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AudioLock.NET and Believe Digital team up!

December, 8th 2011 11:00

AudioLock.NET provides the music industry with complete 24/7 protection from music piracy for new releases through to entire back catalogues. Our partnership with Believe Digital now brings this protection to you at an exclusive discount of 20% allowing you to protect your business with the most powerful and cost effective tools available from as little as £2.80 per month per track.

AudioLock.NET is currently supporting the music industry by revolutionising the fight against music piracy. Already many big artists and labels have adopted AudioLock.NET since its pilot launch in May 2010, including The Swedish House Mafia’s Axwell, Defected, Toolroom and many more. Our partnership with leading distributor Believe Digital will go a long way to extending the reach and reducing the rampant piracy problem the industry is experiencing.

AudioLock.NET, is a highly scalable anti-piracy solution with two core offerings. Firstly, a robust watermarking, delivery and management tool to facilitate the servicing of advance music securely. Secondly, a powerful automated scanning, monitoring and takedown service for removing all illegal files on the web after release. Unlike existing ‘take down’ solutions, the user uploads their tracks to Audiolock.NET’s secure servers where it is fingerprinted, then the system finds and downloads infringing content to automatically verify before sending a takedown notice , taking away the time consuming manual process. The user can also choose to build up a list of trusted sites (blogs, partners etc) where they may wish to allow the download link to exist therefore providing full control over your content.

The system monitors the internet 24/7 for illegal links and through your own interface you can set rules to decide which links are automatically or manually removed. With watermarks starting from just 1p and track protection at just £2.80p per month (including discount), the system is extremely cost effective to both implement and run. To ensure high speed delivery of files they are delivered through our global CDN (Content Delivery Networks) which unlike other CDNs is PCI compliant using the same security required for credit card transactions.).

The Interview

In wake of our new partnership, we sat down with AudioLocks Ben Rush to talk to him about internet policing and piracy within the digital music industry… (more…)

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Inside RockStar Motel – An Interview with CEO and Founder Luca Sacchetti

October, 16th 2011 20:52

We’ve already introduced you to RockStar Motel and the way in which it works; however, we got the opportunity to correspond with the man behind it all, Mr Luca Sacchetti, with a view to finding out more about his new social music network.

A former musician, Luca, has combined technology with his experience on the creative side of the industry to create a social music network, unique in its ability to give fans and artists unprecedented access to the music industry.

“As a former artist, I know it’s hard to create music when you are encumbered by the business and politics of the industry. By opening up the opportunity to share, preserve and promote music to the fans, artists have a new freedom to stay focused on making music. That’s why we’ve created RockStar Motel. The fans’ passion for music, harnessed by RockStar Motel, enables musicians to develop and advance their sound and their careers.” – Luca Sacchetti, CEO & Founder of RockStar Motel

Q. RockStar Motel is described as a social music network – how did the idea for the site come about?

In the late 1980’s and 1990’s I was in a band that toured through the US and Canada for ten years. When I hung up the microphone, I started working  in real estate and drove  20 hours a week. On one of these drives, I was thinking back to my music-days and the ups and downs of it all.  Suddenly, the idea for RockStar Motel struck. I knew I was being called back to my original passion, but in a dramatically different role.

Q. Can you tell our readers a bit more about what RockStar Motel is, and what services the site provides to users?

RockStar Motel offers music fans a chance to sign and represent their favorite artists.  Fans can build a roster of artists they love, promote them through their network, and get points for doing it.  The more a fan promotes, the more points they get, and the more points they get, the more visible they are on RockStar Motel.  Not only this, but they have the opportunity to help new bands launch their careers.  This in turn creates a system that encourages artists to reward their fans for spreading their tunes.  Because of this, we’re making actively searching for new music extremely important for the fan while at the same time leveling the playing field for artists everywhere by encouraging fans to listen to them.

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OMP3 – Facilitating music sharing and offering potential piracy solutions

March, 4th 2011 16:17

Here’s a confession: we’re slightly obsessed with pirates.

Not in the old-fashioned, ‘let’s drink rum, keep a parrot, dress up and say “Aaargh” ’ kind of way, and not even in the ‘my language is set to Pirate English on Facebook’, more digital-age friendly kind of way.

We’re talking about the realisation that in order for the new music industry to survive, we must learn from pirates, hence our last two blogs: Piracy Inspired Lessons for Labels and Sales Ahoy!

This week, we’re taking things a step further with this interview from new music start-up OMP3’s CEO Lee Winterson and CTO Supriyo Roy.

OMP3, is a legal service using the YouTube API, which provides free software which enables varying levels of webmasters and bloggers to provide legal music downloads from stores. Although not one of their initial aims, OMP3′s business model has created a brilliant solution to the piracy problem by making monetisation with music possible to anyone.

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