Posted in Apple, Content Redistribution, DRM, DVD, Films, Format War, Google, HD-DVD, Intel®, Leopard, Movie Download, Music, Technology, blu-ray, iPhone, iPod/iTunes, microsoft, tagged Apple, iPhone, iPod, MacWorld, Randy Newman, Steve Jobs on January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you didn’t see the 90 minute MacWorld keynote here is a quick summary of the product launches yesterday. Jobs photo courtesy of Apple.
Ad: Hi I’m a Mac and I’m a PC — New Years ad ran which poked fun at Vista…what are you going to do in ’08… Then Jobs enters stage.
Time [...]
Posted in CES, Content Redistribution, Copyright, DRM, Music, Oregonian, Piracy, Politics, Privacy, RIAA, Technology, VHS/Betamax, iPod/iTunes, tagged CES, downloading, Music, RIAA on January 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just days before the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) where legendary musicians and the buzz of new product introductions will showcase how consumers manage and enjoy their digital media “everywhere”, the Washington Post is reporting that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has a federal case against Jeffrey Howell, an AZ, man who kept a [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Music, Piracy, iPod/iTunes, prediction, zune on April 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Apple will sale EMI music without anti-piracy (DRM – digital rights management) technology — Steve Jobs proclaimed in February that music companies should sell their music DRM-free. Evangelizing that DRM-free music would create a truly interoperable music marketplace.
About a month later (4/2/07), in agreement with music label EMI, Apple is making EMI songs available [...]
Posted in Apple, DRM, Music, Piracy, Sony, Technology, iPod/iTunes, zune on February 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Steve Jobs provided a good read on his view and thoughts of the music industry yesterday and basically asks for DRM free music, something the entire world has been asking for. Jobs can be a catalyst, but towards what? What should the music industry do?
He makes excellent points in his post:
Today’s most popular iPod [...]
Posted in Apple, Music, Technology, Warner Music, iPod/iTunes, microsoft, zune on December 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Hardly a day streams by that someone in the music industry doesn’t pontificate that “billions” have been ripped off by music users…as example:
Universal Music CEO, Doug Morris “These devices (reference to iPod) are just repositories for stolen music, and they all know it”… from a press gather on why they charge a royalty of $1 [...]
Posted in Apple, Blogroll, Music, iPod/iTunes, zune on November 2, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I recieved the below teaser email from Microsoft today on the new bundled personal media player/service which goes on sale November 14th. The Zune site is LIVE today as well as the animated shorts on the arts.net site. Interesting site, but as appealing as the device and service look…I’ll stay the course [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Music, Robbie Robertson on October 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Groov’n to my iPod this morning I was listening to Robbie Robertson – “Contact from the Underworld Red Boy” (1998), (http://theband.hiof.no/albums/contact_from_the_underworld_of_red_boy.html) and heard a song called Sacrifice. I’ve listened to this song before, but didn’t think much about the lyrics. Today was different in that something in the song caught my attention. The song is [...]
Posted in Apple, Blogroll, Music, Technology, iPod/iTunes on October 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Best Buy announced (http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/061005/20061005005675.html?.v=1) plans to launch a digital music store powered by RealNetworks’ Rhapsody (http://www.rhapsody.com) service. The Music Store (http://www.bestbuy.com/digitalmusicstore), which launched yesterday (Oct. 15th), features tight integration with memory card maker SanDisk’s line of Sansa Rhapsody MP3 players (http://tinyurl.com/dz44x). Anyone who purchases the $139 (2GB) or $249 (8GB) Sansa e200 Rhapsody player will [...]
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