New Music Industry Briefing For Thursday May 17, 2006
– Leaders in music, technology, and law will meet in Montreal from October 5-7, 2006 for the Future of Music Summit. Participants will discuss issues facing musicians and the music industry. Canadian musicians have often been out front on these issues. (Future Of Music)
–Saint Joseph College, a CT four-year women’s college is offering high school juniors who receive a letter from the school can register and get three free song downloads through iTunes. (Playlist)
– Napster posted earnings for the year ending March 31st showing heavy revenue gains and widening losses. (DigitalMusicNews)
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Popular Russian download site allmp3.com has reportedly been up and down several times over the last few days. The legality of the site has been questioned and has been the subject of much international debate with some countries are putting pressure on the Russian government to shut the site down permanently. The site was recently named the second most popular download service in the UK after iTunes. (RegisterUK)
Allofmp3.com quite cheap and good store, but very often its temporarly closed. Actually I found another good and cheap store – http://www.mp3sale.ru – russian as well. And you know I dont care that FIAA dont approve this kind of organizations (allofmp3.com, mp3search.ru, mp3sale.ru, etc.), cause its just import from abroad for me. I can easily go to russia and buy licensed CD for $1,5, so why I cant buy the same in internet at russian web-site?