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EMusic Offers Subscription Service
News EMusic.com is launching a subscription service Monday that will allow consumers to download an unlimited number of songs from the Internet for a monthly fee. In a release, EMusic said the new subscription service offered a "legitimate alternative...
[July 24, 2000, 13:58]
EMusic Wants Napster Users Banished
News Embattled MP3 site EMusic.com has asked Napster to block access to 600 of its users who have supposedly been trading EMusic tunes illegally through the controversial file-swapping application. EMusic.com chief executive Gene Hoffman called the...
[November 30, 2000, 9:47]
Swap This! EMusic Takes On Napster
News Music subscription site EMusic.com has begun using software it claims can spot any of its 140,000 songs that are being traded illegally by Napster users. Ric Dube, an analyst with Webnoize, called the move a precursor to a possible lawsuit that...
[November 22, 2000, 8:29]
Universal To Buy EMusic For £17m
News Recording giant Universal Music Group, a unit of Vivendi Universal, said Monday it will acquire online music service EMusic.com for $24.6m in cash in an effort to fulfil the label's Internet ambitions.
[April 9, 2001, 16:04]
A Year Ago: Yahoo! Launches Digital Music Site
News Separately, EMusic.com agreed to offer downloadable music in the MP3 format on Yahoo! EMusic.com said the arrangement would allow customers to purchase more than 22,000 MP3 tracks for 99 cents per song and $8.99 per album.
[August 24, 2000, 6:59]
Yahoo! Launches Digital Music Site
News Separately, EMusic.com agreed to offer downloadable music in the MP3 format on Yahoo! EMusic.com said the arrangement would allow customers to purchase more than 22,000 MP3 tracks for 99 cents per song and $8.99 per album.
[August 24, 1999, 16:28]
Deal Will Drive Music, Internet To TV
News In addition to its partnership with EMusic, AOL now owns music hub Spinner.com and MP3 jukebox software maker WinAmp. Emusic.com signs deals with what Grady calls the "farm league" of the music industry -- independent labels -- and promotes and...
[January 11, 2000, 8:18]
MP3 For Sale Online In Industry First
News The companies said subscribers of EMusic's MP3 music service will be able to download the track as part of their memberships. Using the MP3 format is "a small step, but I think it's a symbolic step," said Steve Grady, general manager of EMusic.
[May 24, 2002, 11:10]
A Year Ago: Start-up Plays Dangerous Game With Music Biz
News Anyone that contributes to the infringement of a copyright can be prosecuted," said Bob Kohn, chairman and founder of Internet music label Emusic.com and music licensing expert. While the RIAA's offices were off on Friday and its staff not...
[August 17, 2000, 7:00]
Start-up Plays Dangerous Game With Music Biz
News Anyone that contributes to the infringement of a copyright can be prosecuted," said Bob Kohn, chairman and founder of Internet music label Emusic.com and music licensing expert. While the RIAA's offices were off on Friday and its staff not...
[August 17, 1999, 13:32]
GoodNoise Changes Tune To EMusic
News EMusic.com CEO Gene Hoffman said the company's old name was associated with an independent-rock focus, but that the audience for online music has broadened to include jazz, country and other genres. At the same time, EMusic.com unveiled a new Web...
[June 3, 1999, 9:23]
Napster To EMusic: We're Watching You!
News On Tuesday, music download site EMusic.com laid down the gauntlet, telling Napster users that it has developed a technology that can detect which EMusic files are being swapped among the 38 million Napster users.
[November 24, 2000, 7:56]
New Mp3 Project Need Beta Testers
Forum Forget iTunes.Forget eMusic.Forget Napster.http://mp3around.com is here! Visit: http://mp3around.com You are cordially invited to participate in a revolutionary new mp3 website launch event. Please be our beta testers, after registration you'll be...
[August 4, 2006, 15:56]
Is Napster Taking A Toll On CD Sales?
News Emusic.com's 24 year old CEO Gene Hoffman says MP3s are all about convenience -- not piracy, lawsuits or free music. TVT Records, one of the largest US independent record labels, filed suit against online music company MP3.com Wednesday, alleging...
[May 25, 2000, 15:48]
No Free Ride For MP3Pro
News Once companies, such as MP3.com and EMusic, began developing business models around it, consumers helped twist the market in a new direction by swapping MP3 songs through free file-trading service Napster, instead of paying for them.
[May 17, 2001, 17:57]
Internet Startups Flock To AOL
News Emusic.com, for instance, was eager to see its music Web site promoted on AOL's music and chatting services. The company agreed to pay AOL a fee in the "seven figures" and to grant it warrants to acquire up to 2 percent of its stock, depending on...
[April 3, 2000, 13:23]
MP3 - Civil Liberties Group Joins The Row
News Policy doesn't happen in Internet time or industry time," noted Peter Harter, a former Netscape legal counsel who is now vice president of global public policy and standards at emusic. Emusic is the new name for GoodNoise.
[May 26, 1999, 8:45]
MP3 Goes Punk...
News The deal will see Epitaph artists like The Offspring, Bad Religion, Pennywise, The Cramps and NOFX available exclusively on EMusic.com, one of the Internet's largest MP3 stores. EMusic chairman Bob Kohn last week slammed the SDMI's attempts to...
[July 14, 1999, 11:09]
Can MP3 Show Us The Money?
News "MP3 is still most often identified with free," said Bob Kohn, chairman of Internet music firm Emusic.com Inc.formerly GoodNoise Corp.who released some of the findings that his company has discovered in its first year of operation.
[June 17, 1999, 8:57]
Bush Goes MP3
News The Chemicals Between Us will be downloadable from MP3 site EMusic.com for under £1. Indie band Bush is to sell its latest single exclusively on MP3. The single will be available only in the MP3 format and is endorsed by Bush's record label Trauma.
[September 28, 1999, 16:34]
