades of legal threats and lawsuits have had little impact on music piracy, a new study finds. Instead, the companies the industry hates — YouTube, SoundCloud, and Spotify — have done the most to save the music business. So why didn’t all those lawsuits work? As the music industry pops the champagne on its best […]
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Just say No to MP3 ripping. In a joint effort, The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) have taken Youtube-mp3.org to court. The RIAA announced the action against the service on their own website today. The lawsuit was filed in a […]
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Just say No to MP3 ripping. In a joint effort, The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) have taken Youtube-mp3.org to court. The RIAA announced the action against the service on their own website today. The lawsuit was filed in a […]
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If it looks like, walks like, and even talks like a hoax, then it probably is a… About a week and a half ago, a user by the name of TechRax posted a “how-to” video on YouTube supposedly detailing how to enable the missing headphone jack on your iPhone 7. Titled “Secret Hack To Get […]
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Turns out electronic music pre-dates Kraftwerk. In fact, the earliest recording of computer generated music dates back to 1951. Turns out legendary code-cracker Alan Turing did more than just decrypt Axis messages and win world wars. Considered one of the founding fathers of modern computer science and artificial intelligence, Turing was also a pioneer in […]
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Not only does someone still own the copyright to the ‘Nazi Anthem,’ they’re still trying to make money off of it. And YouTube is helping them. If you think copyright law has problems, you haven’t seen the ugliness of this latest copyright takedown case. Just last week, the creator of the documentary, You Don’t Know […]
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Because, convenience, bro. Despite its inherent flaws and those spelling its imminent doom, SoundCloud doesn’t appear to be going anywhere for the foreseeable future. We’ve decided to take a look at the top 10 tools to convert and download SoundCloud files to MP3. For this list, I’ve used a link to an unnamed, uncopyrighted SoundCloud […]
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This week in the Music Business: Are vinyl sales going up or are they dying out; Quitting smoking may have weakened Adele’s voice; Shawty Lo died in a tragic car accident; and Facebook messed up big time on their video metrics. Our music business weekly roundup… Monday Monday kicked off with some strange hissing noises. […]
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Smoking can kill. But can it actually help your vocal chords? British singer and songwriter Adele believes that giving up smoking may actually have harmed her singing voice. She spoke with Canada’s eTalk platform and jokingly said, “The people with the best voices, they always smoke. I’ve given up smoking and I’m convinced that’s made […]
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Last year, Digital Music News started raising serious questions about Facebook video counts and session metrics. That included specific suspicions of wildly inflated average session lengths. But we weren’t the only one — and one year later, a Facebook executive is apologizing for that exact issue. Facebook has been bull-charging against YouTube for more than […]
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