http://www.music2dot0.com/archives/87 Exploring Chaos in Digital Music Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:20:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.music2dot0.com/archives/87#comment-2910 Music 2.0 - Exploring Chaos in Digital Music » EMI Closing Asian Offices - Major Labels’ Global Foibles Exposed Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:28:47 +0000 http://www.music2dot0.com/archives/87#comment-2910 [...] Major labels’ luddite tendencies are legendary but their slowness at the head office level in sanctioning the tapping of the booming mobile music market in Asia allowed faster moving Service Providers and carriers to land grab juicy revenue shares, and as a result major labels in Asia are still paying the price as they are left with the short end of the stick in deals with carriers. But this very lack of technological understanding as admitted by Universal Music’s CEO, Doug Morris in his now infamous interview with Wired, had a more profound effect in the faster developing mobile and internet markets of Asia, as more advanced and unforgiving Service Providers and websites that sprung up on the back of this new technology invariably engaged in stealthy methods of music piracy, resulting in easy-t0-use applications and products that consumers welcomed with open arms. [...] […] Major labels’ luddite tendencies are legendary but their slowness at the head office level in sanctioning the tapping of the booming mobile music market in Asia allowed faster moving Service Providers and carriers to land grab juicy revenue shares, and as a result major labels in Asia are still paying the price as they are left with the short end of the stick in deals with carriers. But this very lack of technological understanding as admitted by Universal Music’s CEO, Doug Morris in his now infamous interview with Wired, had a more profound effect in the faster developing mobile and internet markets of Asia, as more advanced and unforgiving Service Providers and websites that sprung up on the back of this new technology invariably engaged in stealthy methods of music piracy, resulting in easy-t0-use applications and products that consumers welcomed with open arms. […]

]]> http://www.music2dot0.com/archives/87#comment-2649 Where did it go wrong for the record labels « The thing about useful stuff is Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:37:42 +0000 http://www.music2dot0.com/archives/87#comment-2649 [...] wrong for the record labels Music 2.0, a blog focussed on digital music has a long analysis here that pulls no punches it where it thinks the labels have gone wrong. Worth a [...] […] wrong for the record labels Music 2.0, a blog focussed on digital music has a long analysis here that pulls no punches it where it thinks the labels have gone wrong. Worth a […]

]]>