NPD Group Study Shows Increase in Online Download Sales
When it comes to the ratio between physical album sales and digital download sales, digital download sales have increased at the expense of physical CD sales. That’s not to say that CD sales are falling out of existence, but there seems to be a trend where sales are gradually going online even though most [...]
India Report – There’s Not Enough Pirate Courts Here
Sometimes, there is the odd report coming from Asia about a massive piracy bust with reportedly millions of CDs and DVDs being confiscated, but the aftermath of a major raid sometimes goes unnoticed.
There’s an interesting report from The times of India where there is a problem – there’s not enough piracy courts to deal with [...]
France Poised to Change Blank Media Levy Calculating System
Burning a CD or a DVD may be an extraordinary convenience for many, but the very way royalties are calculated before being collected in France may change – and it won’t be based on alleged piracy.
There are a number of countries that have implemented a blank media levy on portable media. The idea, when [...]
EMI reviewing CD content protection technology
EMI Group Plc said on Monday it was reviewing its use of the controversial content protection technology used on CDs, known as digital rights management (DRM), but has not scrapped it altogether.
Music companies launched DRM in a bid to curb piracy but the software means that the discs are incompatible [...]
Companies probe possible high-def DVD hack
The companies behind an encryption system for high-definition DVDs are looking into a hacker’s claim that he has cracked the code protecting the new discs from piracy, a spokesman for one of the companies said Thursday.
A hacker known as Muslix64 posted on the Internet details of how he [...]
Copying Own CDs Still Not Legal
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has called for outdated copyright laws to be changed and modernized. Currently it is illegal to copy music CDs and then place them in your MP3 player for listening. Making copies of CDs and DVDs does not impact the copyright holders and this law should change, [...]
Copying own CDs ’should be legal’
A think-tank has called for outdated copyright laws to be rewritten to take account of new ways people listen to music, watch films and read books.
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is calling for a “private right to copy”.
It would decriminalise millions of Britons who break the law each year by copying their CDs [...]
EMI Music CEO says the CD is ‘dead’
EMI Music Chairman and Chief Executive Alain Levy Friday told an audience at the London Business School that the CD is dead, saying music companies will no longer be able to sell CDs without offering “value-added” material.
“The CD as it is right now is dead,” Levy said, adding that 60% of consumers put CDs into [...]
Invention: Smart-card DVDs
CDs and DVDs have been around for a while, nevertheless, American-Israeli company Aladdin think it can breathe new life into these formats by creating a disc that combines optical storage capacity with an embedded electronic smart card chip.
The irregularly-shaped “XCD” is the thickness of a normal optical disc and can still play in any CD [...]
See you later, CDs
Forget vinyl: Now CD stores are suffering from a generation gap, and they’re closing down in increasing numbers
So this is an evening rush?
On a recent Monday, six people — soon enough four, then two — were browsing the bins of compact discs at Norman’s Sound & Vision, a music store on Cooper Square in Manhattan’s [...]
