Digital Music Forum from CyberextazyDigital music news, debates, statistics, trends and gadgetsGuy Hands: EMI must dump artists to survive- January 22, 2008 The model of Nipper, the gramophone-fixated dog, remains in the chairman&8217;s office - but that is about the only piece of EMI&8217;s 77-year history that looks likely to survive under the ownership of Guy Hands. Since Hands, a titan of the private equity world, paid 3.2 billion for the record company last summer, the former bell-wether ...http://cyberextazy.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/guy-hands-emi-must-dump-artists-to-survive/ Hands in challenge to music industry- January 21, 2008 GUY HANDS is throwing down the gauntlet to the rest of the music industry to match his much-criticised turnround plan for EMI. I would like to be as big as the big three music groups and bigger, he said, after visiting EMI staff in New York and Nashville to explain his scheme to strip out 200m ...http://cyberextazy.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/hands-in-challenge-to-music-industry/ Interview: Jay Adelson, chief executive of Digg- January 7, 2008 Media companies will have to abandon their efforts to prevent digital music from being copied and concentrate instead on tracking a song&8217;s path around the internet, the head of the one of the world&8217;s most popular Web 2.0 sites has said. The chief executive of Digg, which created controversy earlier this year when users published a ...http://cyberextazy.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/interview-jay-adelson-chief-executive-of-digg/ Sony BMG Plans to Drop DRM- January 4, 2008 In a move that would mark the end of a digital music era, Sony BMG Music Entertainment is finalizing plans to sell songs without the copyright protection software that has long restricted the use of music downloaded from the Internet, BusinessWeek.com has learned. Sony BMG, a joint venture of Sony (SNE) and Bertelsmann, will make ...http://cyberextazy.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/sony-bmg-plans-to-drop-drm/ |