Digital Music Bits: Cuban, iTunes Hack; Cohen, Etc

Wippit launches DIY ringtones: Somebody ought to do this in U.S., and it will prove hugely disruptive: Wippit, the UK’s third largest online music service, has launched a ‘DIY-ringtones’ service. The service lets ringtone buyers edit songs from the company’s catalogue online, so they can choose to use whichever specific part of a song they like, or even the full tune.

Navio’s iTunes DRM Hack: Navio, a content commerce and payments firm, has announced plans to reverse engineer the FairPlay DRM system employed on iPods.

Preloading Music on Players: Why Hasn’t It Taken Off?: Mark Cuban explains..it has to do with the ridiculous music licensing/publishing fees, and this “old fuddy duddy music licensing organization called the Harry Fox Agency“, says Cuban. And he has a solution too:There is absolutely no reason for Harry Fox to charge just because a song is preloaded on the hard drive. It has every right to charge if the song is accessed.

EMI’s Tech Evangelist (reg. req.): In a combo profile/story about the crossroads of technology and music, the LA Times says there are many Teds. We beg to differ — there’s only one, Ted Cohen of EMI. But, as the story shows, companies beyond EMI have tech evangelists/music geeks on board now because Cohen paved the way.

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