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During The Pirate Bay trial, the music industry placed the blame for the decline in their revenues squarely on the shoulders of file-sharers. Their logic is clearly flawed, but it could sway the verdict if no alternative explanation is presented. So, if piracy isn’t to blame, then what is *actually* killing the music industry?

According to Per Sundin, CEO of Universal Music, the decline in music revenues in the past 8 years can be fully attributed to illegal file sharing. If this were actually true, many of us might even respect his decision to go after pirates as fiercely as the music industry is doing right now. However, the past 8 years have seen a lot more changes in the landscape of home entertainment than Per Sundin would like to admit, and some of those changes have had a massive impact on music profitability – much more so than any amount of piracy.

Let us refresh our memories and take a look at what actually happened during and just before the past 8 years:

1. First, the explosive rise of computer and console gaming. This competitive ‘third element’ has appeared in the entertainment landscape, beaten both music and movies to the curb and taken a huge cut out of the music industry’s revenues. Consumers don’t have infinitely-deep pockets, and billions of ‘recreation dollars’ that used to go almost exclusively to music, are now going into gaming.

2. International trade agreements have allowed consumers to buy their music across borders, rather than accepting local prices on music based on the ‘relative wealth’ of nations, rather than the actual value of the product.

3. New forms of distributable media, most notably MP3s but also CDs, have become mainstream. These new media don’t degrade over time and rarely break at all, making music rebuys a thing of the past, and allowing the second-hand market for music to thrive and expand – both of which take a cut out of the music

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Ballston Spa, NY (PRWEB) July 9, 2010

Music and media server innovators ReQuest are greeting the heat with a new wave of product updates and enhancements for July.

Leading the list is the introduction of Pandora® streaming music service on all F.Series and iQ systems. Pandora brings hundreds of user-customized stations to your home audio system. Owners can skip songs they dislike, mark songs they like as favorites, and Pandora delivers music tailored to their tastes. With a Pandora-One account and a ReQuest system, users will enjoy full cover art, metadata, unlimited skipping and a high quality audio stream. Listeners in different zones can even play different Pandora stations simultaneously.

Pandora on an F.Series is controllable via any web browser, iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, or touch screen. Streaming Radio must be enabled on the system to use Pandora. This update will be available for all F and iQ systems shipping by the end of July when ReQuest launches their Serious Play 6.3 firmware update.

Also on the very near horizon is a wide range of new control modules for the F.Series. Crestron and AMX controls will display a brand new interface designed to emulate the look and feel of ReQuest’s own touch screen GUI with all the same colorful icons and two-way feedback. For systems with Classical Music Mode, information on the orchestra, composer, conductor, and performance will also be available right on the interface.

Later this summer, updated two-way feedback modules for RTI and Universal Remote Control systems will also be available. Beta users have already praised the “remarkably quick” controls. All updated integration modules will be freely available on the ReQuest website by the end of July.

Finally, ReQuest is optimizing their Serious Play web server for use with the iPad® browser. All the same rich information and real-time feedback ReQuest owners are used to in a computer browser will be right there in the palm of their hands. They can add music to the queue with the same “click anywhere” interface, edit metadata for one track or an entire album, or take control of any and every zone in the house all from the powerful multi-touch tablet.

The iPad-optimized web server will be available for all ReQuest systems with the Serious Play 6.3 update scheduled for the end of July.

As a final bonus to ReQuest owners and dealers, Serious Play 6.3 brings an overall boost in system speed across the board. Media browsing in an updated system is 34% faster, boot time is 28% quicker, and metadata tag writing is faster than ever.

About ReQuest

ReQuest, Inc.’s home-entertainment systems have set the standard for high-end digital media storage, management, playback, and system integration since 1998. The Company’s award-winning media servers are the accepted leaders in cutting-edge technology. ReQuest has received numerous accolades for having the best service in the consumer electronics industry, with an installed base of more than 40,000 units. ReQuest was ranked by Inc. magazine as one of the top 500 fastest-growing private businesses in America for two years in a row. For more information, visit www.request.com.

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If you haven’t listened to Pandora yet, it’s for sure that you are missing on something on really special and enjoyable. Pandora is nothing but an internet radio site that allows the users to build radio stations which can be personalized in accordance to one’s own specific taste. It’s a part of the Music Genome project and the services are simply amazing.

All Pandora accounts are simply portable which means that users can always access their personalized Pandora stations from any device or computer that supports their Flash interface. They also launched their iPhone App in the year 2007 for the users of iPhone. Then you just need to click on the Pandora “P” icon on iPhone desktop to launch the amazing Pandora Radio. One great feature is that when launched, Pandora automatically starts the last Radio played and even starts back the last song played where exactly where it stopped. With the new iPhone 4, Pandora can be played on the background while doing anything else on your iPhone. This multitasking feature is great if you want for example keep the music playing while using the GPS in the car, watch your email, etc.

Unfortunately, Pandora is not accessible anymore in Canada and can only be used by residents of US. But Canada residents need not to be disheartened as there are ways whereby Pandora can be accessed in Canada or any other country.

To learn step by step technique about how to access Pandora outside of the US please go to: http://www.web601.com/pandora