Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
→ MySpace to launch a music store too: based on Snocap, all unsigned artists (currently estimated to be around the ~3M mark) will have the option to set up online storefronts on their profile pages and sell their music in DRM-free format, at a price of their liking (MySpace and Snocap will be taking a [...]
After it reached a deal with Warner Music Group on Sunday, Snocap now has an agreement with all four major labels (Universal, SonyBMG and EMI are the other three). That is in addition to the deals with indepedent labels, which means we’ve got quite a library in the making here.
To recap how Snocap’s supposed to [...]
Bertelsmann is to launch Gnab later this year, a platform that will allow the distribution of music and movies. If I’m reading the article correctly, there will be two parts in Gnab—whose ridiculous name comes by reversing ‘bang’, by the way—: a centralized server that will handle all the evil DRM’ing of the available content, [...]