Monday, August 25, 2008
Rhapsody Music Online by Michelle Arthurton
RIAA 2007 subscription trade revenue $103.3 million. That figure was $98.5 million in 2006. Rhapsody showing very little growth.
Good Ole Copyright Protection by Michelle Arthurton
Big news
It is so funny how those who set the laws, think it is ok for them to break those same laws.
Mc Cain and his folks are using a Jackson Brown song in his campaign commercial without Brown's permission now Brown is suing for a million. Good for Brown to set a precedent.
Concert Prices in the UK by Michelle Arthurton
I came across some interesting reading from a British economist who claims concert prices have spiked due to the drop in actual music sales. The industry is making up the lost income by raising prices on live shows.
Anyone thought about that.....
IFPI 2008 Report - stats on digital downloads
The IFPI in the UK is what the RIAA is in the USA.
I found these numbers interesting and wanted to share them with you all.
* Global digital music sales: 3 billion in 2007, an increase of 40% over 2006. 2003 income something like 200 million.
* Digital Sales now account for 15% of the global music market (up from 11 in 2006, 0 in 2003).
* Single track downloads: grew 53% - which is really interesting
* 500 legitimate digital music services worldwide, offering four times the stock of music megastores. (so physical is still king in terms of sales but great strides for digital music in '07
* 20 to 1 unlicensed tracks to legal downloads which is not surprising.
Illegal downloading in the UK by Michelle Arthurton
PART ONE
Big news in the United Kingdom. The British government got 6 of the 7 ISP's in Britain to agree to work to stop the illegal downloading of music.
Hard core file sharers could see their broadband connections slowed down, under measures proposed by the British government.
The consultation document proposed that hard core file sharers could have technical measures imposed, such as "traffic management or filtering and marking of legitimate content to facilitate identification".
How will this work? (1) ISPs adopt a code of self regulation to prevent the government from doing it for them. (2) labels will continue with their education campaign to prop up the value of music. (3) ISPs will send out thousands of letters every week to suspected infringers. (4) steps will be taken to deal with repeat infringers (the UK does not want to take after France's "3 strikes" proposal). (5) customers will be pointed to legal alternatives, which could be a new generation of music service formed in partnerships between labels and ISPs.
ISPs have been fighting this for years. Also worth noting is that conversations are ongoing between record labels and ISPs in the UK right now to legalize file sharing in some way.
PART TWO
Follow up to illegal downloading in the UK
* It is being said that the British government are planning to introduce a tax for downloaders 30 GBP per year, to the folks who are illegally downloading music from the internet.
* Some say that the tax is not really going to happen though, as one of the heads of the ISPs thinks this is an intrusion of privacy. But those who are using P2P will have their internet slowed down.
* There are so many articles contradicting this subject. I also read that letters have already started going out as of last week on this matter.
* The BPI sent out a letter to the Business Minister that kind of undermines the whole thing: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/31/digitalmedia.downloads?gusrc=rss&feed=media
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