Disney sells 23.7M TV shows, 2M movies via iTunes
Walt Disney, which on Tuesday said second quarter profits rose 27 percent, also offered analysts and members of the media an update on its iTunes sales totals during a conference ...
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Apple, labels focus on copy protection
The last time Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs took on major recording companies, he refused to budge on his 99-cent price for a song on iTunes.
As a new round of ...
Will DRM-free music threaten iTunes?
Need proof that Apple's iPod and iTunes Store has forever changed how people, particularly mobile people, acquire music? Here it is: The recording industry recently reported that nearly 13 percent ...
Peter Gabriel launches We7, ad-supported music download site
"Advertising attached to the music will ensure that artists receive royalties for making their songs available, whilst consumers will receive and share DRM-free music legitimately".
Peter Gabriel, tech entrepreneur ...
Apple tells content partners it can soon offer DRM-free music
According to the MacRumors site, iTunes' content partners will soon have the option of offering DRM-free music and music videos.
Perhaps in another bid to assuage European anti-trust concerns, ...
Steve Jobs: ‘No subscription-based iTunes’
Says customers not into renting music -- and I agree.
Record labels have been supposedly asking Apple to introduce a music subscription service to its ...
iTunes Store a greater cash crop than Apple implies?
Although Apple has repeatedly said that its iTunes Store operates at "just above break even," a thorough analysis of the service's economics suggests it turns a profit roughly in line ...
Delivering the Digital Goods:
Apple boasts that more than one billion songs have been purchased from its iTunes music service. That sounds like a great number—until you consider that an estimated ten million users ...
iTunes adds MGM Films
Watch out BitTorrent Entertainment Network, for beginning today, iTunes customers will be able to purchase video content from the "largest modern film library in the world."
A month back ...
iTunes adds more movie titles
More bad news for the BitTorrent Entertainment Network.
iTunes, the world's most popular online movie download store, has announced that movies from Lionsgate films will be available for download on the ...
Music’s New Gatekeeper
Every day, the roughly one million people who visit the iTunes Store home page are presented with several dozen albums, TV shows and movie downloads to consider buying ...
Does BitTorrent Inc.’s new video store live up to the hype?
After months and months of hype, curiosity, wonder, and just about every other emotion possible under the sun, BitTorrent Inc opens its movie download service for business.
Offering more ...
Beatles iTunes deal is reached, report claims
With the iPhone announced, the Mac news and rumour machine is taking new steps to get ahead of the curve.
This week's leading rumour relates to The Beatles, with a report ...
70 cents per track is “in the correct range,” says UMG attorney
There's a new development from yesterday's story on wholesale download pricing. While the record labels are still unwilling to divulge their wholesale pricing structure for online music sales in UMG ...
Apple denies download sales fall
Apple has denied a report which claims US sales at its iTunes Music Store fell by 65% in the first half of 2006.
Research group Forrester said it was too soon ...
Beatles To Sign with Apple’s iTunes?
The potential creation of an exclusive contract between Apple and the Beatles is especially notable given the legal wrangles between the band's record label and the computer company. Apple Corps ...
Microsoft to pay Universal Music royalties on new Zune player
Microsoft and Universal Music have announced a new deal with one another that allows Microsoft to begin offering selections from Universal Music's vast musical library for download on its ...
Apple gives iTunes a Latin beat
Apple infused iTunes with a Latin beat by dedicating part of the online digital entertainment store to Spanish-language music, videos, audio books, podcasts and television shows.
The iTunes Latino portion of ...
“iPod Jon” cracks iPod and iTunes
DVD Jon, the Norwegian who as a teen hacked the encryption on DVDs has done it again. This time he has slayed Apple's Fairplay encryption that prevents iPod users from ...
Closed systems leave song buyers out in the cold
The top consumer complaint at online music service
Napster: Songs purchased at Napster won't play on Apple's iPod.
It's not Napster's fault. Apple's (AAPL) hugely successful iPod business is built on a ...
