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Warner Music Profits and the Sky Are Down, Digital Sales and Pigs Are Up

As much we like to joke about the new music economy stripping rappers of their fourth Bentley and downgrading their 60-inch plasmas to 42-inchers, Warner Music actually did take a hard beating this past quarter, losing almost $7 million in profit versus last year's—more than half, for a take of $5 million. While profits were down, digital sales shot up 25 percent to pull in $130 million, though that didn't particularly mollify the industry-wide 14 percent plunge in CD sales this year. Raise your hand if you're shocked, shocked. More »

2:15 PM on Thu Nov 29 2007
By Matt Buchanan
2,116 views, 30 comments

Latest by Average-Joe: Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in The more »

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"Toolkit" MPAA Offers Schools to Monitor File-Sharing Traffic More Like a Rootkit

The MPAA is such a kind and giving organization. After compiling a list of the top 25 schools for piracy, it sent them a letter last month offering the free, super-helpful University Toolkit to track naughty file-sharing on their networks. It "can produce a report that is strictly internal and therefore confidential to illustrate the level of file sharing on [your school's] network. In addition, we will send a hard copy in the near future to your university's Chief Information Officer." Of course, the first thing it does is call home. That's before the security holes. More »

7:15 PM on Mon Nov 26 2007
By Matt Buchanan
3,642 views, 13 comments

Latest by axiomatic: Let them implement this. I see serious courtroom hilarity coming from this software. DIAF RIAA more »