Archive for August, 2008
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Facebook is now the largest social network in the world. But they continue to trail MySpace by a massive 36 million users in the U.S., and at current growth rates it will take them 18 years to overtake them. [MORE]
Tags: facebook, music, myspace, social network
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
SoundExchange head Jon Simson is the last person on the planet we expected to hear talking about how great Pandora’s streaming radio service is. After all, his organization proposed the very same royalty rates enacted by the US Copyright Royalty Board that threaten to put Pandora out of business. [MORE]
Tags: copyright, fees, music, online, pandora, radio, riaa, soundexchange, stream
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Wireless audio-equipment manufacturers and producers of live events are up in arms against Google’s efforts to open up a little-used patch of radio spectrum. [MORE]
Tags: audio, equipment, events, google, radio, radio spectrum, wireless
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Metallica’s Lars Ulrich loves Black Sabbath and Deep Purple — and so does his 10-year-old son. [MORE]
Source: CNN
Tags: gamers, games, guitar hero, music, rock, rock band
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Call it The Decline of Western Civilization IV: Blake Peebles, a teenager in North Carolina, recently dropped out of high school to pursue his dream of playing music. While this sounds like an everyday occurrence, there is a catch: Peebles dropped out so he could concentrate on playing Guitar Hero with hopes of becoming good enough at hitting colored plastic buttons to play in the surprisingly-lucrative world of competitive gaming. [MORE]
Tags: gamer, games, guitar hero, music, rock band
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
If you’re a fan of new music and easily offended by corporate thuggishness, you may not want to read my colleague Peter Whoriskey’s story from Saturday’s paper about the possible demise of the Pandora Web-radio service. [MORE]
Tags: download, music, pandora, radio, riaa, streaming
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Free music mixtape service Muxtape has temporarily been shut down due to pressure from the RIAA. [MORE]
Tags: download, mixtape, music, muxtape, riaa
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Music and entertainment site ArtistDirect will branch out and start posting song lyrics sometime this fall with the goal of becoming one of the Net’s biggest and most accurate lyric sites. [MORE]
Tags: artistdirect, lyrics, music, songs
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Recording industry and motion picture lobbyists are renewing their push to convince broadband providers to monitor customers and detect copyright infringements, claiming the concept is working abroad and should be adopted in the United States. [MORE]
Tags: broadband, copyright, download, mpaa, music, riaa
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
The fate of an important chunk of wireless spectrum in the U.S. is being decided by the FCC, and Google wants to rally public support for turning this spectrum over to unlicensed uses, just like we do today with WiFi. [MORE]
Tags: fcc, google, wifi, wireless, youtube
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