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Michael Jackson’s Thriller Watched On The Net Over 8.5 Million Times Since Thursday
On December 2, 1983 Michael Jackson released a 14 minute long music video for the song “Thriller.” The Thriller music video was directed by John Landis (Blues Brothers 2000, Beverly Hills Cop III, Coming to America, ¡Three Amigos!, National Lampoon’s Animal House, and An American Werewolf in London).
On June 25th Michael Jackson passed away and the world was shocked. In order to recapture their memories of the King of Pop, they watched the Thriller video on the Internet. The Thriller music video was watched over 8.5 million times since June 25th. Old Michael Jackson songs are almost among the most downloaded songs on iTunes as of right now.
On June 27th, about 1,500 inmates at CPDRC performed a tribute. The tribute was completed in 10 hours and features the songs “Ben,” “I’ll Be There,” and “We Are The World.” This video was watched almost 3 million times since being created 3 days ago.
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Palm Pre May Not Have Ability To Sync With iTunes Anymore
Around the time that the Palm Pre launched, one of the features that was low key was the ability to sync with iTunes. This feature was major because the Palm Pre is supposed to be a major iPhone competitor. The fact that this feature did not appear in the limelight until close to the release date, it seems like Palm did not want Apple to prevent the feature from happening.
I can understand why because Tim Cook even indicated that they were willing to do anything in their power to prevent competitors from ripping off their intellectual property. ”We like competition–as long as our competitors don’t rip off our IP. And we’re going to go after anyone who does. I’m not talking about any particular company, but we are ready to suit up and go against anyone. We will not stand for having our IP ripped off, and we will use every weapon at our disposal….” stated Cook.
In the support area of the Apple website, an entry appeared about unsupported third party digital media players. Below is the text of the article:
Apple designs the hardware and software to provide seamless integration of the iPhone and iPod with iTunes, the iTunes Store, and tens of thousands of apps on the App Store. Apple is aware that some third-parties claim that their digital media players are able to sync with Apple software. However, Apple does not provide support for, or test for compatibility with, non-Apple digital media players and, because software changes over time, newer versions of Apple’s iTunes software may no longer provide syncing functionality with non-Apple digital media players.
The Palm Pre may no longer have the ability to be synced with iTunes in the near future.
[via TechCrunch]
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iTunes’ European Marketshare May Go Up Due To Royalty Restrictions Drop
Apple has something to look forward to in Europe. The Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM) has agreed to drop the territorial restrictions that they have over collecting royalties for about 128,000 artists.
Apple currently dominates over half of the digital music sales through the iTunes services. Outside of their country, Apple does not allow Europeans to purchase music. Because of the restrictions that the European Commission had in the past, they have limited what consumers could buy on the Internet.
With these license royalty restrictions being dropped, it is very likely that Apple’s market share in Europe will grow.
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Apple iTunes To Start Selling Hottest Tracks For $1.29 On iTunes
Apple will really be testing the loyalty of their consumers starting April 7. They will begin charging $1.29 per track for individual singles and selected classic tracks. This breaks the psychological barrier of the $0.99 per song. Apple is trying this higher price at a pressing time in the economy where consumers are forced to stretch their budgets.
This move is part of a variable pricing strategy put together by the company which will also see some songs receive a lower download price.
“This will be a PR nightmare,” stated former EMI Music executive Ted Cohen, currently a managing partner of TAG Strategic. “It is for the music industry what the AIG bonuses are for the insurance industry.”
Apple made the announcement about the changes to iTunes this past Janaury. The songs being downloaded at the new price will be DRM-free. This means you will be able to copy these songs from multiple computers to your iPod. Currently the iPod erases all of the music if you want to copy files from another computer. Many people complained about that.
Will the trade-off be worth it? We’ll find out in April.
[via LAT]
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