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Medialoper’s 2008 Ducking The Shoe Awards

December 17, 2008 by Jim Connelly

George Bush ducking the shoe.“Ducking the Shoe” is a phrase coined by Daniel Fienberg a couple of days ago on Twitter to mean “escaping even the most minor of punishments for extended errors or misdeeds.”

Well, yeah.

So in the spirit of George W. Bush’s ninja-like ability to duck a shoe thrown at him from point blank range, the following people and things spent 2008 getting away with shit that they really should have been busted on.

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Filed Under: Amazon, Apple, DRM, iTunes, Medialoper, Microsoft, Movies, Music, Politics, Television, Unexpected Results Tagged With: American Idol, Auto-tune, Axl Rose, Barack Obama, Battlestar Galactica, BBC America, Bill Gates, CBS, CNET, Conan O' Brien, Daniel Fienberg, David Letterman, DRM, Facebook, Firefox, FOX News, Jay Leno, Kindle, Les Moonves, Madonna, Microsoft, Sci-Fi, Steve Jobs, The Hills

How The Music Industry Garnered Record Profits in 2008

December 5, 2008 by Jim Connelly

With Chinese Democracy topping 1.5 million in CD sales and downloads in its second week — for a two-week total of 5 million, the best ever — it is now official: the American Music Industry has never been healthier. Even in what is easily the most crippling recession most of us have seen in our lifetimes, people are buying music at a record pace.

How have they done it? According to Frederick Stamphammer, the RIAA’s Vice-President of Digitization — and the man seen by most insiders as the key figure behind the transformation of the music industry into a virtual profit machine — it was by seizing the opportunity afforded by the internet nearly 10 years ago.

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Filed Under: Amazon, DRM, iTunes, Marketing, Music, Piracy, The Long Tail, Unexpected Results Tagged With: Axl Rose, Chinese Democracy, DRM, Guns N' Roses, music industry, RIAA

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