Christopher Joel

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Pardon My French

September 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Industry News

I read this article on Hypebot today and I can’t help saying: WTF??!?!
It appears that performance rights organizations (PROs), ASCAP, BMI, & SESAC, are suing AT&T Mobile over their use of the 30 second clips of songs in order to sell said songs.  These are the same clips that iTunes, Amazon, and pretty much every [...]

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Napster Launches MP3 Download Store

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Industry News

I’m thinking it’s a little late.  Napster would have been revolutionary with this had it come out five years ago.  Now, they are just another in a series of stores like this and this isn’t really big news.  I’d still sell on there, of course, but it’s not that big of a deal in music [...]

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iTunes subscriptions

March 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Industry News

I have never liked the idea of subscriptions for music.  You pay $x amount per month and you get to play all the music you want.  Stop paying, you’re outta luck.  It just seems mobster-ish to me, which is par for the course for record labels, but not for Apple.  So I’m a little queezy [...]

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