Streams & Downloads


World of digital music in turmoil The Business Times Singapore - May 9, 2008 The music world really seems intent on boggling the mind of the music lover who just wants to figure out how to download music he loves without breaking any laws, and listen to it where and when he wants. Salvation seemed at hand last Tuesday when Nokia launched its Music Store in Singapore. But the songs are hobbled by debilitating Digital Rights Management (DRM), which means you can only play t...
Plight of online music stores The Business Times Singapore - May 5, 2008 NOKIA'S opening of an online music store comes against the backdrop of the Singapore digital music market growing at a compounded annual rate of 34.5 per cent till 2011, up from $28US.2 million in 2006, according to research agency IDC. Speaking to BizIT, IDC Asia Pacific research manager Caludio Checchia noted, however, that despite the apparently healthy growth in digital music, the paid music s...
Apple's iTunes to sell movies on the day of their DVD release Los Angeles Times - May 2, 2008 Apple Inc. said Thursday that it would sell new releases from all the major movie studios through its iTunes online store on the same day as their DVD release. Apple's agreements give iTunes a deeper slate of new releases, such as "Juno" and "I Am Legend." The company previously had offered the latest movies from Walt Disney Co. for sale and rent, along with older movies from a few studios. It als...
Pay a flat monthly fee and get all the music you can listen to The Irish Times - May 2, 2008 Brian Boydon music 'IF YOU can't monetise the music, then monetise the experience."This rather unwieldy phrase has been doing the rounds of musicproviders for the past few years. All it really means is that peer-to-peer downloading is still destroying the music revenue stream -which, worldwide, is down from $15 billion annually 10 years ago toslightly below $10 billion now....
Free music downloads 'won't' hurt profits The Toronto Star - May 1, 2008 Offering free, unlimited music downloads to phone buyers will make money for Nokia as well as record labels, the handset maker said yesterday, dismissing talk the move would come at the expense of profits....

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