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Public Enemy Prefers Zip To MP3
News The album, "There's a Poison Goin On," will be available in the Zip-disk format from the record company's Web site, and Atomic Pop anticipates retail outlets Circuit City Stores and J & R Music will offer it on Zip disk as well.
[June 7, 1999, 9:42]
Virtually CD-free: The Future Of Music?
News Forty years ago Jac Holzman left a deep mark on popular music with the release of The Doors' first album on his independent Elektra music label. The idea is to release short three-song clusters online every few months over the course of nearly two...
[November 14, 2005, 16:40]
Will The Real Eminem CD Please Stand Up?
News Although pirated versions of the album were widely acknowledged to be online in MP3 format, Gracenote's figures look only at physical CDs, not downloads played on a computer. The Friday before the Eminem album's long-awaited release, a busy US...
[May 29, 2002, 10:30]
An Old Stone Shows Faith In MP3
News Bill Wyman, aged bass player of the Rolling Stones, will release his latest album on a dedicated personalised MP3 player next month. Several major artists have released tracks for download via the Web including David Bowie who last week released...
[September 27, 1999, 10:55]
Sting To Flog Compaq
News Sting's single and album will be released at the same time Compaq will launch its own advertising and branding campaign -- featuring Sting's single. Houston-based Compaq is expected to announce on Monday an exclusive agreement with Sting that will...
[August 9, 1999, 15:01]
A Year Ago: Sting To Flog Compaq
News Sting's single and album will be released at the same time Compaq will launch its own advertising and branding campaign -- featuring Sting's single. Houston-based Compaq is expected to announce on Monday an exclusive agreement with Sting that will...
[August 9, 2000, 7:01]
A Year Ago: An Old Stone Shows Faith In MP3
News Bill Wyman, aged bass player of the Rolling Stones, will release his latest album on a dedicated personalised MP3 player next month. Several major artists have released tracks for download via the Web including David Bowie who last week released...
[September 26, 2000, 7:01]
Celine Dion Disc Could Crash European PCs
News MusicCity Records, Fahrenheit Entertainment and digital rights management company SunnComm in February agreed to settle a lawsuit over the album "Charley Pride: A Tribute to Jim Reeves," the first known copy-protected album released in the United...
[April 5, 2002, 15:20]
Copy Protection Broken By Hitting 'shift'
News Under normal circumstances, the anti-piracy software is automatically loaded onto a Windows machine whenever the Hamilton album is run in a computer's CD drive, making traditional copying or MP3 ripping impossible.
[October 8, 2003, 8:50]
Sony CD Protection Sparks Spyware Row
News The SonyBMG-produced Van Zant album had been advertised as copy-restricted when he’d bought it on Amazon.com, and he’d clicked through an installation agreement when he put the disc in his computer. Van Zant album to new ways of cloaking files on a...
[November 2, 2005, 12:15]
Radiohead Haven't Killed The Record Companies Just Yet
Blog Comment Before (when the slogan was "Your music, your choice"), they offered a platform where musicians could show their wares, people would invest (and get limited edition cd's/profit share/direct access to artists), and the SAB artist would go and...
[October 11, 2007, 3:18]
Photos: Apple Unveils New IMacs And Apps
News It also incorporates a new feature called "skimming", which lets iPhoto users preview images in an album without having to open the album itself. Jobs also introduced a major revision to iLife, the company's suite of home media software.
[August 8, 2007, 12:44]
US Report: Music To Be Distributed Online
News GoodNoise plans to sell single tracks for 95 cents (58p) a pop, or $8.95 (£5.45) for an album -- about half the price of an album at the local non-virtual music shop. The company won't just be an online retailer.
[June 30, 1998, 14:52]
New CD Protection Won't Play On PCs
News The disc will be followed a week later by a greatest hits album by pop group Do As Infinity, called "Do the Best," and a new album by female vocalist Kumi Koda, called "Affection. The company is experimenting with a soundtrack from the teen drag...
[March 6, 2002, 15:56]
Apple Pays $100m To End Creative Battle
News The patent covers an interface that lets users navigate through a tree of expanding options, such as selecting an artist, then a particular album by that artist, then a specific song from that album, said Phil O'Shaughnessy, a Creative spokesman.
[August 24, 2006, 9:00]
Virus Alert 3D
Downloads based on the song from his latest album, Straight Outta Lynwood. Hoards of viruses have spread throughout the computer network of Company-Tech Co. It's more fun than a warehouse full of pink leotards!
[May 6, 2007, 14:01]
Amazon Users Campaign Against Sony's Copy-restriction Technology
Talkback I bought Athlete's CD album, 'Tourist' at the beginning of last summer, went to copy it on my hard disk but was prevented from doing so. Needless to say, my digital collection is now incomplete, despite having spent my 'hard earned' on an...
[November 5, 2005, 0:27]
Public Enemy Raps Ova Da Web
News Public Enemy have become the first major label rap artists to break free from a record company, and release an entire album via the Internet. The new album There's a Poison Goin' On will be released on May 19th in a variety of downloadable formats...
[April 28, 1999, 14:19]
Garageband.com Steps Up To Online MP3 Challenge
News Jerry Harrison said in a statement: "For the music industry, we want Garageband.com to be the premier A&R Internet site, both by identifying hot new artists to sign and promote and also by developing and nurturing those promising new bands that...
[October 1, 1999, 16:59]
GoodNoise Changes Tune To EMusic
News Unlike competitors such as MP3.com, which distributes free, promotional music, EMusic sells its licensed content -- 99 cents for a single, $8.99 (£5.50) for an album. EMusic.com CEO Gene Hoffman said the company's old name was associated with an...
[June 3, 1999, 9:23]
