November 14, 2005
Volume 11, Issue 2
File-Sharing Levels Steady in October
Excerpted from Digital Music News Report
File-sharing levels remained steady in October; year-over-year gains continued to be large.
According to data obtained from DCIA industry data resource BigChampagne, average simultaneous user levels hit 6.5 million in the United States during the most recent month, a massive 32.1 percent gain over comparable 2004 totals. On a global basis, user levels hit 9.2 million, a 31.8 percent increase year-over-year.
When viewed over a period of years, the growth of the P2P sharing population has been exponential. A comparison to file-sharing levels in the US during the comparable month in 2003 reveals a 42.4 percent increase, despite the presence of continued RIAA enforcement efforts against individual swappers. A chart can be viewed here.
Skype Achieves 200 Million Downloads
The exponential growth of downloads and the time devoted by Skype users to communication via Skype is making DCIA Member Skype truly "The Global P2P Telephony Company" and the world's first choice in Internet telephony.
This milestone represents 50 million additional Skype users since mid-August. Skype, with 200 million downloads, has become one of the most popular Internet telecom companies in the world.
SkypeIn customers choose a country and area code and are assigned a regular telephone number. Anyone may call the SkypeIn user at his or her SkypeIn number wherever the user travels, providing huge cost savings compared to mobile roaming rates and flexibility for the Skype user to receive calls at home, at the office, or at a hotel anywhere.
Users may purchase up to three numbers from their home country in Denmark, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States during the beta period.
Skype Voicemail customers can receive a voicemail message up to 10 minutes long from any user or traditional phone. Skype Voicemail customers may record their own personalized voicemail greeting, playback their messages, even while offline, and send incoming calls to voicemail if they away, offline, or simply busy on another call.
SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail complement Skype's first premium service, SkypeOut, which allows global calling to public telephone numbers for local rates. More than 1.2 million people are now using SkypeOut. With the combination of SkypeIn and SkypeOut, users have new flexibility to expand modern communications and share those interconnection benefits with non-Skype users. Skype eliminates communications billing surprises by offering all premium services on a pre-paid basis.
Skype maintains its commitment to user-controlled privacy settings with the ability to block SkypeIn numbers. SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail betas are available with the latest versions of Skype for Linux, Mac OS X, Pocket PC and Windows platforms. The new downloads also include enhanced user benefits such as remote access to their personal contact lists and the ability to import contact lists from other desktop applications.
BlueMaze Entertainment & Tanqueray
On November 15th, DCIA Member BlueMaze Entertainment and ad agency Grey Worldwide will help Tanqueray make a big splash for the holidays.
The launch of Tanqueray's Virtual-CD Holiday Mix will demonstrate the effectiveness of the virtual-CD (VCD) as an emerging new standard in branded entertainment. "Compared to traditional physical media, the VCD reduces promotional, manufacturing, and mailing costs, while allowing for wider and more instant distribution," says Mitch Towbin, Executive Director of BlueMaze.
"The VCD is also an incredible vehicle for product placement and integrated branded entertainment incentives (i.e., gift-with-purchase, customer acquisition and retention, event promotion with data capture)," adds Reggie Mars, Chief Digital Officer for BlueMaze.
In addition to licensing its VCD technology to progressive brands for use with existing campaigns, BlueMaze functions as a one-stop-shop for brands' music and lifestyle marketing needs. The company has relationships with the major labels as well as a flourishing network of independent artists, labels, producers, managers, and recording studios. Along with supporting the legitimate online distribution of music and media, the company is able to keep an ear to the ground for the freshest sounds and styles.
Interested brands are able to test drive a VCD by contacting BlueMaze. Related BlueMaze products include Physical Compilation CDs, Music Mix Download Card Programs, as well as original music production, scoring, and licensing for TV and broadcast usage.
PlayFirst Partners with Exent Technologies
DCIA Member PlayFirst, the leading full-service publisher of popular games, last week announced a global distribution deal with Exent Technologies, a market leader in secure digital delivery of games. PlayFirst's complete portfolio of games will be channeled securely to Exent's Games-On-Demand network of service providers, reaching millions of customers worldwide.
"Partnering with Exent to address both our security and distribution needs allows PlayFirst to focus on our top priorities: attracting innovative new developers and creating the next smash hit casual game," said Rich Roberts, Vice President of Sales & Business Development for PlayFirst. "By delivering PlayFirst products through Exent's Games-on-Demand network, we are continuing to extend our reach into the mass market."
Exent's Games-on-Demand enables game players to quickly obtain full-version games without the need to fully download them to their computers.
The Exent EXEtender technology eliminates the need for users to perform tasks like manually checking hardware compatibility, performing installations, and downloading new patches and drivers that are normally required for PC games. Consumers experience the ease of a console-like gaming experience with just a click of their mouse to launch games.
Exent's technology also provides benefits in the area of delivery, security, and usability, incorporating a full DRM and management platform. The DRM solution dramatically lowers software piracy and ensures enforcement of licensing restrictions. Business models supported through the platform include try-before-you-buy, subscription, rental, and others.
P2P Startup Takes on NetFlix
PeerFlix is leveraging a peer-to-peer (P2P) network to facilitate DVD trades. Its focus on consumer behavior is a key to its success.
PeerFlix's business model is taking on NetFlix heads on. With a system based on P2P, members sign up and create two simple lists: DVDs they own and DVDs they are interested in.
PeerFlix facilitates transactions between people that offer DVDs to the network and people that wish to receive DVDs.
The P2P network enables PeerFlix to scale with its members. Billy McNair, the CEO and co-founder, has built a team and technology that will enable the company to grow quickly and efficiently. His insights into entrepreneurship are invaluable to any startup.
With an unwavering focus on the core model, PeerFlix is well positioned for the future. Please click here for a feature interview with Billy McNair.
Report from CEO Marty Lafferty
 The DCIA welcomes last week's declaration of peace by DCIA Member Grokster and the major music labels and movie studios.
This represents one more step along the path to commercial development of the P2P distribution channel to its full potential. It will benefit providers of technology solutions and advocates of new business models in their collaboration to expand this most promising medium for entertainment marketing.
Most of all, we look forward with alacrity to the launch of Grokster3G, which will be permitted to offer licensed major entertainment content.
The stage is now set for the widespread conversion of file sharers to such authorized implementations of P2P technologies, and we encourage industry participants to focus on usage migration, which will further help grow the marketplace for digital content.
This settlement provides added impetus for the P2P distribution channel to grow and flourish. P2P digital rights management (DRM) and interactive advertising technologies as well as micro-payment services have been proven with computer games, software, and independent music and films. Major labels and studios can avail themselves of these tools today to develop P2P marketplace solutions securely.
P2P is a highly efficient and very cost effective distribution channel for licensed distribution of virtually all types of content files and is sufficiently robust to support advertising-supported, subscription, and a la carte sales of licensed content.
Early-adopting content rights-holders have already exploited P2P for marketing and promotion, direct sales, and other methods of monetizing their works, including via advertising, and are already generating profits.
Speaking personally, rather than in my official capacity, I would add this. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to team with Grokster representatives on working groups and on special projects that they have undertaken.
Whether making extraordinary efforts to reach out to major entertainment rights holders with flexible approaches for licensing their content for P2P distribution, leading the charge to develop and deploy important consumer disclosures, or creating and testing innovative techniques for deterring traffic in criminally obscene content, Grokster has been an exemplary player – a responsive and responsible leader – that has been too often wrongly smeared by our industry's opponents.
We encourage all affected parties to seize this moment to come to the table and develop new business partnerships. Leading movie studios and top music labels can now move forward to license P2P services using this highly efficient and extremely popular channel for the distribution of their copyrighted works.
P2P file-sharing technologies are part of the larger movement to distributed computing – interconnecting geographically dispersed machines for a variety of applications including research and collaboration – and represent the increasingly decentralized topology of the Internet and technology innovation. It is a very robust distribution channel for diverse types of content, which can be protected using P2P digital rights management (DRM) technologies.
P2P has the potential to be the most efficient and productive of distribution channels, where the consumers willingly contribute shelf-space, bandwidth, storage, transmission, and even viral marketing.
The DCIA supports multiple business models in what is a very efficient, productive, and flexible distribution channel. Key to the DCIA is that content rights-holders, software distributors, and service-and-support companies agree to deploy them.
Private sector negotiations generally result in a market-driven equilibrium between the value created by content rights-holders and by participants in distribution channels.
The DCIA also hopes that with settlements such as Grokster's, the RIAA and MPAA and their members will stop suing consumers. While they are clearly within their rights to do so, the DCIA always believed it was wrong for rights holders or their agents to sue end-users before licensing content to the P2P distribution channel.
Without authorized behavior to which to direct consumers, efforts at enforcement remain futile – as indeed they have failed to alter the steady growth in P2P adoption by consumers. Share wisely, and take care.
Legal Pressure Shutters Grokster
Excerpted from Washington Post Report by Jonathan Krim & Frank Ahrens
In a settlement with the Recording Industry Association of America, Grokster agreed to stop offering downloads of its software.
Entertainment industry executives called the settlement a milestone in their ongoing legal battles to contain file-sharing, which is used by hundreds of millions of people around the world. The executives hope other services will follow Grokster's lead.
But whether that will happen is unclear. An attorney for StreamCast Networks, which operates Morpheus, vowed to continue its legal fight with the entertainment industry. Grokster's ending operations will not prevent its customers from using the software if they have already downloaded it.
Services such as iTunes have become popular, charging users a fee to download music or videos, but far more people trade files for free. Music purchased over the Internet makes up less than 10 percent of all songs obtained online, said Eric Garland, chief executive of BigChampagne.
Apple has sold 600 million songs at 99 cents each since iTunes launched in 2003, an average of 20 million songs per month. By comparison, conservative estimates place the number of illegally obtained songs at more than 1 billion per month, Garland said. The RIAA puts the number at 3 billion.
At any given moment in September, according to BigChampagne, 9.3 million users worldwide were logged on to peer-to-peer (P2P). That is more than double the September 2003 average of 4.3 million. About 70 percent of P2P activity is song-swapping, Web monitors say.
While P2P activity continues to climb, US digital music sales have flattened out in recent months, worrying record company executives who have hailed online music sales as the salvation for their flagging industry, which has lost more than 30 percent of its business over the past three years.
The news is worse when compared against rising sales of iPods and other music-playing devices over the same period, Garland said. "Per capita, there's been a decline in song sales."
Mitch Bainwol, chief executive of the RIAA, acknowledged that piracy will never end. "We can't jam the genie entirely back in the bottle," he said. "But we can get to a point where the legal services will dominate."
Fred von Lohmann, senior staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights advocacy group, said the music industry cannot win by seeking to lock down its offerings through lawsuits or technology.
Instead, he said, the industry needs to compete with free services by lowering prices, expanding the availability of titles, and easing restrictions on the ability to transfer files among various devices and locations.
Marty Lafferty, head of the Distributed Computing Industry Association, a trade group that represents file-sharing services and related technology companies, said the industry already is moving forward.
DCIA Member eDonkey, for example, told a Senate hearing in September that later this year it would begin charging for songs and would distribute royalties to songwriters, entertainers, or others who hold rights.
The settlement by Grokster is "part of the conversion from open peer-to-peer to entertainment-industry-sanctioned business models," Lafferty said. "It would be great if this could all move along more quickly."
Lafferty said that with content-protection technology, illegal sharing could be significantly reduced. "It's complicated," he said, "and it's going to take time."
BitTorrent Reaches Out
Excerpted from Washington Times Report by Scott Galupo
Last week's decision by file-sharing service Grokster to temporarily shutter until it reincorporates as a legal entity no doubt had glasses clinking in Hollywood and in the music industry. But it may come to be seen as rear-guard action in the battle against Internet piracy.
The biggest threat to entertainment profits is software called BitTorrent. BitTorrent, developed by Bram Cohen and available for free online, enables downloaders to slurp up files that, in the days when Napster was still in diapers, seemed inconveniently bulky. System crashes were typical.
No longer. Movies that might have taken days to download take an hour on BitTorrent. The transfer of music files, video games, television shows, and popular software are commensurably speedy.
The music industry doesn't sneeze at BitTorrent, but the service doesn't offer much of an advantage in the realm of small files. With large files, it's a different story. BitTorrent, thus, has movie executives worried — especially as the rate of high-bandwidth Internet subscribers is set to increase to 60 percent of all Web surfers by 2008.
On BitTorrent, files are downloaded in little chunks at a time from among dozens of computers, and then reconstructed at breakneck speed. No mooching is allowed: you can download files only as fast as you upload them. In practice, this means BitTorrent will become ever faster as new users discover it and networks become larger.
Introduced roughly two years ago, BitTorrent has quickly become the prevailing method of Internet file-sharing; it accounts for more than 50 percent of all online swapping. At any given time, up to 20 percent of all Internet activity is driven by BitTorrent.
Here's the tricky part for the industry: Unlike the Kazaas and eDonkeys of the Net, BitTorrent is open-sourced. BitTorrent Inc. is wholly unaffiliated with the forums that host the 45 million people who have downloaded its software. Rather, files appear as hyperlinks on countless Internet sites and search engines such as TorrentSpy.com, IsoHunt.com, and DimeaDozen.org.
So-called "torrent trackers" — which are frequently updated indexes of links to music or video files — are embedded in fan-run sites for rock bands. Within days of seeing Bruce Springsteen or Green Day in concert, chances are you'll find an audio or DVD of the show available as a torrent file. A link to the movie "Jarhead" — one of 1.7 million copies of Hollywood movies available as torrent files, according to Fortune — could be found in seconds.
BitTorrent also is widely used for legal distribution of video games and computer operating systems.
The latter is one of the reasons the motion picture industry has laid off BitTorrent, even as it has gone after sites that host torrent files. The MPAA filed several lawsuits against such Web sites in December 2004. A court in Hong Kong convicted a man last month of trying to illegally distribute films with BitTorrent.
More important, Mr. Cohen wants to play ball. "BitTorrent has reached out to a lot of major motion picture studios one on one, and we've had conversations of our own," says the MPAA.
Hollywood would be smart to co-opt BitTorrent. As venture capitalist David Chao of Doll Capital Management, which last month invested $8.8 million in BitTorrent, told Fortune, "I'm a big believer that when the majority of Internet traffic is governed by BitTorrent and they have 45 million users, you're going to be able to monetize that."
BEUC Lobbies against P2P Lawsuits
Excerpted from CMU/Unlimited Media Report
Pan-European consumer rights group Bureau Europeen des Unions de Consummateurs (BEUC) staged an event in the European Parliament last week to protest the way the music industry is going about protecting its copyrights in the digital age.
Supported by MEP Zuzana Roithova, the group will launch a 'Declaration of Consumers' Digital Rights' which they want incorporated into EC law. The declaration takes the form of a number of 'rights' which they claim every consumer in Europe should have.
These include:
- Right to choice, knowledge and cultural diversity.
- Right to the principle of "technical neutrality" - defend and maintain consumer rights in the digital environment.
- Right to benefit from technological innovations without abusive restrictions.
- Right to interoperability of content and devices.
- Right to the protection of privacy.
- Right not to be criminalized.
The group will also call on the music industry to end its legal action against individuals who share copyrighted music via P2P networks.
BEUC Director Jim Murray told CMU, "The music industry insists on misinforming consumers on what they cannot do in the digital world. We believe it is high time to guarantee consumers certain basic rights in the digital world and to tell them what they can do with their digital hardware and content".
The lobbying group's new campaign comes as courts around the world seem to be moving more in line with the thinking of the content owners regarding the sharing of copyrighted media online, despite ongoing concerns over consumer rights and privacy.
It will be interesting to how entertainment industry execs respond to BEUC's campaign given that on one hand they seem to be winning the legal argument on this one already, though that is having little effect on actual P2P usage around the world.
Piracy Broadside – Proposed Legislation
Excerpted from Variety Report by William Tripplett
Looking to toughen the Bush administration's stance on intellectual property theft, the Justice and Commerce Departments unveiled initiatives Thursday to make pirates' lives harder everywhere while helping US businesses protect their goods in one particular country.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told a conference on IP rights and protection sponsored by the US Chamber of Commerce that his agency had recently crafted a comprehensive legislative proposal – the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2005 – that would strengthen penalties for repeat offenders, expand criminal IP protection, and add critical investigative tools for both criminal and civil enforcement.
Addressing the same conference, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez announced the creation of the China Intellectual Property Rights Advisory Program, which will allow small-to-medium-sized American businesses to obtain a free, one-hour consultation with an experienced volunteer attorney to learn how to protect and enforce IP rights in China.
Public Knowledge, an advocacy group that tracks IP law, expressed concern about the DOJ legislative proposal. "We are concerned that the proposal attempts to enforce copyright law in ways it has never before been enforced," the group said. "Making the 'attempt' at copyright infringement the same as actual infringement puts it in the same category as far more serious criminal offenses."
Going by the Book Pays Off
Excerpted from Boston Globe Report by Joan Anderman
Poster children for the do-it-yourself approach, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals spent 2004 spurning advances from managers, agents, and record companies, meanwhile recording and self-releasing a pair of albums and amassing a touring resume that includes stints with the Dave Matthews Band, Taj Mahal, and Robert Cray. ''We got a lot of hefty offers early on," Potter says. ''But we'd read Justin's book."
That's Justin Goldberg, veteran of the Sony A&R department and author of ''The Ultimate Survival Guide to the New Music Industry: A Handbook for Hell."
Through a mutual friend, Potter arranged to meet Goldberg last December. In January, he became the band's manager. ''The band really took the book to heart," says Goldberg, who in 2003 founded DCIA Member indie911, a musicians' website that's part iTunes, part MySpace.
''We're really ready to take it to an edgy level. That's where we want to go," says Potter.
Pandora Launches Free Version
Pandora Media, which distributes an online music recommendation engine, last week announced that it is adding a free ad-supported version of its breakthrough music discovery service.
Music lovers who want to find new songs and artists to enjoy will now be able to choose between this free service and the commercial-free, subscription-based version that has been attracting heavy usage since its launch two months ago.
Pandora is also significantly expanding the service with a number of new features, including personal pages where members of the Pandora community can post their new music discoveries by bookmarking favorite songs; and a "station-editing" console that makes it easier for Pandora customers to refine their listening experiences.
Former RIAA Chief Joins P2P Company Board
Excerpted from TG Daily Report by Scott Fulton
In the clearest indication yet that the recording industry may be prepared to drop its objections to peer-to-peer (P2P) as a technology, Jason Berman - who for nearly 13 years headed the Recording Industry Association of America - has joined the board of directors of Wurld Media, the company behind Peer Impact, a prominent distributor of licensed multimedia content over P2P.
Berman said, "Digital distribution has forever changed the way that consumers discover and purchase their music and other entertainment content. Peer Impact has been at the forefront of providing users with a legal way to share that content. I am very pleased to be joining a team who is committed to creating the future." Berman currently serves as Chairman Emeritus of IFPI, a consortium of recording companies worldwide that support anti-piracy causes.
Wurld Media made news last July, just prior to the launch of Peer Impact, when its CEO, Greg Kerber, testified before the Senate Commerce Committee. Kerber addressed Senators' concerns over the nature of P2P, defending the technology while promoting the use of business models to entice music publishers, and to grow a new industry.
Kerber said that Berman "served on the front lines during the birth of the file-sharing revolution, and we are fortunate to gain his insight as we continue to build our file-sharing model of the future."
SonyBMG Faces Class-Action Lawsuit
Excerpted from Digital Media Wire Report
California consumers have filed a class-action lawsuit against major record label SonyBMG, claiming their computers have been harmed by the company's recently-uncovered use of a controversial CD copy-protection technology, Reuters reported.
The label and its anti-piracy software partner, First 4 Internet, used a hacker method called a "rootkit" to hide their CD copy-protection software deep within a computer's operating system.
Antivirus firms have stated that trying to remove the software could impair a PC's ability to play CDs. The lawsuit seeks damages, and also asks that SonyBMG stop selling the 20 or so music albums containing the technology.
Consumers argue that Sony made no disclosure of what its anti-piracy tool was doing, and that the software also depletes a computer's available resources.
Computer Associates told CNET News that the software also reports back to Sony BMG on which CDs users listen to on their PCs, and potentially can impair ripping any CD, not just the copy-protected SonyBMG releases.
SonyBMG Pulls CD Anti-Piracy Software
Excerpted from Associated Press Report
Stung by continuing criticism, Sony BMG Music Entertainment promised Friday to temporarily suspend making music CDs with anti-piracy technology that could leave computers vulnerable to hackers.
The world's second-largest music label defended its right to prevent customers from illegally copying music but said it would halt manufacturing CDs with the "XCP" technology as a precautionary measure.
The anti-piracy technology, which works only on Windows computers, prevents customers from making more than a few copies of the CD and from loading the CD's songs onto Apple iPod portable music players. Some other music players, which recognize Microsoft's proprietary music format, would work.
Sony's announcement came one day after security companies disclosed that hackers were distributing malicious programs over the Internet that exploited the anti-piracy technology's ability to avoid detection. Hackers discovered that they could effectively render their programs invisible by using names for computer files similar to the ones cloaked by the Sony technology.
A senior official for the Department of Homeland Security cautioned entertainment companies against discouraging piracy in ways that also made computers vulnerable. Stewart Baker, the department's assistant secretary for policy, did not cite Sony by name in his remarks Thursday but described industry efforts to install hidden files on consumers' computers.
"It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property, it's not your computer," Baker said at a trade conference on piracy. "And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days."
Sony's program is included on about 20 music titles, including releases by Van Zant and the Bad Plus.
Security researchers have described Sony's technology as "spyware," saying that it is difficult to remove and that it transmits without warning details about what music is playing. They also say Sony's notice to consumers about the technology is inadequate. Sony executives have rejected the description of their technology as spyware.
Some leading anti-virus companies updated their protective software this week to detect Sony's anti-piracy program, disable it and prevent it from reinstalling.
Coming Events of Interest
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Global IPRP Forum – The Global Forum on Intellectual-Property Rights Protection (IPRP), November 16th in Beijing, China. IPRP is a critical global concern that impacts media, technology, and commercial stakeholders. The agenda features an introduction of the Chinese government's policy plan to implement IPRP and formation of its coalition to develop national standards and directions as well as promote international cooperation on effective anti-piracy measures.
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Search Engine Marketing Seminar – November 16th in Long Island, NY. Join Search Engine Marketing Pioneers, Prime Visibility, for this hands-on full day event and learn how to get your website on the first page of Google, Yahoo & MSN. Featured as leading SEO experts on A&E's Biography Channel, this seminar also includes a free live site clinic where audience member websites will be analyzed.
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China's New Offshore Investment Laws: What They Mean for VCs & Entrepreneurs – November 18th at 11:30 AM ET via interactive virtual seminar. Hear from knowledgeable professionals who deal with SAFE regulations on a near-daily basis on major unknowns for entrepreneurs looking to tap into China. Taking questions during this 90-minute discussion will be: O'Melveny & Myers' Howard Chao and David Roberts, Lovells' Rocky Lee, and Dow Jones' Dave Barry.
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The Digital Entertainment & Media Expo (DEMXPO) – November 30th-December 1st at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. Join over 1,500 senior-level executives at the premier event for the digital entertainment and media Industries. Over 150 featured speakers cover the key issues you need to know in digital music, mobile, digital video, gaming, and digital advertising.
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Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo – December 5th-8th in Chicago, IL. Real-time actionable information to grow your business through search engine marketing. Ins-and-outs from top search experts and the search engines themselves. Access to the world's most comprehensive gathering of search engine marketing & optimization-related solutions providers and potential partners. Please click here to learn more about this event.
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FutureMedia 2005 – December 8th in London, England. This C21 Media event is a must-attend one-day conference that brings attendees face-to-face with the players shaping the future of entertainment. FutureMedia 2005 is the meeting place for the converging media industries, where producers, channels, rights owners, technology suppliers, and advertisers come together to discuss the fast-changing environment.
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Digital Hollywood at CES – January 5th-7th at the Las Vegas Convention Center North Hall. The Consumer Electronics Show will have over 140,000 attendees; 2,500 exhibitors; 4,000 press representatives; and keynotes by Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft; Howard Stringer, Chairman & CEO, Sony; Paul Otellini, CEO, Intel; and Terry Semel, Chairman & CEO, Yahoo. The DCIA will moderate the "Next Generation P2P" panel on January 7th.
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MidemNet Forum at MIDEM – The World's Annual Forum for Digital & Mobile Music January 21st-22nd, Cannes, France. Confirmed keynotes to date are EMI Group Chairman Eric Nicoli; Ken Lombard, President of Starbucks Entertainment; Patricia Langrand, Senior EVP of Content for France Telecom and Nokia's EVP and GM of Multimedia Anssi Vanjoki. MidemNet forum will welcome the world's leading digital music experts and global authorities on mobile music.
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