I’m starting a reader survey on Media Players – as there are a few assumptions I wanted to prove or understand. 1. If you have an iPod, iPhone or iTouch you use iTunes 2. You use Winamp casue you don’t want to use iTunes or WMP 3. you use windows media player as its the [...]
Damien Saunders says -research shows continued growth in file-sharing and downloading of mp3s is now common place. This survey supports the view that prosecuting the mass population is not the right approach by the labels and rights associations. British Music Rights research shows that file-sharing is done by a large number of people and even [...]
Apple has changed its tactics – a few weeks ago it launched Safari as a part of an update for iTunes users. Safari will now be changed from an update to new software not installed. Many people rightly pointed out that this was a shady tactic to get software on peoples computers. source: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/04/apple-appeases.html
Comment: Internet traffic to the iPlayer site is growing rapidly supported by outside advertising posterboards as well as reminders during TV advertising. However a lot of internet traffic seems to be sucked up by their kservices P2P network which aims to share the downloaded files with other iPlayer users. UK Internet traffic to the BBC’s [...]
comment: The reason that Apple charges different retail prices in each market is due to the differences in wholesale prices charged in each market by the major labels. Apple could use this as leverage against the labels to lower their prices in all major EU markets Apple today announced that within six months it will [...]
Album unbundling, copyright theft and difficult retail conditions contributed to a drop in album sales of 10.8% in 2007 say the British Phonographic Industry. The continued growth of download sales helped the singles market grow by 29.3% during 2007, which became the third biggest year on record for the format. Singles 2006 = 67.0m [...]
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