Report: Illegal Music Downloading Climbs
AP reports: The number of U.S. households illegally downloading music from P2P networks is increasing, not decreasing, as the RIAA would...
Competing on other than Price for Music Sales
Decommoditizing Commodity Products: We’ve been looking at price competition for retail music sales; I normally care very little...
Music Retailers Competing on Price
We previously discussed how “Music Sales were Rising on Aggressive Discounting, Price Competition and an Improving Economy.”...
Music Sales Rise on Aggressive Discounting, Price Competition...
In the most under-reported story this year, music sales rose this past quarter. For the first time in nearly 3 years, pre-recorded music...
Court to RIAA: Drop Dead
Here’s the best overview on the legal situation, from the always interesting GMSV: “Silly.” That’s how a U.S....
U.S. Music Sales Up
Does the improving U.S. economy have anything to do with this? How about a slew of new and critically well reviewed CDs? The availability...
Apple’s iTunes wins “Coolest Innovation” of...
The 99¢ Solution: Time magazine picked Apple’s iTunes as the “coolest new technology” in the music category for 2003....
Is the threat of online piracy receding?
Upbeat, from the Economist online. “To glimpse the future, big music companies should look not at iTunes’ encouraging numbers...
MIT’s legal alternative to file-swapping
Here’s a clever way around the file sharing conundrum: Essentially a streaming audio over cable (similar to a Satellite Radio, only...
iTunes Associate Program?
Since we’ve been looking at the business models of so many streaming, peering and music industry start ups, I thought it would be...