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MP3 For Sale Online In Industry First
News The companies behind the promotion are hoping people will agree to pay a small fee in return for a track they can legally listen to any place, any time -- and that they'll like the single so much they will buy the full album.
[May 24, 2002, 11:10]
Mail Room
News Take a look at how you might get hold of the best album Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys ever did! I've been trying to get hold of the best album the Beach Boys ever made, "Surf's Up" on CD. What does get copied are deeply loved music tracks that...
[February 3, 1999, 6:58]
Swapping Doesn't Hurt Music Sales - Study
News Even high levels of file-swapping seemed to translate into an effect on album sales that was "statistically indistinguishable from zero," they wrote. While downloads occur on a vast scale, most users are likely individuals who would not have bought...
[March 30, 2004, 10:45]
Execs Target 99-cent Song Price
News The average iTunes customer bought 49 songs online during that time, or the equivalent of about an album a month, compared with the average teenager’s purchase of a CD every two months, said NPD vice president Russ Crupnick.
[December 9, 2003, 11:25]
Copy Protection Broken By Hitting 'shift'
News In a paper published on his Web site this week, Princeton PhD student John Halderman explained how he disabled a new kind of copy-protection technology, distributed as part of a new album by BMG soul artist Anthony Hamilton.
[October 8, 2003, 8:50]
Radiohead Haven't Killed The Record Companies Just Yet
Blog The fact that Radiohead are opting to let punters choose how much to buy their album for online has been touted as the death-knell for established distribution channels - and I have to admit to getting caught up in the hype too.
[October 9, 2007, 19:26]
Music Firms Still Don't Get It
News Back more than a few years ago, in the dark ages before digital technology, a roommate of mine used to buy a record album and play it only once. Because in their greed and ignorance, the record companies are flirting with new ways to not only stop...
[October 19, 2001, 14:22]
This Treats The Symptoms, Not The Cause
Talkback Why are they still charging 15 to 25 pounds for an album? Perhaps the record companies should look a little closer to home. Why did the record companies not want to know about Napster and instead tried to shut them down?
[July 27, 2008, 20:19]
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]
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. While it plans to license music from other record companies, GoodNoise is looking...
[June 30, 1998, 14:52]
Virtually CD-free: The Future Of Music?
News Cordless Recordings is a bet that relatively inexpensive Internet distribution and marketing may give labels a cost-effective way to nurture bands over time, instead of spending as much as hundreds of thousands of pounds to record and market a...
[November 14, 2005, 16:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog What's most interesting is the way the data's being used -- if an album track starts peaking, then it's an easy matter to get the word out to radio stations and make the MP3 available as a single from a paid-for service such as iTunes.
[November 21, 2003, 15:05]
Restraints Relaxed In CD Anti-copying Tech
News Earlier this year, SunnComm, Fahrenheit Entertainment and MusicCity Records settled a lawsuit stemming from a Charley Pride album, the first known CD released in the United States to incorporate anti-copying technology.
[April 16, 2002, 12:17]
New CDs Designed To End 'ripping'
News Unlike previous anti-copying measures, this plan will place two versions of an album on a single disc: one in standard CD form, modified so that it can't be transferred to a computer hard drive, and another in Microsoft's Windows Media Audio...
[September 28, 2001, 14:25]
Copy-proof CDs Flood Europe
News The development of so-called second session technology, which allows two versions of the same album to be stored on the same CD, has helped win label support, however. Technology companies touting copy-protection wares -- and, to a lesser extent...
[April 3, 2003, 10:12]
What The Narrowband Revolution Means To You
News With no call charges customers wouldn't mind the hour or so it takes to download an album. This should, according to sources, hasten the plans of the major record companies to deliver entire music catalogues online.
[October 27, 1999, 16:30]
Radio Free Virgin Slims Down
News Users also can read album information, browse reviews and purchase music. Although the Virgin Group has a substantial war chest, its properties stretch from Virgin Atlantic airlines to record labels and retail music stores, diluting any online focus.
[November 2, 2001, 10:27]
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. The move comes as digital, downloadable music -- and in particular, the MP3...
[June 3, 1999, 9:23]
Can Bertelsmann Stop CD Copying?
News In June 2000, the self-titled single off Madonna's then-unreleased album "Music" was found online, causing an outcry by the pop star and her label, AOL Time Warner's Warner Music Group. Record companies also have sought to limit unauthorized song...
[April 9, 2002, 8:45]
Can MP3 Show Us The Money?
News The Jamaican-born artist, who maintains his own Web site with the help of two Webmasters, went gold with his first album, Can-I-bus. The scheme had many similarities to the Secure Digital Music Initiative, a push by the major record companies and...
[June 17, 1999, 8:57]
