dbratman
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response 186 of 189:
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Jan 27 17:26 UTC 2001 |
How many people are there today, I wonder, who wouldn't realize, on
seeing the Nipper icon, that the strange-looking thing he's listening
to is a type of phonograph?
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krj
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response 187 of 189:
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Jan 30 02:43 UTC 2001 |
BMG announced today that the for-pay Napster goes up in June.
Supposedly "digital rights management" will be an integral part of the
experience. Sources at Napster did not appear to know anything
about this. Source: www.wired.com, I think, and probably cnet too.
I'm puzzled by it; it sounds like a somewhat ignorant BMG exec
rushing into press with something he doesn't understand.
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krj
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response 189 of 189:
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May 2 23:50 UTC 2001 |
News media everywhere report that the proposed merger of EMI and BMG
has been dropped. The two labels could not get European regulators
to go along with reducing the number of major music companies from
5 to 4, and they were unable to come up with a spinoff proposal to
somehow create a new fifth "major."
This is EMI's second failed merger attempt in about a year.
EMI and BMG remain the weakest of the five major record companies
and they still look vulnerable to takeover by somebody.
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Some time back, Rykodisc, the largest independent American label,
was acquired by Chris Blackwell's new company Palm Pictures.
All is not sweetness and light: Joe Boyd, who sold his Hannibal label
to Ryko back in the early 1990s, has left Hannibal/Ryko/Palm.
There's an interview with Boyd in the new issue of Folk Roots magazine.
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This is really becoming the Music Business Conference, isn't it? :/
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