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Chinese Experts Predict Rapid Expansion of Digital Music Market

Despite China's reputation as a haven for music pirates, industry officials in that country are predicting a rapid growth in their digital music marketplace which they believe will more than triple by 2010. Liu Guoxiong, chairman of the China Audio-Video Association has predicted that the market for digital music products in China will grow from sales of around 450 million US dollars in 2005 to hit 1.6 billion US dollars by 2010.>> Digital Music Weblog

Gotshrimp >> Glad I started to learn Mandarin Chinese two years ago ;-) I just wonder how much Chinese people can pay for a download or subscription??

iRiver gives customers the choice of switching off DRM

Posted May 29th 2006 12:03AM by Grant Robertson

An example of a hardware company that understands choice when it comes to DRM. iRiver, makers of a few really sharp mp3 players, have taken a hint from their customers and released an official version of firmware that's been floating around a few user communities. >> Digital Music Weblog Gotshrimp >> DRM is the worst possible solution for protecting IP. We are used to buy a record, CD, DVD or other piece of kit to store our music/film etc. on. After we have purchased the IP we want to use/listen/view it. Untill now this has always been possible without constraints and today we have a more easy way of accessing our entertainment etc. and this suddenly becomes a pain in the .... why?  The industry has to stop trying to take as much money as possible out of people and start supplying as much as possible compelling ways of accessing and buying entertainment. People are willing to pay for what they use, this is quite a normal thing for most of us. Today we manage the exeptions and cultivate illegal use IP, it's a strange......

iPod Killers for Summer 2006

By Richard Menta 5/18/06

Looking for an MP3 player and you are open to units other than the iPod? I   doubt any of these units will be iPod killers (that silly term their marketing   departments continue to use), but they do offer a lot of features not (yet)   found on an iPod. As we said before, individually there is no such thing as   an iPod killer, but together these players can slowly chip away at Apple's market   share. That's making the assumption that the iPod's ability to sell three out   of every four players is not sustainable. iTunes does lock a lot of users into   Apple's DRM format, so it may be a really slow chipping away. >> mp3Newswire.net

I don't see the URGE

Gotshrimp >> This weekend I downloaded MTV/MS Urge. It doesn't really work with my IPOD, but that was to be expected. iRiver has some nice devices, but I think I will stick with my Apple machine for now ;-) Second thing is that Urge crashes all the time. This is not so nice, since it f*&%$ up my system and that is just too much for me now. If I was the guy/girl responsible for the launch of Urge I would have waited a bit longer and come up with something spectacular so people will be motivated to leave their Apple in the drawer...

Fight fire with fire

Cannes sex films question role of porn, Internet

By Kerstin Gehmlich and Mike Collett-White

CANNES, France (Reuters) - Directors at the Cannes film festival this year say they are using radical images of sex to challenge mainstream pornography and its widespread availability on the Internet.rest of article on >> Reuters  

Gotshrimp >> let's get back to the dark ages and become reversed hippies
 

i (black)sheep van Sandisk

Gotshrimp >> typical way of advertising a products. In America it's eighter black or white. >> I don't

Nike and Apple tell runners: "It's worth it"

By Alexandria Sage and Martinne Geller

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Is all this exercise really helping me?

Nike Inc. said on Tuesday it is making running shoes that will tell the wearer how far and how fast he or she has run and how many calories they have burned.>> Reuters

German Authorities Drop Heavy Hammer on Uploaders

German authorities have just completed a massive round-up of illegal file uploaders, part of a continued enforcement push in the region. A total of 3,500 suspects are now facing criminal prosecution for uploading content on the eDonkey network, according to a release issued Tuesday by the IFPI. "They are likely to face damage claims of up to several thousand euros for distributing music on file-sharing networks, without permission, for millions of other to download," the organization noted. The round-up follows raids on 130 premises, which helped to gather evidence in the ongoing investigations. The Public Prosecution Service of Cologne and the Police Authority of Bergheim coordinated in the effort.>> Digital Music News

Phoenix grows like there is no tomorrow ;-)

It's quite a job to start up a family, a new company and keep everybody else happy. But at the end it will bring the joy we are all so desperately looking 4.

Sony BMG Settles CD Case

By DOW JONES/AP

Published: May 23, 2006

 

A federal judge in Manhattan, Naomi Reice Buchwald,  granted final approval yesterday to a settlement by   Sony BMG Music Entertainment of several class-action lawsuits over the use of copy-protection software on its compact discs. The settlement, which received preliminary approval in January, covers consumers who purchased CD's with copy-protection software known as XCP or MediaMax.>> NYT