Archive for February, 2008

UMG buys UMG

  • Univision Music Group has just been purchased by Universal Music Group (Vivendi) for an undisclosed sum.

    UMG will continue to work closely with Univision concerning the promotion of its artists.

  • Thursday, February 28th, 2008 | Posted in Special Features | No Comments »

itunes closing fast on wal-mart

  • Market researching firm NPD is reporting that iTunes now takes the #2 slot just behind super-mega-goliath retailer Wal-Mart. 

    Watch out Wal-Mart! iTunes is coming to kick your butts off with jujitsu skills…

  • Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 | Posted in Special Features | No Comments »

Free streams at Last.fm sees user boost

  • With a 59% surge in unique visitors last month stemming from free on-demand audio streaming, Last.fm is paving the way for music to become worth as close to nothing as utterly conceivable.

    Take that you filthy artists with your dreams and your rebelliously positive life-changing messages!

  • Monday, February 25th, 2008 | Posted in Special Features | No Comments »

Don’t make me come back there with Creative Britain!

  • The music and media industry has until April 2009 to make nice concerning issues with file-sharing, content filtering, subscriber monitoring, and other regulations or else the British government will step in and kick their butts off.

    Creative Britain is the name of the afore mentioned proposed governmental regulation plan, but British lawmakers failed to mention the whips, chains, wrist and ankle shackles that will also accompany this new regulation.

    …all the S&M music industry folks out there just squealed with ecstasy… 

  • Monday, February 25th, 2008 | Posted in Special Features | No Comments »

Automakers shift gears for wireless devices

  • Ford is making headlines with its revolutionary dashboard infotainment integrations which will give the driver direct dashboard control over all their portable devices and more including cellular phones, mp3 players, flash drives, internet access and email.

    …all the auto insurance premiums in the world just skyrocketed and squealed with ecstasy… 

  • Monday, February 25th, 2008 | Posted in Special Features | No Comments »

Canada says all music worth just $5 a month

fyi -

  • The music industry has already changed, now we just have to sit back and watch time catch up.

  • Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 | Posted in Special Features | No Comments »

Google News gets selective on sources

  • Mini-underdog news site Inner City Press awkwardly shotguns issues involving insider scandals and internal corruption within the United Nations, and has now found itself ousted from Google News.

    This digital exile by Google is another page in the books concerning a historic and ever-tightening major media selection movement to weir all undesirable content from the web (with the exception of hardcore pr0n – which is why the net was created by Al Gore and the Aliens in the first place).

    Hmm…Al Gore and the Aliens sounds like a ska band.

    I wonder if they are any good?

  • Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 | Posted in Special Features | No Comments »

Major labels looking at joint ad-supported venture

  • How would a single major record label drop in and dominate a previously untapped digital revenue resource that would otherwise provide minimal profits? - By banding with all the other majors to create a dominating conglomerate.

    Insider news is flying concerning the possibility of a major label backed DRM-free ad-supported network involving a select host of top traffic generating social and news sites.

    ooooooooooooo…

  • Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 | Posted in Special Features | No Comments »

Yahoo censoring searches – even further

  • The Pirate Bay has been removed from all searches on Yahoo.com.

    These are the initial stages of a unified offensive from the major media industry to barricade illegal file sharing networks (and other adverse media). As numbers indicate digital downloads surpassing physical product by 2012, major media is being pressured from all sides of the industry to fully prepare for the shift.

    Assimilate, or be destroyed.

  • Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 | Posted in Special Features | No Comments »
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