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Digital Music Forum from Cyberextazy


Guy Hands: EMI must dump artists to survive

The model of Nipper, the gramophone-fixated dog, remains in the chairman’s office - but that is about the only piece of EMI’s 77-year history that looks likely to survive under the...

Started in Digital Music Forum from Cyberextazy • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: ah! the news!, artists & bands, cd/ dvd, music, opinion & debates
Hands in challenge to music industry

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,”...

Started in Digital Music Forum from Cyberextazy • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: ah! the news!, artists & bands, cd/ dvd, music, opinion & debates
Interview: Jay Adelson, chief executive of Digg

Media companies will have to abandon their efforts to prevent digital music from being copied and concentrate instead on tracking a song’s path around the internet, the head of the one of the...

Started in Digital Music Forum from Cyberextazy • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: ah! the news!, cd/ dvd, drm, music, opinion & debates
Sony BMG Plans to Drop DRM

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...

Started in Digital Music Forum from Cyberextazy • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: ah! the news!, drm, music, opinion & debates, ipod
Sir Paul McCartney: ‘I Also Downloaded Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows”

British rock legend Sir Paul McCartney criticized his former record label EMI for its “boring” approach, and accused it of taking him for granted in an interview with the UK’s...

Started in Digital Music Forum from Cyberextazy • 10 months ago • 0 responses
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Radiohead Slam New Owners Of EMI Records

Radiohead have said that the new owners of EMI Records - private Terra Firma - “don’t fully understand” the music industry. Speaking about the reasons for their departure from the label’s...

Started in Digital Music Forum from Cyberextazy • 10 months ago • 0 responses
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Spice Girls have ‘backstage bust-up’

The Spice Girls’ UK comeback was marred by tension between the singers on their big night, according to a report. The atmosphere backstage at London’s O2 Arena reportedly turned sour on...

Started in Digital Music Forum from Cyberextazy • 10 months ago • 0 responses
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Led Zeppelin currently ‘considering tour’

Led Zeppelin are currently ‘considering a tour’, according to sources at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium, who are attempting to book the band for the venue. Welsh Rugby Union chief executive...

Started in Digital Music Forum from Cyberextazy • 10 months ago • 0 responses
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Further lack of harmony between EMI and top acts

The relationship between EMI and some of its leading artists soured further yesterday as the record label suggested Robbie Williams’s potential departure would not be a great loss, and a source close...

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Pavarotti Dead

Opera legend Luciano Pavarotti has passed away at his home at 5 a.m. this morning, his manager has stated, after yesterday’s reports of his health deteriorating to a “very serious”...

Started in Digital Music Forum from Cyberextazy • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: ah! the news!, artists & bands