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Netflix launches mobile-only plan in Malaysia

Amanda Stears

29 Oct 2019

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Netflix unveiled its RM17 ($4) mobile-only subscription plan for Malaysia last week on October 24th. The official announcement marks the end of Netflix’s test launch since end of last year, trialling a cheaper mobile-only plan against its basic subscription price of RM33 ($8).

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Profiling the Live Consumer: Streaming and the Live Music Business

Hanna Kahlert

17 Apr 2019

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This article is derived from MIDiA’s Profiling the Live Consumer report, available to subscribers here . For more information about this report, email stephen@midiaresearch.com . The power balance in music has swung from recorded to live, but will it stay? Live productions have been the prime reve...

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Music Piracy Hasn't Gone, It Has Merely Changed Its Spots

Mark Mulligan

14 Mar 2016

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While the music industry slowly got its head around the brave new world of digital in the 2000’s piracy used to be the dominant focus of record labels and their trade associations. Now, with so much momentum and scale among legitimate services that focus has understandably lessened.

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Why P2P Is Still The Big Deal For TV That It Used To Be For Music

Mark Mulligan

6 Jan 2016

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Piracy tracking website Torrent Freak released the chart of the 10 most downloaded TV shows on BitTorrent in 2015 . There are few surprises. The most successful TVs shows are also the most pirated TV shows.

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MIDiA Datapoint Of The Day: Mobile Music Piracy

Mark Mulligan

4 Dec 2015

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One thing you'll often hear cited in defence of streaming is that it has helped kill piracy. On the surface that might be seem to be true given that music P2P penetration is down. But all is not as it seems.

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MIDiA Chart Of The Week

Mark Mulligan

8 Oct 2015

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Piracy used to be the dominant narrative of the music industry in the digital era with companies like Napster and Kazaa becoming the cartoon villains. Many industry execs now pride themselves on having pushed piracy to the margins through a combination of enforcement, policing, industry lobbying and...