When free music is legal, and not Sep 8, 2008
(Illustration by The New York Times). Published: September 4, 2008. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
Revision3's Servers Knocked Offline by Copyright Cop May 31, 2008
That's when Louderback contacted representatives from both MediaDefender and parent company, ArtistDirect. Louderback cited information showing the severity of the attack, which MediaDefender admitted to, but admitted to a less severe automatic-response attack. (PC World)
Revision3 CEO Pinpoints Source of Denial-of-Service Attack May 30, 2008
Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback said MediaDefender, an ArtistDirect subsidiary formed to fight peer-to-peer piracy, caused the Web video studios server and site to shut down over the Memorial Day weekend through a denial of service attack ... By tracing back the SYN data, Mr. Louderback was led to ArtistDirect, which confirmed the sources address belonged to its MediaDefender company ... Mr. Louderback said he had a phone conversation with ArtistDirect interim CEO Dimitri Villard and... (TVweek.com)
Revision3 CEO: Blackout caused by MediaDefender attack May 30, 2008
ArtistDirect CEO Dimitri Villard and MediaDefender vice president Ben Grodsky admitted to Louderback that they had been exploiting the lax security configuration of Revision3's BitTorrent tracker and using it to conduct decoying operations, but they disavowed knowledge of the denial of service attack and claimed that their servers were only pinging Revision3 once every three hours. P2P poisoning. (Ars Technica)
Muller joins with William Morris Mar 6, 2008
Muller co-founded Lollapalooza along with Marc Geiger in 1990 and oversaw WMA's Contemporary Music division until 1997 when he co-founded the digital media company, ARTISTdirect, with Geiger. "I feel like I've been working with him consistently since he arrived here from Iowa 22 years ago," said Peter Grosslight, WMA's worldwide head of music. (Variety)
MySpace creates one-stop shopping for music videos Dec 4, 2007
4 million) and ArtistDirect (19. 1 million). (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
comScore Media Metrix Releases Top 50 Web Rankings for September Oct 19, 2007
com: The 18 Gorilla Nation 30,097 Womens Network 18,837 19 Target Corporation 28,749 41 WebMD Health 18,366 20 AT. 28,301 42 NFL Internet Group 18,081 21 Wal-Mart 27,036 43 ARTISTdirect Network 17,829 22 Monster Worldwide 25,615 44 NBC Universal 17,132 23 Expedia Inc 25,058 45 E.W. Scripps 17,080 24 ESPN 24,168 46 Weatherbug Property 16,772 25 Comcast Corporation 24,007 47 The Mozilla Organization 16,724 48 Cox Enterprises Inc. 16,224 49 EA Online 15,784 50 Dictionary. com Sites 15,660 TABLE 4... (PR Newswire)
Buddy Miles at Dollar tonight Sep 28, 2007
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Anti-piracy honeypot site exposed Sep 19, 2007
Gary Maier, a spokesman for Santa Monica-based MediaDefender's parent company, ArtistDirect, said the company was investigating the incident. He declined to provide additional details, referring further questions to executives at MediaDefender, who were not immediately available. (The Age, Australia -- Technology)
Hackers leak anti-piracy firm's e-mails Sep 19, 2007
Gary Maier, a spokesman for Santa Monica-based MediaDefender's parent company, ArtistDirect Inc., said the company was investigating the incident. He declined to provide additional details, referring further questions to executives at MediaDefender, who were not immediately available. (Globe and Mail)
Substance found in rapper's home not drugs Aug 30, 2007
FOX 11 Fantasy Home in the Foothills by Living Spaces LLC. 07:54 PM MST on Tuesday, August 28, 2007. (FOX 11, AZ)
Dean Martin Hits the Top 40 With Forever Cool: New Collaborations Album Debuts at #39 on Billboard Top 200 Aug 23, 2007
AOL Music, ARTISTdirect and MP3. com have featured Forever Cool alongside High School Musical and Dave Matthews Band. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
ARTISTdirect's MediaDefender Unit Announces Ad-Sponsored Content Initiative Jul 9, 2007
Source: ARTISTdirect ... July 9, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- ARTISTdirect, Inc. (OTC BB: - ) today announced a major advertising and music marketing initiative, offering legal, sponsored MP3 content to the world's largest concentrated audience of music consumers on the file-sharing networks ... The benefits are threefold: the initiative generates advertising income for record labels, helps curtail piracy, and also allows brands to associate with key artists to reach a desired demographic,'' said... (Primezone Releases)
Sprint Takes Lead As 1st Sponsor Of File-Share Song Jul 8, 2007
Sprint and Atlantic Records are teaming with ArtistDirect's Media Defender division for the initiative, which essentially amounts to an advertising buy for the telecom company ... ArtistDirect CEO Jon Diamond said the initiative serves the triple purpose of generating advertising income for record labels, curtailing piracy and allowing brands to associate with key artists to reach a desired demographic. (New York Post -- Business)
Universal Music Reconsidering iTunes Deal Jul 3, 2007
According to ARTISTdirect, a company that tracks illegal downloads, between 300 million and 500 million files were pirated each day in 2006 (see BusinessWeek. com, 10/31/06, ). (BusinessWeek)
Record Labels Take Spin At Ad Biz May 13, 2007
"There's a recognition on the part of the labels that advertising needs to be more core to their strategy," said ArtistDirect CEO Jon Diamond, who added that the additional advertising income labels generate provides a nice supplement to the transactional music models already in place. In North America alone, Universal Music Group's network of sites generate roughly 70 million page views per month, enough to rank it as a top-10 music destination, according to Executive Vice President David... (New York Post -- Business)
8Ball & MJG's 'Ridin High' Makes an Impressive #8 Debut on the Billboard Top 200 and Enters at #4 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Chart Mar 23, 2007
com) and "a dope down south album" (artistdirect. com). (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Advertising to the File-Sharing Crowd Feb 26, 2007
Among them is MediaDefender, an antipiracy company acquired by ARTISTdirect in 2005 ... "Peer-to-peer is a phenomenon that is here to stay," says Jon Diamond, chief executive of ARTISTdirect. (BusinessWeek)
Suretone Records and ARTISTdirect Announce Groundbreaking Peer-to-Peer and Video Content Initiative Feb 21, 2007
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The ARTISTdirect Network, the world's largest independent music destination on the Web, today announced an innovative new peer-to-peer and video content initiative, which will both create a revenue stream and protect artists' rights ... Under the provisions of the new agreement, ArtistDirect's MediaDefender technology will direct a considerable audience of fans seeking pirated music files on the peer-to-peer (P2P) networks to Suretone-branded exclusive content from the artists... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Music Labels Offer Teasers to Download Feb 19, 2007
The label;s files are being distributed online in an arrangement with ArtistDirect;s MediaDefender unit, which is better known as a contractor hired by labels to place fake, or decoy, versions of songs or other media files on file-sharing networks to thwart would-be pirates ... ArtistDirect separately runs one of the most popular music Web sites on the Internet, ArtistDirect. (Shoals TimesDaily)
Jay Z to pitch Cherry Coke Feb 16, 2007
Being the face for the re-launch of Cherry Coke is the latest in a series of strategic moves made in the past couple of years by Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, who is CEO of Def Jam Records and Roc-A-Fella Records in New York, ArtistDirect said. "It's his new opportunity to expand his standing in the business world," said Jameel Spencer, CMO of Rocawear, Jay-Z's clothing line. (Washington Times, DC)
A PIRATE FIGHTER'S BOON Feb 15, 2007
February 15, 2007 -- A move by the music industry toward unprotected MP3 files would be a goldmine for Artistdirect. com, which has a corner on the piracy protection market via its MediaDefender software. (New York Post -- Business)
Is Radio Still Radio if There’s Video? Feb 14, 2007
According to comScore Media Metrix, Clear Channel sites ranked sixth in December among music Web sites, behind MTV, AOL, Yahoo, MySpace and Artistdirect. Radio industry executives stressed that, so far, their video efforts could be considered experimental and only one facet ; along with blogs and audio podcasts and a nascent service called HD Radio ; of how the industry is adapting for the Internet age. (Shoals TimesDaily)
Illegal downloads still grow Feb 7, 2007
The rulings just means you can't distribute (the software) anymore," said Wayne Rosso, a former chief executive of Grokster. Pirates as partners In the last year, the music industry's focus has been on more high profile websites like News Corp.'s social networking site MySpace and YouTube, Google's online video sharing site. French media group Vivendi's Universal Music Group, along with fellow record companies Warner Music Group and Sony BMG, have signed revenue-sharing agreements with YouTube... (USA Today -- Tech)
