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NPD: Apple Rules High-End Retail Computers
via Digital Trends by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
According to a new report from research outfit The NPD Group, Apple has done more than carve out a niche for itself in the high-end retail computer market: it's actually in a dominant position. NPD found that Apple accounted for 66 percent of all U.S. retail computer sales for systems costing $1,000 or more during the first three months of 2008. Among desktop computers, that figure is...
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U.K. Intros Download Age Ratings
via Digital Trends by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is overseeing a new scheme, called BBFC.online, that will see downloadable video and game content in the UK given age ratings. The certificates will be on set-tops boxes, websites and portable players, and has already signed up major players like Fox, Disney and Warner Bros., and by month’s end around 1,000 videos will have...
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Performance, Digital Royalties Top Mechanicals
via Billboard.biz - Top Stories by By Susan Butler, N.Y. on May 21, 2008
The collecting arm for U.K. mechanical and performance rights societies MCPS and PRS today reports that combined revenue from broadcasting and digital uses for the first time have out-performed revenue from recorded physical product.
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Structures of Participation in Digital Culture -- free download scholarly essay
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 21, 2008
danah sez, "The Social Science Research Council has made 'Structures of Participation in Digital Culture' available for free download. This is a collection of fabulous scholarly articles on topics like gaming, DRM and filters, digital commodities, social network sites, contagious media, media remix, etc. It's a fabulous book."Structures of Participation in Digital Culture, edited by...
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The answer to Napster’s problems?
via p2pnet news by Jon on May 21, 2008
... get for free in your car —-If Napster worked on developing better hardware relationships they could really build a killer product. Imagine if Napster created a head-unit for cars, you could listen to any of the music from their catalog on-demand, right from your car. Then, when you want to load up your mp3 player, you simply ’star’ each song you hear on the radio, and it automatically ...
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DRM ‘not clever’ admits CRIA
via p2pnet news by Jon on May 21, 2008
... newsfeeds for your site. It’s really easy!Subscribe to p2pnet.net| | rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | |Mobile - http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.phpNet access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details. Download here.This has been nicked from: p2pnet.net - not the lamescream mediaDRM 'not clever' admits CRIA
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Napster and the Three Musketeers
via p2pnet news by Jon on May 21, 2008
p2pnet news | Music:- “Hoping for a market with the brain dead zombie niche? It’s like Audiogalaxy coming back 10 years later with a pay service. Who’d bite?”That’s a Reader’s Write to a p2pnet post saying the latest move by an increasingly desperate Crapster to stay afloat involves doing what the original Napster did before it was chewed up and regurgitated as a corporate music...
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Pearlman zu 25 Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt
via MusikWoche - News by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
Nach dem Schuldbekenntnis kam die Verkündung des Strafmaßes: Lou Pearlman muss für 25 Jahre hinter Gitter. Doch der einstige Boyband-Macher kann die Zeit im Gefängnis aus eigener Kraft verkürzen, befand der Richter.
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MySpace UK launcht Online-Radio-Show
via Musikmarkt Online by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
London - Die Online-Plattform MySpace lanciert in Großbritannien gemeinsam mit Mars eine digitale Radio-Show. "MySpace Mars Planets Radio" soll am 12. Juni erstmals ausgestrahlt werden.
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Eine Antwort für Angela Merkel
via Motorblog by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
Sie haben es wirklich getan. Wie bereits angedroht hat der Bundesverband Musikindustrie im Namen von Tokio Hotel, Herbert Grönemeyer, DJ Ötzi, 2Raumwohnung und vielen anderen an Kanzlerin Merkel
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