After finally succumbing to pressures from the RIAA, Google will now be censoring certain search terms related to music piracy. More specifically, the king of all search engines will be removing terms such as “torrent” and “Rapidshare” from its instant and autocomplete services. As several of the affected services were quick to point out, this [...]
And the pattern continues – stop one way of obtaining music illegally and then something completely new comes about. This time, NYU professor David Darts has created an offline file-sharing network that can be used to anonymously share files without being connected to the internet. Also on a related note, the famous Pirate Bay brain [...]
It’s a weird concept to purposely make a video with the goal of having it go viral, especially when the best ones weren’t made with any such intention. But as it turns out, it looks like indie-rock band Best Coast may have given us a method to the madness of creating a viral hit. Check [...]
Up until now, BMI has only paid royalties for live performances based on the songs played on the top 200 tours. But recently, the PRO launched “BMI Live” – an online program that lets songwriters of all levels upload their set lists and receive royalty payments for the public performance of those songs. How lucrative [...]
The war on piracy seems a lot like the war on drugs – shouldn’t they be trying to do something more productive? But onward the RIAA and their posse will go because there’s a new kid on the block, file-hosting websites. We know them as Rapidshare and Megaupload, and they’re starting to become equally as [...]
If you can’t stop something from happening…don’t fight it, go with it! Everyone in the industry is now trying to figure out how to embrace free music, but the rock band The Hoosiers schooled us on some marketing know how by offering a song for free and giving fans choices on what they wanted to [...]
The results are in! According to the all-time top iPhone and iPad app lists released by Apple, Music-related apps are among the most popular. Though gaming apps may be winning the numbers game, Pandora was one of the most popular across both platforms and additionally, Shazam and SoundHound proved to be very popular as well. [...]
I want to start my own clothing company?
So much ingenuity and ambition however the technical side usually stumps most of us. The following is a list of business and legal topics/terms one should keep while operating an apparel based business.
1. How to Brands survive Retail either e-commerce or in-store
2. Changing consumer dynamics
3. Cultural trends and [...]
I know right? I came across this article on TechDirt and found it interesting… the time has come to give awarding the right to reproduce, distribute and perform music THROUGH THE INTERNET a face lift. Bennett Lincoff has proposed oa new copyrgiht term aimed to quell the digital music issues: Behold the DIGITAL TRANSMISSION RIGHT!
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Cell phone users who hack, root or jailbreak their Phones DO NOT HAVE TO BE afraid to go face to face with their cellular phone providers. Yes, the Federal Government has found that independently created applications used on At&T, Verizon, T-mobile and Sprint is not a violation of cellular contract. Most notably Apple alleges that jailbreaking [...]