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Apple's Putting Your Music, Documents, And Photos Into iCloud

"We're going to demote the PC and the Mac to just be a device," said Steve Jobs in his keynote address at Apple's WWDC today. "We're going to move your hub, the center of your digital life, into the cloud."READ»

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How Lady Gaga's One Billion YouTube Views Changes the Music Industry

Which metric best captures Lady Gaga's global superstardom: the 15 million albums she's sold to date, or the billion views she reached this week on YouTube? READ»

Backstage at Apple's Ping Launch, No Record Labels Allowed

Apple negotiated with Facebook for more than 18 months to launch Ping, its new social network. How much heads up did they give to record labels? Absolutely none.READ»

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iFive: Missing Tony Hayward, Spotify Rethinks Label Policy, London Bike Hire Launch, Galapagos Out of Danger, Miramax Sold

While you were sleeping, innovation was swiping your credit card and giving you a ride through the streets of London.READ»

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Record Biz Nails Online Porn Companies With Stiff Fine for Copyright Violation

A nice pair--of porn companies, that is--is being sued by the music industry for featuring songs in their XXX-rated clips without permission. The copyright infringement suit was filed at the U.S. District Court in L.A. last week, ...READ»

Interview: Blip Boutique's Mary Fagot, Creative Force Behind Robyn's Killing Me Video

The oil spill is killing me. My suitcase is killing me. But mostly it's Robyn's interactive twideo that's killing Twitter users. The firm behind it is Blip Boutique, an L.A.-based collective led by James Frost--the guy behind ...READ»

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Universal Music Group Slashes CD Prices to Between $6 and $10

The slow death of physical media may be even slower than expected, if UMG's new pricing structure takes off: CDs will actually be priced lower than their digital versions.READ»

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OK Go Ditches Label Over YouTube Embedding Rights

How many times does a band have to take the music video world by storm before its record label gets that its members might know a little something about music videos? We may never find out, because OK Go, the band in question, has ...READ»

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No More CDs, Says Sony

What the hell are CDs again?READ»

Rumor: Apple Drops iTunes DRM, Enables 3G Downloads

There's an intriguing rumor ahead of today's Apple keynote at Macworld: The company has successfully negotiated with the major record labels to drop DRM copy protection from all tracks in iTunes. And, as a major bonus, it's likely to ...READ»

Are Record Labels Backward?

The Washington Post recently carried an article about Pandora's struggle to stay alive. The article raises some serious questions about the people running record labels. Giant of Internet Radio Nears Its 'Last ...READ»

Music Lover, Can You Spare a Dime?

According to indie rocker Jill Sobule, there's only one thing record labels are still good for and that’s financing albums. Everyone is preoccupied over which music-distribution model will win out, but the fallout of the Internet's ...READ»