The December issue of Wired has a profile of Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris that reveals why Universal has seemed to be aimless in its reaction to the growth of Internet music.
“There’s no one in the record industry that’s a technologist,” Morris explains. “That’s a misconception writers make all the time, that the record [...]

Nine Inch Nails has been planning for a long time to try an interesting experiment with their latest album, Y34RZ3R0R3MIX3D.
The release features fourteen tracks from the group’s Year Zero album, remixed by a select group of Trent Reznor‚Äôs ‚Äúheroes, friends, and strangers.‚Äù Along with the release, NIN is including remixable Ableton Live files, separated [...]

NBC Universal has quietly yanked Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake’s D*ck in a box off of YouTube. Try to view the video, and you get a message that the video is no longer available.
The video removal appears to be part of a larger shift in NBC’s strategy for Internet video.
According to reports, NBC [...]

There’s a lot of news in the area of Internet video today. Here are the highlights:

The UK government has responded to the controversy over the BBC’s recently introduced iPlayer digital video application, which only runs on Windows XP. We called it a closed on-demand video system when it was introduced. The government is now committed [...]

Four major studios, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount and Warner Bros, are reported to be pressuring Apple Computer are pressing Apple to make changes to iTunes before they will agree to make their films available via the iTunes Store.Currently, content on iTunes can be synced to an unlimited number of iPods. The studios want Apple [...]