Hints and tips:
...Through the early ‘00s, release after release, from 50 Cent to U2, fell victim to the escaped MP3: chomped off a toilet, eaten in a jeep, et cetera....
...The continent is projected to have 360m smartphones by 2025, when internet penetration on the continent will hit 50 per cent, according to McKinsey Consultants....
...To embrace the digital entertainment market, HMV has purchased a 50 per cent stake in digital music website 7digital....
...Persistent illegal downloaders face having their internet links disconnected under a secret trade deal being negotiated by developed nations this week, according to activists and industry groups....
...Her debut album, Animal, has sold 1m copies, a “staggering” 50 per cent of them in digital form, says Mr Weiss....
...Reviewing it, one nameless downloader said it was “a great source of reference with an easy-to-use interface and many excellent photographs”....
...Further payments are likely to be made by Nokia to the labels if consumers turn out to be voracious downloaders. However, the extra payments are expected to be capped....
...“The record business as we understand it is maybe 50 or 60 years old,” he argues, “but people have been going to gigs since the Stone Age.”...
...Early activity on Wednesday suggested that about 50 per cent of new downloaders submitted a valid e-mail address, and many also made a payment....
...There was no mention of any “three-strikes-and-you’re-out” policy targeting individual downloaders, contained in reports of a leaked early draft of the strategy....
...The IFPI, a trade body for the global recording industry, said more than 50 per cent of all internet traffic was so-called peer-to-peer file-sharing, much of it illegal....
...Teenagers are the keenest downloaders and these are their favourite genres, so future hit singles are most likely to continue in the same vein....
...Only one in five legal music downloaders is also an illegal file-swapper,” the IFPI said....
...Without considering price, the current crop of music shops actually offer an inferior product to that available to illegal downloaders....
...The success of iTunes, Apple’s market leading online music store, has inspired many others to follow suit with the number of legal downloading sites increasing to 335 from 50 two years ago....
...In the UK, he is lobbying to extend the copyright on performers’ recordings from 50 years to closer to the US term of 95 years....
...The group is making 150,000 tracks available on its “smart radio” system, which will personalise channels to the demand of individual downloaders....
International Edition