Asia Pioneers Mobile Globalisation 4.0

Seeded on Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:30 AM EDT (thinkingaloud.in)

Mobile Music is now bigger than Physical music in India

entertainment, music, mobile, downloads, digital-music, ringtones

DRM-Free: What about mobile?

Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:39 AM EDT

Music lovers threw up their hands in glee last week when one of the world's four major music labels decided for the first time that consumers could 100 percent own the music they purchased from digital music stores to do with what they wanted.

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entertainment, music, drm, digital-music, record-labels, mobilemusic

Traditional sports, technology and music

Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:46 AM EDT

Sports: "Don't fight the technology beast. Embrace it. Tradition is from another era. Update it."

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entertainment, tennis, music, umpire, cricket, digital-music, traditional-sports, line-calls, refree

Record labels' digital strategy -- do nothing - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:03 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Clearly much more needs to be done to promote digital music.

entertainment, music, riaa, music-industry, cd-sales, internet-music, interoperability, digital-sales, mobile-music

More "End DRM" calls at 3GSM

Seeded on Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:23 AM EST (moconews.net)

As the labels look to this area, the only worry is that the labels might seek unhealthy 'risk insurances'/advances for these MP3 deals which would kill the viability of the model anyway

music, mp3, digital-music, riaa, record-labels, digital-downloads, drm-free

Besides DRM - the other 800 pound gorilla in the room

Fri Feb 9, 2007 2:58 AM EST

The recent thought piece by Steve Jobs - (http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/-) the DRM-free piece posted on this blog earlier in January 2007 and the recent reports about EMI in discussions to sell DRM-free music,(http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/08/emi-drm-music-tech-med …

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entertainment, music, piracy, mp3, drm, riaa, ifpi, royalties, record-labels, internet-downloads

Will EMI Set Their Music Free? - Forbes.com

Seeded on Thu Feb 8, 2007 9:14 PM EST (Forbes)

Probably not such a coincidence then of steve Jobs' 'though piece' on DRM-free music. Here in Asia, we have been debating the same - see earlier submission on suds-digitalmusic.ewsvine.com.

music, microsoft, apple, mp3, emusic, music-labels, drm-free, internet-downloads, major-record-labels

Digital Music to outsell Physical Music in Asia-Pacific in 2007

Seeded on Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:40 AM EST (-)

The format shift from physical music to digital formats is well underway

entertainment, music, downloads, mp3, digital-music, music-industry, ringtones, mobile-music, physical-music

Digital music to outsell physical this year - www.mobile-ent.biz

Seeded on Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:32 AM EST (-)

In Asia, digital music (largely fuelled by mobile music) is ready to overtake physical sales.

entertainment, music, internet, south-korea, downloads, south-koreans, mp3, digital-music, ringtones, mobilephones

Record Labels Need a Digital Hit

Seeded on Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:55 AM EST (Business Week)

Insightful analysis of the transition taking place in the music industry. While I am yet to be convinced of the value of subscription models (at least in Asia), the need for restructured cost bases and 'digital hits' is obvious.

entertainment, music, internet, warner, emi, downloads, mp3, digital-music, sonybmg, 3g

Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs - New York Times

Seeded on Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:53 PM EST (The New York Times)

An excellent piece futher dissecting the DRM-free debate and the environment

entertainment, internet, apple, itunes, downloads, mp3, drm, digital-music, riaa, royalties

ringtones et al - is music an expression tool rather than an entertainment medium in asia?

Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:12 PM EST

"Globalization 3.something"(...and that thing called Ringtones!)

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entertainment, music, internet, downloads, mp3, digital-music, ringtones, mobile-music, ringback-tones, music-expression

EMI loses its top dogs

Seeded on Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:18 AM EST (Bloomberg.com)

The recording industry continues its dark journey of transition from the physical world to the digital one. One thing is for sure - we are nowhere near the end of the tunnel.....

entertainment, internet, beatles, downloads, mp3, digital-music, riaa, international-federation, record-labels, virgin-music-group

Moving on from the MTV Generation to the iPod Generation

Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:13 AM EST

In the 80's, MTV created a new dimension to music - the visual element. (Even though it did not make any of the music videos, packaging them together was arguably one of the best TV models of our time - where >90% of the channel is produced by third parties / record labels).

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entertainment, digital, music, internet, apple, ipod, mtv, itunes, downloads, mp3

DRM-free music - it's inevitable

Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:49 AM EST

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entertainment, music, online, internet, record, industry, downloads, mp3, drm, companies

PC Pro: News: Music stores face closure of Microsoft DRM programme - reports

Seeded on Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:55 PM EST (pcpro.co.uk)

Yet another strong reason for the drm-free MP3 wagon to roll on

entertainment, music, internet, microsoft, downloads, mp3, drm, digital-music, p2p, digital-downloads

'The Long Tail' for Indian Music

Tue Jan 9, 2007 10:33 PM EST

Digital buying behaviour is moving away from the 'hits' towards the 'niches' In his book The Long Tail, Chris Anderson postulates that digital retail consumer behaviour is dramatically different from the physical one.

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entertainment, music, mobile, downloads, mp3, digital-music, music-industry, ringtones, mobile-music, mastertones