Tag Archives: Internet

McDonald’s is the latest non-music company (Pepsi, Starbucks) to use free music as a marketing tool: McDonald’s is partnering with Sony’s Connect download service to offer free digital music to its patrons. Through the international Big Mac Meal Tracks promotion, McDonald’s customers who buy a Big Mac Extra Value Meal …

“Big games”: hybrids between the real world and video games, are popping up in urban areas: Somewhere out there on the streets of Greenwich Village, a fellow student was running around in a yellow Pac-Man suit. His four pursuers, code-named Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde, aimed to track him down …

Blogger has upgraded in an effort to stop the world from passing it by, and – who knows? – maybe the new version is a big step forward. Since I only used Blogger/Blogspot for about seven months back in ’02, I don’t have first-hand knowledge, but from what I have …

The P2P companies have decided that ridding their systems of child pornographers is probably a good PR move: Online file-sharing networks, used by millions of consumers to trade digital music, videos, games and software, are beginning to work with law enforcement to crack down on child-pornography purveyors who use their …

Fascinating study with all kinds of math and shit about the effect of file sharing on the music biz: Abstract: Music is an information good, and more specifically, an experience good, whose true value is realized only after its consumption. At its fundamental form, artists create (or produce) the music …

RIAA spanks another granny: A Fayetteville grandmother is facing off with the recording industry. The Recording Industry Association of America said she illegally downloaded and shared copyrighted songs. About a month ago, Barbara Johnson tried to log onto AOL and found she was cut off. She called the company. “They …

U.S. Gov. censors web service set up to evade consorship: A web-proxy service set up by the US government’s International Broadcasting Bureau to enable websurfers in Iran to evade censorship is itself massively censoring what they can see. That is the conclusion of an independent new report released from the …

The BBC is ahead of the curve with “rich” Internet content. They have begun a pilot project that could lead to all of their TV content being available on the Internet on demand: The future of television is almost upon us: the day when we spend our train or bus …

As usual I have mixed feelings. Today Microsoft came out with their new DRM, called Janus (who would have thought Microsoft would choose to identify one of its products as two-faced?), which will, in the short run give consumers more flexibility with digital content, specifically enabling “rented” material like music …

We’ve been hearing about how the Internet would revolutionize the way music is found, distributed and promoted for ten years. Until recently that wasn’t the case – at least with the majors – who have just now been dragged kicking and screaming into digital music sales over the Internet, and …