Amazon Brings ‘Gold Box’ Sales Initiative To Online Music Store

In an effort to promote their MP3 Download store, Amazon has developed two initiatives for MP3 album downloads. The Friday Fives promotion will discount five select titles to $5 per album. Amazon will then experiment on various price points for other albums, some will be reduced to as low as 99-cents, which has been dubbed Russian Pricing based on the now-defunct AllOfMP3 model. That is part of a fresh sales experiment, one that...

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RIAA Drops Infringement Lawsuit Against Joan Cassin After “Making Available” Challenge

House Of Cards Finally Falling? The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA, if you’re nasty) has quietly dropped a two-year file-swapping lawsuit against Joan Cassin. The news demonstrates that the RIAA is finding itself more and more on shaky legal ground, and begins to raise even more questions about its tactic for identifying and prosecuting individual file-sharers. The case, Warner v. Cassin, was voluntarily dropped...

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