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In-the-works videogames cater to music fans
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 Reuters - With more than $1 billion in sales and 50 million tracks downloaded between them -- on a base of only about 350 songs -- the "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" videogame franchises emerged this year as serious moneymakers for the music industry. But are they bringing in enough per track?
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Music stars' digital strategies still in flux
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 Reuters - It's been more than five years since Apple's iTunes store changed music retail by introducing single-track digital downloads. But it wasn't until 2008 that most musicians and labels started to wonder out loud whether selling music by the track is good for their bottom lines.
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CDs Purchases Down, Video Games Help Sales
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PC Magazine - Sales of physical CDs continued to decline in the third quarter while digital download sales saw a small uptick, according to data from NPD Group. Artists who participated in music-based video games, meanwhile, also saw a bump in album sales.
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10 Best (and DRM-free) Online Music Stores
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PC World - Digital Rights Management: These three little words send chills down every music lover's spine--because one of the biggest complaints about music purchased from online behemoths like iTunes and Rhapsody is that those stores (largely) encumber tracks with digital rights management (DRM) software that restricts how and where you play the music you purchase.
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RIAA's Cary Sherman says lawsuits were the only option
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CNET - Cary Sherman offers no apologies and won't for a second concede that filing lawsuits against people who pilfered digital music from artists was ineffective. On the contrary, the president of the Recording Industry Association of America makes a case that chasing file sharers into court was the only option in 2003, one of the darkest periods in the music industry's history.
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Reuters - After its first full year selling tracks from all four major labels, Amazon's digital music store has become the second-largest a la carte service, according to industry estimates.
AFP - Japan's Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday that it was slashing its production of NAND flash memory chips -- used in iPods and other digital music players -- by 30 percent as the economic crisis hits demand.
AFP - Japan's Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday that it was slashing its production of NAND flash memory chips -- used in iPods and other digital music players -- by 30 percent as the economic crisis hits demand.
AP - Gov. David Paterson's first state budget threatens to affect just about every New Yorker. Even those online.