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MP3.com gets the open source spirit
News Companies aren't the only ones that say they are frustrated: at a recent industry conference, some lawmakers suggested labels must move quickly or face potential legislation to open the commercial Net music market.
[January 17, 2001, 9:01]
Hollywood homes in on student swappers
News Hollywood and the music industry say that such violations have cost them billions of dollars and thus have targeted universities to help to curb file swapping. ACNS was jointly designed by Vivendi Universal Entertainment and Universal Music Group...
[April 19, 2004, 14:45]
ITunes music sharing app goes online
News Even if Speth is able to steer clear of Apple's lawyers, he might incur the wrath of the recording industry, given that the new version allows songs to be downloaded onto a user's hard drive, rather than just played as a streaming music file.
[April 16, 2003, 7:29]
Guerilla tactics will defeat music industry
News Finding other, more secretive operations is where the real challenge lies, and, according to many, it's a war the music industry cannot win. These variations employ sophisticated guerrilla tactics to escape litigation and are emerging as the only...
[July 27, 2000, 12:40]
Forget Napster, FreeNet is really scary...
News A Napster-style technology which makes it almost impossible for users to be traced or identified is causing more headaches for the music industry. A spokeswoman for the Music industry watchdog the International Federation of the Phonographic...
[June 1, 2000, 7:03]
Hard for file swappers to hide identity
News There is no good system out there for hiding identities," said Randy Saaf, president of MediaDefender, a Los Angeles-based company that investigates peer-to-peer networks for the music industry. In a recent debate, Matt Oppenheim, the RIAA's senior...
[July 14, 2003, 7:58]
MP3 fans find a new star
News Despite a music industry crackdown, file swapping is alive and well on numerous alternative services that have so far avoided open confrontation with record label lawyers. Services such as Audiogalaxy, iMesh, LimeWire, BearShare and Music City are...
[June 15, 2001, 8:49]
Morpheus looks to Gnutella for help
News A glitch this week that locked millions of people out of the most popular file-trading network since Napster's fall is raising new questions about the future of the Net's free-music bonanza. Trade group representing music labels.
[February 28, 2002, 9:34]
P2P seeks refuge on West Bank
News On its face, Earthstation 5 appears to be at the leading edge of the movie and music industry's next nightmare -- copyright-flouting networks based in a territory without strong intellectual property laws, with security built in that protects...
[August 14, 2003, 17:05]
ISPs given deadline for file-sharing crackdown
News The music industry has estimated that it has lost £500m in the UK to piracy," said the spokeperson. However, the UK Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA) does not accept the claim that the internet is to blame for declining music sales.
[February 22, 2008, 12:57]
Internet2 used for file-swapping
News Armed with fast Net connections in dormitories, students have flocked to peer-to-peer services for free music, videos and software, and they have recently been a focus of record industry enforcement efforts.
[April 30, 2004, 8:55]
Aimster hit with file-swap suit
News But for the last month or two, the company has also offered a more sprawling, Napster-like service, in which people can search for music, video or software across a network comprising tens of thousands of people.
[May 25, 2001, 10:35]
ITunes file-sharing makes a comeback
News Services such as Napster, Aimster, Morpheus and Kazaa have incurred the legal wrath of the music industry for enabling users to trade song files, which record companies say has resulted in mass piracy and declining CD sales.
[January 28, 2003, 12:41]
P2P group seeks cross-industry detente
News But in their bid to win respectability -- as well as economic and legal breathing room -- that's just what Distributed Computing Industry Alliance (DCIA) founding members Sharman Networks and the affiliated Altnet say they're seeking: at the group...
[October 8, 2003, 15:25]
Intel hops on the file-sharing train
News Building on the stir caused by the peer-to-peer services such as Napster, which allows users to share music files over the Internet, Intel will detail an initiative to encourage the use of the technology in many other applications, including the...
[August 9, 2000, 13:38]
Sony predicts rebirth of television
News In an effort to showcase the company's new strategy, Ando brought onstage Sony artists, including actress Drew Barrymore and music group Mary and Mary, to help promote a slew of new computing products, including a Clie handheld with a camera...
[January 10, 2003, 7:28]
Gnutella spreading itself thin
News The music industry has to find another business model. The music industry is really scared that digital music becomes uncontrollable. Gnutella is not for mainstream users who don't understand what an IP address is," said Ric Dube of digital music...
[January 29, 2001, 15:50]
Disney seeks to block AOL Time Warner merger
News A person close to Seagram, which owns Universal Music Group and Universal Studios, said that regulators and legislators have approached the company to discuss its concerns, but it has yet to respond. They say that without equal access, consumers...
[March 23, 2000, 14:22]
RIAA calls hacking claim a hoax
News Claims that the music industry hired a group of hackers to create a worm to infect peer-to-peer networks are being dismissed by security experts. In July, the music industry's Web site was hit by vandals in an attack that caused the pages to be...
[January 15, 2003, 7:56]
Online music body favours MP3
News MP3, a format that allows music to be easily compressed in digital form so that it can be uploaded onto a computer/network, has been shunned by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Paul Jessop, director of technology at the...
[May 13, 1999, 15:47]
