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Swap This! EMusic Takes On Napster
News Hoffman estimates that between one-half to three-quarters of the EMusic catalog is traded on Napster. 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...
[November 22, 2000, 8:29]
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. So far, Napster has not responded to the first of...
[November 30, 2000, 9:47]
Napster To EMusic: We're Watching You!
News Napster will be monitoring just what its competitor EMusic is doing with its new "acoustic fingerprint technology", which the company unleashed this week to stop Napster users from swapping its songs, Napster chief executive Hank Barry said Thursday.
[November 24, 2000, 7:56]
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]
AOL And EMusic Get Chummy On Downloads
News AOL has signed a three-year deal with EMusic -- formerly GoodNoise -- that will allow AOL members to buy and download music from the Net. EMusic has become one of the biggest distributors of MP3 on the Net and has a catalogue of over 20,000 songs...
[August 16, 1999, 13:48]
News Burst: SDMI Will Fail - EMusic
News According to Bob Kohn, chairman of digital download company EMusic, formerly GoodNoise, whatever the SDMI comes up with will be dead in the water by this time next year. The SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) was formed by major players in the...
[July 8, 1999, 14:37]
SDMI Will Fail - EMusic
News An announcement on standards is imminent but according to Bob Kohn, chairman of digital download company EMusic, formerly GoodNoise, whatever the SDMI comes up with will be dead in the water by this time next year.
[July 8, 1999, 15:51]
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. We were a well-known brand before, but when...
[June 3, 1999, 9:23]
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]
Elvis, But Not As You Know 'im
News The distribution of digital music got easier on Tuesday when Emusic -- formerly GoodNoise -- signed a deal to distribute post punk songster Elvis Costello's back catalogue in MP3 format. Twelve of the artist's best-selling albums will be available...
[February 29, 2000, 14:43]
One-click MP3 Albums Arrive
News Emusic announced on Thursday what it claims is the first service that allows consumers to download entire albums of digital music. While others concentrate on adding complex security restrictions to digital music," explained Emusic chief executive...
[March 10, 2000, 16:00]
Napster Faces New Lawsuits
News On Wednesday, online music distributor EMusic added a lawsuit, just hours after producers for the Grammy Awards chimed in with their own. Emusic has already submitted a list of close to 30,000 songs to Napster, which until recently the company said...
[March 8, 2001, 9:06]
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: 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]
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]
New Mp3 Project Need Beta Testers
Forum Forget iTunes.Forget eMusic.Forget Napster.http://mp3around.com is here! You are cordially invited to participate in a revolutionary new mp3 website launch event. Please be our beta testers, after registration you'll be permitted to download 5...
[August 4, 2006, 15:56]
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]
