Wireless and Mobile News (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Dada Entertainment (www.dada.net), the joint venture between Dada USA, Inc. and SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, announced the addition of DRM-free MP3s to its product suite. The new offering complements the full range of mobile products that Dada already makes available...
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yesterday we noted that Sony BMG plans on spending significant money on restructuring costs, but wouldn't spell out what they were planning. Today the NY Post offers a forecast : While Sony didn't specify how big they'd be, sources familiar with the situation said Sony BMG's restructuring charges are expected to almost double this year to $140 million, up from $73 million last...
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dada Entertainment and Sony BMG have signed a deal to make full-length DRM-free MP3s available to Dada's subscribers. The service charges $9.99 a month for 15 tokens, each of which can be redeemed for a ringtone, game or other mobile content—the new deal will let people download full songs to their computer and transfer them to a mobile phone or digital music player. Dada wants other labels...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Sony doesn't break out the Q4 performance of the JV at all, except to say it recorded a net loss “primarily due to lower revenues in the current quarter which more than offset lower restructuring expenses”. Most ominously, it predicts an increase in restructuring costs for the coming year, which we think can't be good news for the JV’s remaining employees—unless all of that money is being spent...
Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Remember the Sony Rootkit scandal where they broke peoples’ computers in an effort to enforce their copyrighted discs? Well, Judge not, lest Yous be Judged, Sony BMG. – Hat tip to Flaming the Bear
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Neither Sony (SNE) or Bertelsmann provide much detail into the performance of their Sony BMG music label JV, but Sony's latest earnings release offers a few peeks, and they're not inspiring: For Sony's FY 07 (ended March 31 of this year), the JV saw sales drop 4%, a figure we assume has been buffed up significantly by the weak dollar. But the company was able to boost profits...
Privacy Digest (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sony BMG Sends YouTube Ads Instead of Takedown - Via Wendy's Blog: Legal Tags : As reported on Valleywag and picked up by Slashdot , Sony BMG has been testing an alternative to copyright takedowns of unauthorized music videos on YouTube: inserting a link to the band's official page instead. An eagle-eyed Valleywag tipster with a taste for Modest Mouse spotted an interesting...
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
New York - Mobile entertainment publisher Dada Entertainment, a joint venture between Dada USA and major label Sony BMG, on Tuesday announced the addition of DRM-free full-song downloads from Sony BMG artists to its offering. Subscribers to the Dada pay $10 a month for 15 tokens, which are redeemable for ringtones, wallpapers, games and full-song downloads. The full-song offering requires...
spicywood (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the most popular Pakistani bands, Strings, is back after a gap of four years with their latest album Koi Aanay Wala Hai, which is being released by Sony BMG on May 19. Joining Strings in the lead video of the album is none other than Bollywoo 2 Vote(s)
p2pnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
p2pnet news | RIAA News:- In what's likely be the worst upset yet for Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG and their RIAA, a judge has admitted he made a “manifest error of law” in ruling Jammie Thomas was guilty of copyright infringement. A federal jury in Duluth, Minnesota, decided Thomas had willfully infringed [...]
p2pnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
p2pnet news | RIAA News:- RIAA nemesis Tanya Andersen has achieved another milestone victory. She fought Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA to a standstill, forcing it to drop its spurious file sharing case against her, and now an Oregon court has awarded her close to $108,000 in fees and costs. The amount, the [...]
TechDigest (Free subscription) | yesterday
After a shaky start that'd make even Michael J. Fox sympathise, Qtrax has signed up their fourth record label, Warner/Chappell. You might remember that late January Qtrax claimed they had support from Universal Music Group, Warner Music, Sony BMG and EMI, when in actual fact they'd forgotten one important thing...to run it by all four companies first...
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
p2pnet news | RIAA News:- P2P file-sharing application LimeWire is routinely castigated by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG and their RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). But, says Catherine Rampell in the Chronicle of Higher Education, neither the RIAA, the Big 4 nor their ‘investigator,’ MediaSentry, banned by the state police in Massachusetts, [...]
Cnet (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Sony BMG is releasing more DRM-free songs through a partnership with Dada USA, a mobile-entertainment company based in Italy. Songs from Sony BMG artists, such as the Foo Fighters, Kelly Clarkson and The Strokes, will be offered through a new music service, Dada Entertainment, where users can pay $9.99 ...
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
p2pnet news | P2P:- A primary task for Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG so-called ‘trade’ associations such as their IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry) is to spread outright lies, as well as mis- and disinformation, in schools to effect that the Big 4 are caring corporate concerns with the interests of [...]
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traderthoughts.com | 01/14/2008
Traderthoughts.com submits: On January 10, Amazon.com announced the addition of Sony BMG Music Entertainment to its repertoire of labels available at Amazon MP3, the DRM-free music store of Amazon.com. With this deal, Amazon is now offering DRM-free MP3s from the four major music labels - EMI, Universal, Warner Music, and Sony BMG - and 33,000 independent labels. This deal puts Apple (iTunes) at a
