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Tuesday, 31 January 2012 12:00
Copyright infridgement clamped down
SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) / WEB BLOCKING For the last couple of years the three-strikes has been the preferred method of stopping people from downloading music illegally. Now it's court injunctions forcing ISPs to block access to websites that infringe copyrights. This has been successful with websites such as…
Tuesday, 15 November 2011 22:29
BT ordered to block NewzBin2
For the first time ever in the UK an ISP has been ordered to block a file sharing website solely based on copyright infridgement.BT was given 14 days to block the Newzbin2 website accused of promoting illegal filesharing by Hollywood studios, in the first high court ruling of its kind…
Wednesday, 17 August 2011 08:57
EPM Podcast 24: Bonzai All Stars
Following Anderson Noise EPM now brings you a label mix from the founders of the Hard Trance sound, we welcome Belgium’s infamous Bonzai Records, with a mix of some of their classics by the Bonzai All Stars. Bonzai All Stars is the only true Bonzai experience containing music from all…
Tuesday, 09 August 2011 23:51
EPM to distribute the legendary Manchester club / label Fac51 Hacienda
EPM and the legendary Manchester club / label Fac51 Hacienda have completed a distribution deal for the new label with New Order / Joy Division's Peter Hook With its next releases now fully delivered, Haçienda Records can announce both its fully fledged digital distribution deal and upcoming release schedule An…
Sunday, 15 May 2011 19:36
Amazon launches Cloud Drive & Cloud Player
Amazon launch the Amazon Cloud Drive (www.amazon.com/clouddrive), Amazon Cloud Player for Web (www.amazon.com/cloudplayer) and Amazon Cloud Player for Android (www.amazon.com/cloudplayerandroid), the CloudPlayer is currently only available in the US. Together, these services enable customers to securely store music in the cloud and play it on any Android phone, Android tablet,…
Wednesday, 16 February 2011 11:58
EPM Online's catalogue also available on Qriocity's "Music Unlimited"
EPM Online has licensed its content to Sony's Qriocity.The Qriocity streaming service is already live in some countries; in the UK, Ireland, Spain, Germany, France and Italy. US and Canada will also launch at the end of the month.For more information on Qriocity's "Music Unlimited" have a look here: http://www.qriocity.com
Friday, 01 October 2010 10:23
EPM signs InnDigital.com
EPM just signed a deal with InnDigital, an Italian store located at : www.inndigital.com
Friday, 03 September 2010 10:20
GEMA FAILS TO GET INTERIM INJUNCTION IN YOUTUBE DISPUTE
As we recently reported, German collecting society GEMA has been in dispute with YouTube for more than a year now over licensing rates. Licensing talks between the two broke down last May and GEMA asked the German court to issue an injunction to force YouTube to remove any videos containing…
Monday, 23 August 2010 08:42
Digital album sales up with 51% in Germany
Sales of digital albums grew 51% in both unit terms and value terms in first half of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009. These details come from German music association BVMI and show that 4.7m digital albums were sold in the first six months of this year compared…
Wednesday, 18 August 2010 10:52
YouTube vs GEMA
As you may have noticed or heard, YouTube is currently blocking a selection of videos on YouTube Germany. This is because negotiations between the German collecting society GEMA and YouTube have broken down.YouTube gives the following explanation: " Our policy has always been to only monetize music in territories where…
Thursday, 15 July 2010 13:13
EPM Online's latest store deals II
And EPM Online just signed deals with these online stores: France Telecom/ Orange (www.orange.com); OneCluster, (to be launched in September 2010 - www.onecluster.com); Thumbplay (www.thumbplay.com); Aim4Music (www.aim4music.nl); Satellite (www.satelliterecords.com); More to follow soon!
Wednesday, 14 July 2010 11:29
EPM Online's latest store deals
In the past few weeks EPM Online signed deals with the following online stores: YouLoad, Germany - (http://www.youload.de/) My Clubbing Store, France - (http://www.myclubbingstore.com/en/) So Mixx, Spain - (http://www.somixx.com/) Traxsource, USA - (http://www.traxsource.com/) More to follow!
Tuesday, 18 May 2010 12:03
Music streaming service Spotify launched in the Netherlands and introduces two new products.
Music streaming service Spotify launches in the Netherlands and introduces two new products. Today is the day Spotify launches in the Netherlands: Spotify’s 7th European market. Spotify indicated that it plans to launch in the US later this year. The company also announced two new products that will be available…
Monday, 17 May 2010 09:34
50% OF DANCE LABELS SUPPORT THREE-STRIKES
CMU Daily http://www.theCMUwebsite.com report that dance music website Data Transmission recently surveyed 200 label execs, pluggers, publicists and producers about all things piracy and digital, and found that, while often not so vocal about these things, the independent dance sector is facing much of the same issues as the rest…
Monday, 10 May 2010 12:05
Apple plans to shut down Lala.com
Apple plans to shut down its newly acquired online music service Lala.com at the end of May. What Apple plans to do exactly with Lala.com and/or its technology is not known yet. More news to follow!
Monday, 10 May 2010 11:24
Spotify plans to launch in The Netherlands soon
Spotify plans to launch in The Netherlands soon Streaming service Spotify has confirmed it will launch in the Netherlands soon. Dutch media suggests the service will launch on the 18th of May. More news to follow!
Monday, 03 May 2010 21:24
Fileshares paid for other people's music
Below is an email from a filesharing website service. This shows everyone gets paid except the person that actually made the music or the label that spends money to master, promote and release the music.Labels pay mechanical royalties to release music, legal download stores do the same to sell the…
Monday, 19 April 2010 16:44
New EPM podcast hosted by the mighty Space DJz
We proudly welcome the mighty Space DJz with Ben Long at the helm for our new podcast. A full-bodied techno mix that infuses tracks from James Ruskin, Detroit Grand Pubahs, Decibel Flekx, My Evil Twin, Nick Robson, Robin Renwick and more with their own techno productions we find the often…
Tuesday, 23 February 2010 20:50
EPM launch new website with Robert Hood Podcast
EPM announce the re-launch of their website www.epm-music.com with minimal master Robert Hood providing the next instalment of the EPM Podcast series. Further EPM has also completed contractual deals with Youtube, Spotify, Scandinavia's Basepoint, France's Deezer and 24/7 Entertainment to give electronic music an even bigger voice within the ever…
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 12:18
Illegal file sharing site Pirate Bay, has owners imprisoned for 2 years and fined 2.4 million for copyright crime
As much previously reported, on Friday morning three of the men who helped create the tracker service Pirate Bay: Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde, and their chief funder Carl Lundstrom, were all sentenced to a year in jail for their role in enabling vast amounts of copyright…
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 12:22
Last.fm goes payware
Last.fm has recently switched to a payment model. For € 3 a month users can enjoy the music stream service that used to be free. As more ad-powered services change to a payment model some new kids around the block give it another go. Spotify is confident it can make…
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 12:24
France, the first country to implement the controversial “three-strikes-and-you’re-out”-legislation
Intellectual property law is on the move! More and more countries are taking a heavy-handed approach to fighting digital piracy. Last month the Swedish court found the founders of the peer-to-peer site “The Pirate Bay” guilty of infringing copyright. The court sentenced all four defendants to a year in jail…
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 12:28
European Commissioner for Competition Kroes welcomes progress on pan-European music licensing following Online Commerce Roundtable
European Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes has welcomed progress made towards pan-European music licensing following discussions in the Online Commerce Roundtable. In particular, she welcomes confirmation by French collecting society SACEM that it is willing, in principle, to entrust other collecting societies with pan-European licensing of its repertoire and to…
Monday, 17 August 2009 23:26
EPM August podcast by DJ Nasty
Hot on the heels of the Mysterious Mr. O’s EPM Podcast for July we now welcome the master of the Booty Break himself, DJ Nasty. As one of the most respected Detroit producers around the world he has recorded with some of Detroit's heaviest hitters. Even so, DJ Nasty…
Monday, 31 August 2009 19:37
Mininova flattened by Dutch court
Mininova flattened by Dutch court Ordered to remove BitTorrent files or face big fine A civil court has ordered Pirate Bay rival Mininova to carpet bomb all "infringing" BitTorrent files held on its servers within the next three months or face a fine of up to €5m ($7.16m). Dutch-based pro-copyright…
Thursday, 03 September 2009 12:34
UK MUSIC INDUSTRY SUPPORT MANDELSON'S ANTI-P2P MOMENTUM
The top man of record label trade body the BPI and the boss of entertainment retail organisation ERA have both added their signatures to an open letter published in The Times yesterday supporting the government's recent announcement that it will take a more hardline approach to combat file-sharing, and introduce…
Friday, 25 September 2009 14:34
FAC revoke article in The Times
FAC REACH AGREEMENT: THREE-STRIKES YES, NET-SUSPENSION Despite earlier in the day announcing she wouldn't be attending the big artist debate on the file-sharing issue, Lily Allen did make an appearance at the Featured Artists' Coalition's meeting in London last night, and apparently got a round of applause from her fellow…
Tuesday, 29 September 2009 15:14
France passes three-strikes bill
France passes three-strikes bill Opponents vow to block Hadopi II France's lower house has approved an amended version of the controversial three-strikes legislation intended to crack down on illegal downloads. Last September rthe 15th, the French National Assembly passed the anti-piracy bill by a 285 votes to 225, with the…
Wednesday, 30 September 2009 12:54
Couldn't have said it better....
Feargal Sharkey’s organisation ‘UK Music’ used a whole page of ad space to print this rant in the Guardian (English newspaper) this week. An old blog, but quite an interesting read and brings up some of the points many of you hopefully share, and all of us at EPM have…
Saturday, 28 November 2009 20:01
SLAM Stems
SLAM Stems With recently released remixes for Paul Ritch, Mihalis Safras and Samuel L Session, a big Slam single on Len Faki's Figure label, and a much anticipated Slam mix of Josh Wink's "Everybody to the Sun" about to drop, the duo are on a roll. Now with the release…
Saturday, 28 November 2009 20:29
Download a Zombie Nation mix
There's a certain mystery surrounding Zombie Nation. It's a name synonymous with making exciting dance music with a warm analogue sound. Take a listen to his back catalogue…the weird and wonderful sound has been blowing away audiences throughout Europe and Japan in 2009 on the Zombielicious Tour with North America…
Saturday, 28 November 2009 21:05
UK presented the Digital Economy Bill.
Friday 20 November the UK government presented the new Digital Economy Bill bringing in hardcore legislation against fileshares. Minister for Digital Britain Stephen Timms announced that Internet service providers will be forced to send cease-and-desist notices to customers they suspect of copyright infringement. The ISPs are then obliged to pass…
Saturday, 28 November 2009 22:00
Mastering in digital music
Getting your digital music mastered professionally is often the final but all too often overlooked step in releasing your music to the stores. All too often we hear music from labels digital releases that sounds flat, muffled, distorted, no bass etc. one of many problems from people not mastering their…