by Mike McGuire | November 16, 2010 | 2 Comments
I vowed I would not resort to ‘Long and Winding Road” references to describe the process that led finally to the Beatles catalog being available on iTunes. What’s it mean to the music industry and to iTunes? For one thing, iTunes chief Eddie Cue can finally check off the “get the Beatles catalog" item on [...]
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by Mike McGuire | November 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
At first glance, the Entertainment ID Registry (EIDR) strikes one as one of those consortia that could easily end up claiming to want to work together as an industry to solve common problems , but either out of disinterest or distrust, never quite pull off codifying and spreading whatever standard was originally desired. Yet, I’m [...]
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by Mike McGuire | October 27, 2010 | Comments Off
As the World Series gets ready to take over more than a few news cycles in the coming week or so, it’s interesting to consider how consumers will watch and track the series. It’s possible that the 2010 World Series will be remembered not just for the games themselves but also as being a milestone [...]
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by Mike McGuire | June 25, 2010 | Comments Off
I’m over in Europe running about visiting clients at the moment, so it was interesting to be in a different part of the world when the news that a judge effectively gutted Viacom’s $1billion copyright infringement case against YouTube/Google. (Yes, yes, I know, Viacom will appeal which means this case will drag on for awhile.) [...]
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by Mike McGuire | June 25, 2010 | Comments Off
HP has apparently forgotten all about it’s ill-fated attempt in 2004 to leverage the iPod’s then-growing popularity and the mushrooming consumer interest in online music distribution and digital portable music players. Why? Because it’s reportedly picked up Seattle-based Melodeo, developer of various online music applications (including one of the earliest cool iPhone apps for the [...]
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by Mike McGuire | January 27, 2010 | 1 Comment
Rumors being what they are, much of what Steve Jobs announced at the iPad launch event didn’t come as a surprise to the overload crowd at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. The iPad is a “tweener” that fits nicely between an iPhone/iTouch and netbook computer. With a 9.7-inch screen weighing in at 1.5 [...]
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by Mike McGuire | December 15, 2009 | Comments Off
A couple of items crossed the mailbox today during that slow run-up to Xmas. My esteemed colleague Andrew Frank pointed me at this story which noted that with iMeem’s sale to MySpace, MySpace did not agree to also purchase the debts to artists who were owed money for sales conducted via iMeem’s SNOCAP-based storefronts would [...]
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by Mike McGuire | December 5, 2009 | 3 Comments
Can “music as a service” really work? While Rhapsody and Napster, and to a lesser degree Nokia’s Comes with Music offering, have built audiences, to be sure, in terms of revenue generated and user accounts, they’ve lived in the shadow of the Apple’s iTunes store. Now comes MOG, purveyors of an active music-blogging platform reaching [...]
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by Mike McGuire | October 23, 2009 | Comments Off
So, since France’s three-strikes law has made it through its legislative hurdles and is going to be enacted. If actually works as intended, we should quickly see significant growth in sales of iTunes and other legitimate online services operating in France, correct? I’m doubtful of that actually happening but I’ve been accused of being a [...]
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by Mike McGuire | July 21, 2009 | 1 Comment
Tis’ the season for contrition, or so it seems. First Pirate Bay’s buyers last month claimed that they planned to leave their pirate ways behind and offer a legit online music service. Now, it appears that Altnet, parent company of Kazaa – one of the post-Napster file-trading protocols that hit the market soon after Napster [...]
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