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New New Musical Express - November 2009

 
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    • 1 Nov 2009, 19:08

    New New Musical Express - November 2009



    Links:

    Link to my gang 09 - Featured Albums 2009
    Spotify - albums not in Last.fm
    Spotify Collaborative Playlist Your selections and suggestions for 2009.

    StumbleUpon - Music
    StumbleUpon - Last.fm

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    Edited by Babs_05 on 14 Dec 2009, 04:01
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    Albums Added This Month

    * Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport n/a anywhere yet. Tagged in hope.

    * Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More you should know some of these tracks from last year's EP. Full tracks, tagged.

    * Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3 (Explicit) Not in Last.fm yet. Listen in We7 or Spotify
    http://open.spotify.com/album/03JboE7JdI2P2lZjzVFjUP

    * Shirley Bassey - The Performance Superb album of songs written for the diva by luminaries such as Rufus Wainwright, John Barry, Gary Barlow, Pet Shop Boys, Tom Baxter, KT Tunstall and more. Further info. Sensational. Full tracks. Tagged.

    * Adrian Crowley - Season Of The Sparks introspective, autumnal, morose fireside music for when the wind's howling. Ghostly beautiful. Not in Last.fm yet. Link to Spotify
    http://open.spotify.com/album/7AuvCYHMW9rwUgyXbawJoq

    * Stereophonics - Keep Calm and Carry On Tagged in advance of release. Innocent is their best song in years.

    * Smokey Robinson - Time Flies When You're Having Fun with inspired cover of 'I Want You Back' as the last track. Full tracks. Tagged.

    * Lissie - Why You Runnin' 5-track EP. Pretty folk/country/rock. Reminiscent of KT Tunstall but more intimate. Full tracks. Tagged.

    * Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros - 2009 Listen to these three tracks before they get over-hyped. Quirky, creative modern hippies led by former singer of Ima Robot. Full tracks. Tagged.

    * Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue Seattle grunge pioneers return after 14 years, having survived the loss of their frontman, Layne Staley. Full tracks. Tagged.

    * Hurricane Bells - Tonight Is The Ghost Not in Last.fm yet, hopefully will be soon. Solo album from Longwave frontman Steve Schiltz. Tagged in hope.

    * Hyperstory - hyperstory debut album from L.A. musician Scott Blevins. "Varied sonic textures". Tagged.

    * Fat Freddy's Drop - Dr. Boondigga and The Big BW NZ reggae. Platinum in four days with good reason. Not in Last.fm yet. Tagged in hope.
    http://open.spotify.com/album/11z7rEPnN3kNGufn9I281r

    * McAlmont & Nyman - The Glare unlikely collaboration that makes for intriguing listening. Not in Last.fm yet, and when it is, I'm not sure how they will present the artist names - Michael Nyman and David McAlmont. Link to Spotify:
    http://open.spotify.com/album/4KVnVGolVPlWl7GML4JgjI

    * Norah Jones - The Fall Delightful. Tagged in hope.

    * Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures stoner rock from rock legends of today. Full tracks. Tagged.

    * NED COLLETTE & WIREWALKER - Over the Stones, Under the Stars Australian singer-songwriter and friend. Don't know much about this yet. Full tracks. Tagged.

    * The Echo Falls - The Echo Falls Debut album, folk-rock. Slighty old-fashioned, hippy, easy-listening, something to break up our 2009 radio. Full tracks. Tagged.

    * Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek - Blank Grey Canvas Sky Folk and electronica collaboration. Tagged.

    * Elizabeth Fraser - Moses single. Tribute song.

    * Gomez- A New Tide released March 2009. Tagged.

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    * Spotify - albums not in Last.fm
    * Spotify Collaborative Playlist Your selections and suggestions for 2009.


    Edited by Babs_05 on 30 Nov 2009, 18:57
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    • 1 Nov 2009, 19:15

    Journal: New Music November 2009, by Nialloleary

    Journal: New Music November 2009, by Nialloleary.

    Extract (see journal for more):


    Hudson Mohawke new album entitled “Butter"
    (Rated at 4/5) Q RECOMMENDS
    Described as “Psychedelic hip hop mash-up. Straight outta Glasgow.”
    Recommended track to download…..”Joy Fantastic”
    http://http://www.myspace.com/hudsonmo


    deadmau5 new album entitled “For Lack Of A Better Name"
    (Rated at 4/5) Q RECOMMENDS
    Recommended track to download…..”Word Problems”
    http://www.myspace.com/deadmau5


    Various new album entitled "Steppa’s Delight Vol II".
    (Rated at 3/5)

    “Just when you thought all dubstep was beginning to sound the same, it reinvents itself. This round up of present and future stars suggests it’s evolution rather than revolution though.

    The second installment of Soul Jazz's 'Present to Future' dubstep primers jams together an essential set of recent classics and stepping winners from a slightly different pool of artists. Romanian stepper TRG contributes his lush dub/2step raver 'Broken heart' from the fantastic Hessle Audio label, while Croydon yout Quest takes it back home with a cut from his classic split 12" for Anti Social Entertainment on 'Hardfood'. Elsewhere there's new cuts from fresh faces Shonx with the shockingly good 'Canton', and Bristols dystopian dubber Gatekeeper with MC Grizla on 'Shade Darker'. The last side is saved for perhaps two of the scenes finest achievements from Martyn and Shackleton, Martyn's 'Broken' being a firm favourite round these parts and obviously Shackleton's deep blue masterpiece 'Blood on my hands' which still induces the same effect now as it did the first time we heard it, sheer class. This is absolutely ideal entry level gear for anyone new to the sound, but i'm quite sure a lot of you have gaps to fill in your collection that could be nicely plugged with this essential comp.
    Recommended track to download..... ‘Shackleton'-'Blood on my hands'
    http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/


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    • 4 Nov 2009, 23:40

    Last.fm November 4th site update

    acreature said:
    Hello!

    After a couple of larger site releases we've got a quieter one for you today. Almost all of today's release was back-end/internal changes, but here's some details.


    • XBox improvements. Last.fm will be coming to your XBox 360 so we've been making sure our systems can handle it and everything will work as it should. Even if you haven't got an XBox this results in a more reliable and slightly faster Last.fm experience for you.

    • Web Service improvements. Our web services let people use Last.fm to make their own apps. We've got some new methods and additions to the old ones. You can read all the details in the Web Services forum now.

    • Backend switches. There's a couple of internal services that have been retired in this release. You won't notice any difference, but one removes a single point of failure and another frees up our resources to focus on more exciting things.

    • Support fixes. We fixed 17 bugs in this release, mostly with our internal & moderator tools. Better mod tools help keep Last.fm a friendly, spam-free place.

    • Retirement of widgets & Facebook apps. Widgets and the Facebook apps have been around for a while now, but haven't been well-maintained recently as our focus shifted to building up the Last.fm API platform (and the 3rd party apps/widgets/tools it enables). As of today they won't be available any more. But don't despair! This lets us take care of our image charts, and there's a lot of third-party apps built using our API that are way cooler than our widgets ever were. Check out Build for some examples, and Facebook's application directory too.


    That's it for now. We'll be back in 2 weeks with another update.


    Source: Forums


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    • 6 Nov 2009, 19:25

    Sony and Last.fm open fantasy festival

    03 November 2009

    LONDON - Sony and Last.fm have teamed up to launch what they claim is the world's first fantasy music festival.



    The competition, in the style of fantasy football game, will give music fans across Europe a €1 million budget to put together their fantasy festival line up.

    Last.fm users will be encouraged to invite friends to compete through Facebook Connect and email. The music service will score musicians based on trends, listening data and online buzz, to determine the rankings, beginning in mid-November.

    Weekly prizes will be awarded to the top competitor, as well as a grand prize at the end of the six month competition.

    Miles Lewis, senior vice president of international sales at Last.fm said the campaign taps into the community side of the music platform, giving players the chance to build up an accurate picture of up and coming acts from around the world.

    "Last.fm has always been about bringing to life the social side of music," he said. "Sony is going to engage with this community in a very smart way that I'm sure will get our users buzzing and our robust data will make sure that the best festival line ups will win."

    The campaign is the brainchild of Altogether, while OMD International was responsible for the partnership with Last.fm.

    Source: Revolution Magazine


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    • 6 Nov 2009, 19:43

    Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able [Official Music Video]

    Beautiful bizarre stop-motion claymation video for one of the best songs from Veckatimest.

    Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able



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    • 12 Nov 2009, 20:35

    Eels - Little Bird

    New track from Eels from another new album, End Times, due in January.

    Listen in Spinner -
    http://www.spinnermusic.co.uk/2009/11/11/eels-little-bird-song-premiere/


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    • 14 Nov 2009, 21:30

    TubeRadio.fm – a super-slick ‘Spotify for music videos’

    By Martin Bryant on November 14, 2009

    Scrub all memory of the dodgy YouTube/Last.fm mashup we covered last week because we’ve found another one and this is so, so much better.

    TubeRadio.fm is a search engine for music videos on YouTube but with the ability to build and share video playlists of songs with others. The overall product comes across very much like ‘Spotify for music videos’.

    The slick iTunes-esque interface allows you to search for music either via YouTube or via Last.fm’s database of releases. Then you can add individual tracks or whole albums to a playlist. As you play tracks, the video plays from YouTube alongside artist information from Last.fm with lyrics (where available) displayed from Lyricsfly.com.

    TubeRadio.fm isn’t just for personal use though, it’s got the beginnings of a strong social side thanks to playlist sharing. You can share your music taste through Twitter, Facebook, by email or by a copying a direct URL. You can even befriend other users of the service and show off your finely crafted playlists to them directly on the site.

    Everything about TubeRadio.fm screams quality – right down to small touches like the way a floating thumbnail for a video that appears when you hover over an item in your playlist.

    It was developed by a London-based duo over four months and they are currently hard at work developing version 2 of the service. The revamp is due for launch next month but don’t wait for that – give it a go today.



    Source: The Next Web


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    • 15 Nov 2009, 15:53

    Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing?

    November 12, 2009

    "The graph the record industry doesn’t want you to see."

    http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/blog/2009/11/12/do-music-artists-do-better-in-a-world-with-illegal-file-sharing/


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    • 18 Nov 2009, 19:02

    Last.fm November 18th site update

    acreature said:
    Hello!

    We've got a slightly sneaky update for you this week – so sneaky we pushed it out on Monday. There's nothing on the website to show off, but we wanted to keep you up to date with what we've been working on:

    • Last.fm is now on your XBox 360. Yesterday Microsoft and Last.fm launched the XBox 360 app we've been talking about. We put a lot of work into making sure this all went smoothly – speeding up web service calls, network maintenance, some last-minute bugfixes, and a sweet monitoring setup for the launch itself. You can find out more in our XBox section, and there's a group to talk to your fellow XBox users and get help with the app.

    • Create your own Fantasy Festival with Sony. Since the last update Sony's Fantasy Festival has gone live. You've probably already seen this, as the link's in the header now, but if not you can create your own ideal festival lineup and compete with your friends over whose festival is best. You can also win some cool prizes.

    • Bugfixes. We've had our hands full with the XBox launch so we only got seven bugs fixed in this release, but we've fixed the excessive tea pages, events losing their venues, a web services bug, and a couple of others.


    That's it for now. See you here in 2 weeks!

    Source: Forums


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    • 24 Nov 2009, 18:08

    Music: Too Expensive to Be Free, Too Free to Be Expensive

    November 17, 2009, By Eliot Van Buskirk


    The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," the first music video played on MTV, applies as well to online streaming services now as it did to radio in the '80s.


    MySpace, rumored to be on the verge of purchasing the free music streaming site imeem, is struggling to keep up with its own payments to music copyright holders, according to a top News Corp executive — a problem that has plagued every other licensed free music service.

    The digital music doubters could be right with the contention that advertising revenue can’t cover the costs of licensing music. Meanwhile, illegitimate free music sources continue to proliferate, rendering paid music subscriptions irrelevant for most music fans.

    Advertising was supposed to be music’s magic bullet, enabling fans to get the free music they’re going to find anyway while contributing at least something to copyright holder coffers. That dream is fading fast. As legitimate sources for free on-demand music dry up, fans will likely head back to file sharing networks, which is bad news for everyone involved in music — except for, perhaps, hard drive manufacturers.

    Evidence and rumors are mounting to support the idea that free music websites are unfeasible.

    * MySpace Music — the on-demand, ad-supported music service not to be confused with the band pages on the site — is losing money and could soon add a subscription option. News Corp Digital head Jon Miller answered his own questions on the topic last week at a conference in Monaco. “Do I think the freemium model works, consistent with earlier discussions? Yes I do. Has that been figured out? No, it hasn’t, but it’s certainly something to look at,” said Miller. “Is [Myspace Music] profitable? No, it’s not. On an operating basis it’s getting in, but no, because of the payments due to the music companies.”
    * Ad-supported music service imeem, which has been the subject of considerable speculation related to its running out of money over the past year, is reportedly in late-stage discussions to be acquired by MySpace, which has its own problems, as mentioned above. Like MySpace, imeem’s biggest challenge has been covering payments to labels.
    * MOG, which planned to launch a free, ad-supported on-demand streaming service, decided that was impossible and went with a $5/month subscription instead.
    * Spotify pushed back its U.S. launch to early next year, with CEO Daniel Ek admitting that when the service launches in the states, it might not be the same as it was in Europe where music fans enjoy a free, ad-supported version of the software or a 10-euro-per-month subscription option that removes the ads. A bundled version of the service that comes with your smartphone or ISP is an increasingly likely option.
    * Google added play buttons to its music search results that allow anyone to listen to a song once for free through Lala or MySpace’s iLike service, after which they have to pay for it. If Google can’t figure out a way to support something with ads, it arguably cannot be done.
    * YouTube remains the only licensed, free, on-demand music service that promises to break even, mostly because the visual nature of the services makes users more likely to encounter advertisements on the site. When the labels launch their Vevo YouTube spin-off, they hope to generate even more money from ads than YouTube does.

    The upshot of the labels’ licensing demands: Music will continue its transformation into something that accompanies a visual element.

    Source: Wired


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    • 14 Dec 2009, 00:19

    Digital divide over filesharing plans

    Friday 20 November 2009, by Richard Wray

    Digital economy bill proposals receive welcome from music and film, but anger from ISPs and privacy campaigners

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/20/filesharing-crackdown


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    • 14 Dec 2009, 00:24

    Lady Gaga Earns Slightly More From Spotify Than Piracy

    Written by enigmax on November 21, 2009

    Piracy is without a doubt, truly evil. It doesn’t help the artists, it robs them of their rightful revenue and is such a poor basis for a business model, it’s unworthy of consideration. Of course, new streaming sites are miles better, offering a legal way to listen to free music. Hmm – Lady Gaga got a million plays on Spotify and earned $167.

    Full article: http://torrentfreak.com/lady-gaga-earns-slightly-more-from-spotify-than-piracy-091121/


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    • 14 Dec 2009, 00:27

    Playdar Downloads



    Downloads for Mac OS X and Windows
    http://www.playdar.org/download/


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    • 14 Dec 2009, 00:45

    Linn sounds death knell for the CD

    By James Berrill | 23 November 2009

    Is this it for CDs? Linn, the company that produced what some consider the best-sounding CD player available, the Sondek CD12, has said that it will stop making CD players from next year. Gilad Tiefenbrun, the company's managing director, said it would concentrate on making systems that play downloaded music. Sales of its CD players have dropped by more than 40 per cent in the past two years, Tiefenbrun said.

    Full article: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-11/23/linn-sounds-death-knell-for-the-cd.aspx


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    • 14 Dec 2009, 01:09

    Millions using social media on Xbox Live

    November 23, 2009, by Daniel Terdiman

    According to Microsoft spokesman David Dennis, the first-week figures show that at least 2 million Xbox Live users have logged into Facebook, and that half a million Last.fm accounts were created in the first 24 hours of availability. Dennis didn't address how many Xbox Live users have used the service's Twitter feature, except to say that there have been "tweets from nearly every market where we have Xbox Live."

    Full article: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10403984-52.html


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    • 14 Dec 2009, 01:12

    Last.fm interview: Behind the music

    By Rory Reid on 25 November 2009



    People who listen to Last.fm have scrobbled an incredible 275,000 years of audio around the world. In the time it took you to read that last sentence, they scrobbled a whopping 4,000 songs. In its first week on Xbox Live, 120 million minutes of music were streamed. The company is also in love with open-source software and Intel.

    We know this because we hung Matthew Ogle, the company's head of Web development, over a barrel of piranhas until he sung like a canary.

    When we got bored with the piranhas, we tickled his feet until he told us how Last.fm pays labels and artists, the kinds of hardware and software it uses to ensure smooth streaming, and how the London-based company plans to bring about the destruction of Spotify. (Disclaimer: Last.fm is owned by the same company as CNET UK, CBS Interactive.)

    Yeah, we're pretty good to you. The full, undiluted interview is below. Grab it while it's hot.

    Full article: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/0,39029432,49304380,00.htm


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    • 14 Dec 2009, 01:15

    MOG Promises $5 Monthly All-You-Can-Eat Music Starting December 2nd

    November 24th, 2009 | by Barb Dybwad

    Now a new entrant will be breaking onto the scene at a $5 price point for all-you-can-stream playback and what looks to be a very nice interface for managing your music and playlists. The MOG Music Network has existed previously as an aggregated collection of MP3 blogs along with editorial curated content focused on identifying hot new trends in the music world. On December 2, they’ll be launching their ambitious new subscription service that hopes to find the sweet spot in the music subscription space.

    Tracks will stream at a high-quality 256Kbps in the for now browser-based service, which has plans to launch a mobile music component by as early as the end of 2009. The MOG service will be neck and neck with Spotify (Spotify), another subscription-based music service that will offer some advertising supported and some paid levels of use when it crosses the Atlantic to launch in the U.S.

    Full article: http://mashable.com/2009/11/24/mog-launches-dec-2/


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    • 14 Dec 2009, 01:18

    Playlick : Create and import playlists, albums and podcasts

    Playlick.
    Playback powered by Playdar

    http://www.playlick.com/


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    • 14 Dec 2009, 01:21

    Sony's fantasy festival hooks 13,000 Last.fm users at launch

    by Daniel Farey-Jones, Brand Republic 19-Nov-09,

    LONDON - The Sony Fantasy Festival competition, a promotion with Last.fm, has launched with more than 13,000 people having signed up to take part by the middle of its second day.

    The competition gives people across 32 countries the chance to win weekly Sony prizes and an overall prize of a VIP experience to the Glastonbury festival for four people.

    Full article: http://www.brandrepublic.com/News/968382/Sonys-fantasy-festival-hooks-13000-Lastfm-users-launch/


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    • 14 Dec 2009, 01:25

    Mininova torrent site goes legit

    November 27, 2009 6:00 pm by Sam Kieldsen

    Mininova, one of the most popular torrent sites on the web, will now host only legal downloads through its Content Distribution service. Read on for the lowdown on the file-sharing Shangri-La’s downfall.

    Mininova’s decision to turn off the torrent taps comes as a result of a Dutch court ruling from last August (echoes of The Pirate Bay’s fate), which ordered the torrent site to prevent uploads of certain files. Mininova has been attempting to filter out these illegal torrents over the past couple of months with little success, which has left the site with no choice but to limit its service to Content Distribution.

    Content Distribution allows artists and producers to distribute their content for free, via Bittorrent. It’s 100 percent legal and will keep Mininova running, but file sharers looking to get their fix of free movies, music and software will have to find a new source of torrents.

    Source: http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/11/27/mininova-torrent-site-goes-legit/


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    • 14 Dec 2009, 01:28

    Playgrub: Music Playlists for the Playdar Content Resolver

    Written by Dana Oshiro / November 27, 2009

    Developer Toby Padilla was one of the first to defend music content resolver Playdar when it was released to developers. Since then Padilla has contributed more than just his morale support. The former VP of Desktop and Client Software at Last.fm has since built Playgrub - a bookmarklet that scrapes supported sites for music metadata in order to create playlists.

    Padilla's Playgrub is one of the missing pieces in the Playdar puzzle. In early November we wrote about Playdar - a project created by former Last.fm founder Richard Jones and XSPF music playlist format creator Lucas Gonze. Rather than automatically playing a music file via a streaming service, Playdar finds matching local files and plays those first. From there you can listen to music through Playdar-based players including Playlick and Spiffdar. The piece between finding the music and playing it, is Padilla's Playgrub. By installing the Playgrub bookmarking tool, users can create playlists from listed songs on Last.fm, Songkick, the iTunes charts, MusicBrainz and Grooveshark. While many would question the legality of Playgrub, the service does not scrape music from these sites, just the lists. From here Playdar detects any files that exist on your local hard drive and you're free to play the songs you own in the order listed on your favorite music site. While so many services concentrate on serving and selling new music to listeners, Playgrub is helping us set the tone with our own rediscovered tracks. To test Playgrub, install the bookmarklet and check playdar.com/download to install the universal content resolver.

    See article for video and all links: http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/2009/11/playgrub-music-playlists-for-t.php

    http://playgrub.com/


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    • 14 Dec 2009, 01:40

    Can Spotify's free music pay off?

    Katie Allen and Richard Wray, The Observer, Sunday 29 November 2009

    Spotify's digital music service has been hailed as the future of online music. But can its business model hold up?

    Despite having spent less than £5,000 marketing itself since its launch three years ago, Spotify is fast becoming a household name, pulling in the punters with an offer that looks too good to be true: all the online music anyone could want, for nothing except the bother of having to listen to an advert rather less frequently than on radio. And it's legal.

    But the trouble with things that look too good to be true is they often turn out to be exactly that. Questions are being raised about the financial viability of the Stockholm-based business and the nature of the ties it has with the music labels whose content it showcases.

    Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/nov/29/spotify-music-industry-funding


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    • 14 Dec 2009, 01:45

    Last.fm Gets 1 Million New Subscribers in One Week

    By Lucian Parfeni, Web News Editor, 25th of November 2009

    The deal was announced half a year ago, but things tend to move slower in the gaming world than in social media, so the Last.fm integration only came to fruition last week. And, the results are already beginning to show, the music streaming service managed to get almost one million new subscribers from the Xbox Live users which signed up for Last.fm. The CBS-owned company says that it was the biggest growth the site has seen since launch and that it broke the record for most users registered in a 24-hour period.

    Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Last-fm-Gets-1-Million-New-Subscribers-in-One-Week-128039.shtml


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    • 14 Dec 2009, 01:48

    Lawyers target thousands of 'illegal' file-sharers

    By Jonathan Fildes, Friday, 27 November 2009

    Around 15,000 suspected pirates may soon get legal letters accusing them of illegally sharing movies and games.

    ACS:Law plans to send notes to the accused in the new year offering a chance to settle out of court for "several hundreds of pounds".

    A lawyer who has defended people who have received similar letters described it as a "scattergun approach" that would catch "innocent people".

    ACS:Law said it was "unaware" of anyone who had been wrongly sent a letter.

    Andrew Crossley of the firm told BBC News it was acting to "eradicate" sharing of its client's products.

    "We give them opportunity to enter into compromise right at the start to avoid having to deal with it [in court]," said Mr Crossley.

    If it went to court and the lawyers were successful, he said, damages "would run into several thousands of pounds".

    But consumer group Which? said that it had heard from around 150 consumers who had been "wrongly accused" in similar cases.

    Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8381097.stm


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