Für jeden Dollar den Spotify einnimmt, fließen 83 Cent zurück an die Labels. Das ist ein problematisches Kerngeschäft. Maybe if/when Spotify gets to 50 million subscribers it will feel it has enough clout to compel rights holders to rethink licensing economics. Perhaps it will take Spotify getting to a 100 million to make that happen.

This is the story of Grooveshark, the people who built it and the relationships that were tested during its rocky road to growth—and its eventual demise. „Dear Music Fans… (Season 3, Episode 4)“ StartUp hält in einem einstündigen Podcast über den Musikstreamingdienst Grooveshark ein kleines Stück Internetgeschichte fest. Ein Detail, das mir im Beitrag fehlt:

In den USA wird dieser Tage ein Gesetzesentwurf diskutiert, der Verschlüsselung kriminalisiert – ausgelöst durch das FBI, die mit einer richterlichen Anordnung versucht hatten einen Präzedenzfall zu erschaffen. The Burr Encryption Bill – Discussion Draft dropped last night, and proposes legislation to weaken encryption standards for all United States citizens and corporations. The bill itself is a

The head of the FBI said Wednesday that the government had „purchased a tool“ enabling investigators to access an iPhone belonging to San Bernardino gunman Syed Farook. The disclosure by James Comey in a speech at Ohio’s Kenyon College was a departure from previous official statements, which had been vague in explaining the details of how

Erstens: Ich ziehe meinen Hut vor Jan Koum, Brian Acton und Moxie Marlinspike, die WhatsApp (kostenlos), den weltgrößten Messenger, in den letzten zwei Jahren mit einer vollständigen Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung bestückt haben. Zweitens: Nun gibt es verschiedene Ziele um private Kommunikation zu schützen, beziehungsweise die grundlegende Idee, sich frei, unbelauscht und offen zu unterhalten, wieder ins digitale

The DOJ official said the government is not committing to telling Apple how it managed to crack the phone’s security protections, as Apple had requested. That means the FBI is leaving other iPhone users vulnerable to the same hack (…). „Feds drop fight with Apple over terrorist’s iPhone“ Das FBI verweigert außerdem in ihrem Statement

I am a simple 15-year-old who has loved to doodle for as long as she can remember. I adored my first generation iPad mini, so when the iPad Pro came out I decided I could use an upgrade. […] The iPad Pro has completely replaced both my laptop and my sketchbook. (And my canvases. And

Tim Cook, im Frühling 2014 gegenüber klimaskeptischen Investoren: ”When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind,“ he said, „I don’t consider the bloody ROI 1.“ He said that the same thing applies about environmental issues, worker safety, and other areas where Apple is a leader. He didn’t stop there, however, as he