ArtistDirectArtistDirect to Quit SEC Reporting, Delist Shares From NasdaqAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on August 6, 2009 - 6:41am.
Santa Monica,
Calif. - ArtistDirect, a provider
of music and movie news, as well as streaming music and anti-piracy services,
announced on Thursday that it intends to suspend its SEC reporting obligations,
and delist its common stock from the Nasdaq.
MediaDefender Acquires Fellow Anti-Piracy Firm MediaSentryAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on April 3, 2009 - 7:53am.
Los Angeles
- ArtistDirect, a provider of online music marketing and distribution services,
announced that its MediaDefender anti-piracy unit has acquired MediaSentry, a
fellow provider of anti-piracy services, from parent company SafeNet for
$936,000.
tags: Deals | P2P | Piracy | TV | Music | Movies | Acquisitions | MediaSentry | ArtistDirect | MediaDefender |
Two Co-founders Exit Anti-Piracy Firm MediaDefenderAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on March 27, 2009 - 12:56pm.
Los Angeles
- The two co-founders of MediaDefender, an anti-piracy firm launched in 2000
and now owned by ArtistDirect, have resigned from the company, TorrentFreak
reported. Co-founders Randy Saaf and Octavio Herrera sold MediaDefender for $43
million in 2005 to ArtistDirect, a music marketing and commerce network. MediaDefender
provides record labels and movie studios with services such as seeding file-sharing
networks with fake media files, as a means of deterring downloading.
ArtistDirect Changes Capital Structure; Names New CEOAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on February 5, 2009 - 5:53am.
Los Angeles - ArtistDirect, a provider of music and movie information and owner of anti-piracy firm MediaDefender, announced that it has made significant changes to its capital structure, which included paying off senior debt, converting subordinated debt to common stock, and securing a new credit facility with Pacific Business Capital Corporation. ArtistDirect to Launch Lyrics Section; Licenses EMI, UniversalAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on August 18, 2008 - 7:05am.
*A correction has been made to this story. tags: Music | EMI Music Publishing | Gracenote | ArtistDirect | Lyrics | Universal Music Publishing |
Sprint to Sponsor Major Label Track on File-Sharing NetworksAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on July 10, 2007 - 2:49pm.
Santa Monica, Calif. - In an advertising first, Sprint will sponsor a major label song distributed on file-sharing networks. tags: Marketing | Advertising | P2P | Music | Sprint | ArtistDirect | Atlantic Records | Media Defender |
Suretone Records to Use ArtistDirect's MediaDefender on P2P NetworksAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on February 21, 2007 - 5:24pm.
Santa Monica, Calif. - ArtistDirect, an independent music destination and provider of anti-piracy technologies, said on Wednesday that Universal's Suretone Records has signed on to use its MediaDefender platform that encourages users on illicit peer-to-peer networks to download legitimate files. The technology directs users seeking files from Suretone artists like Weezer and The Cure to Suretone-branded exclusive files. The deal will also establish a Suretone video channel on ArtistDirect.com, which claims 15 million monthly U.S. visitors and 40 million worldwide. Career Moves: January 18, 2007Authored by dmw on January 18, 2007 - 1:42pm.
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Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen’s Dualstar Entertainment Group has hired online executive Lee Barth as Vice President of Digital Media to manage Dualstar’s online division which includes mary-kateandashley.com, sprousebros.com and the recently launched e-commerce site, shopmary-kateandashley.com. Barth will report to EVP Jill Zimmerman. Previously Barth worked at Loyalty Systems, a provider of consumer loyalty programs for professional sports leagues. tags: Career | Moves | ArtistDirect | DualStar | Sun-Times | BrightRoll | FFE | Jumpstart | Battery Ventures |
ArtistDirect Buys Anti-Piracy Firm MediaDefender for $42.5 MillionAuthored by Mark Hefflinger on August 1, 2005 - 7:03am.
Los Angeles -- ArtistDirect, an independent online music site that claims 13 million visitors per month, announced on Monday that it has acquired Internet anti-piracy software developer MediaDefender, for $42.5 million. Marina del Rey, Calif.-based MediaDefender seeds popular peer-to-peer file-sharing networks with "spoofed" versions of copyrighted songs and other media files, frustrating prospective downloaders with bogus files, on behalf of the major record labels and movie studios. "We believe that MediaDefender holds enormous potential to become the ubiquitous gold standard for the customized protection on the Internet of all forms of digital content," said ArtistDirect CEO Jon Diamond. Los Angeles-based ArtistDirect foresees expanding the use of MediaDefender's technology to protect straight-to-DVD movies, video games, software and e-books.
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