Tag: Downloads
Generous Americans paid the most to download Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' digital release…
But only 38% of buyers of Radiohead’s download only album actually paid anything at all.
The average price paid by the generous 62% that spent money on the you-set-the-price download was $6 across the entire…
Amazon launches AmazonMP3 music downloads store… at last!
Phew. After several months worth of speculation, Amazon has finally cut the ribbon (or whatever the online equivalent is) on its music downloads store. It’s called AmazonMP3, it’s US-only for the moment, and it’s offering over two million DRM-free MP3 files for 89 or 99 cents apiece, with albums priced between $5.99 and $9.99.
Amazon has signed up two major labels for the store – EMI and Universal Music Group – plus thousands of indie labels. The songs are 256Kbps files, and will work on iPods, Zunes, mobile phones, PSPs and any other device you care to name.
Daily Tech Hotlinks for 04-Sept-07: Sweden, China, Kickstart, Sony batteries, GPS
– Citizens of Lund, Sweden, must choose between Vista and internet access due to a bug there (The Inquirer)
– Close to 100% of downloaded music in China is illegally obtained (Business Week)…
Rolling Stones get DRM-free satisfaction with 7digital
Online music store 7digital has announced something of a coup: it’s selling more than 20 Rolling Stones albums as DRM-free 320kbps MP3 files for £5.49 per album. I repeat: £5.49 per album. And it includes all the classics (hello, Exile On Main Street and Sticky Fingers), not just their newer stuff and live compilations.
Opinion: Kids use age-old excuse — "everyone's doing it" — to justify media piracy. So what's new?
Andy Merrett writes…
I’m sure it’s the classic excuse for why kids and teenagers do pretty much anything their parents (or indeed, The Law) don’t want them to.
“But everyone else is doing it.”
Passing over the classic teacher retort “Well, if everyone else was jumping off a cliff [auditioning for a part in “Lemmings the Movie, perhaps?], would you” (oops), that seems to be the reasoning for kids who copy and distribute music, videos, or software over the Internet.
It has to be a lot less dangerous – at least physically – than jumping off that metaphorical cliff.
A study from the European Commission — which is seriously official and, therefore, must be true — found that a large number of kids knew that what they were doing was illegal, but still did it because they saw both their peers and their parents doing it.
The EC calls this an “implicit form of authorisation”.
I just call it kids wanting the latest music and being too poor to buy it. It could be laziness. Or the possibility that most albums contain mainly crap music and they want to make a mix tape of decent tracks.
Which? calling for insurers to cover digital downloads
Leading consumer organisation “Which?” has called for insurers to move into the 21st century and begin acknowledging customer claims for loss of digital downloads.
Its own research suggests that less than half of the insurance companies it polled will cover the loss of music, video, and other downloads due to virus or hard drive failure.
Lonely Planet launch pick and mix downloads
Lonely Planet is to launch a create-your-own guidebook service so you can download their top tips straight to your computer. The experts in all the best places to visit across this fine globe will start with content from the Caribbean,…
P2P traffic trends shift – stealing films is the new stealing music
It seems we’re a bit bored of downloading music for free – movie piracy is the biggest growth sector of the steal-it-off-the-internet scene.
Increased bandwidth means we’re all hammering Bittorrent for movies instead of music. MP3 downloading is holding at a constant level…
Sony reveals new PS3 downloadable content
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has given the full skinny on what new PS3 downloads will be available from the PlayStation Store this month. It includes four original games, new content for MotorStorm and Resistance: Fall Of Man, and a bunch of PS one games to download and transfer to your PSP.
Beatles on iTunes? It's not such a big deal
Stuart Dredge writes…
Right now, the Apple online gossip-hounds are distracted by trying to think up more rumours big enough to shave a few billion of the company’s share price. I’ve heard Steve Jobs is about to jump ship to Microsoft to kickstart Zune sales *taps nose*
