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MP3 for sale online in industry first
News The International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI) said that in 2001 the sale of illegal recordings exceeded $4.2bn worldwide, not including losses due to online piracy. Phil Benyola, a digital media research associate for investment...
[May 24, 2002, 11:10]
MP3.com and Tower Records sing the same song
News Online music sales have been bolstered by the pending sale of Scour, an online file-swapping service that has also faced copyright suits. This sale is expected to be completed 12 December. Now consumers can opt for a free, advertising-based service...
[December 7, 2000, 9:06]
Apple's spat with Real continues
News To promote the release of its Harmony software, RealNetworks held a half-price sale in its song store in late August, charging just 49 cents per song. At the close of the three-week promotion, the company said it had sold more than three million...
[December 15, 2004, 10:00]
Warner whistles a new digital tune
News RioPort will not sell the songs directly but will offer them for sale through Web sites that use its retail technology, such as BestBuy.com and MTV.com. The agreement, announced on Monday, will let RioPort sell more than 30,000 titles from Warner...
[September 24, 2002, 6:27]
MP3.com sets sights on subscriptions
News My.MP3.com, launched about a year and a half ago, led to a flurry of lawsuits against the company over copyright infringement that eventually forced it to pay some $150m in settlements and judgments, and ultimately contributed to its sale to...
[June 13, 2001, 16:16]
MP3.com assets sold
News MP3.com is one of the last music assets to go, following the sale of digital music company Emusic to a New York investment firm last month. Robertson did succeed in winning the enmity of the major record labels, who sued the company for tens of...
[November 17, 2003, 9:40]
Liquid Audio starts Christian music download service
News The RIAA said the sale value of pirated recordings exceeds $4.2bn (£2.9bn) worldwide, not including losses because of online piracy. If they know that they can buy a CD online and burn it themselves instantly instead of having to go to the store to...
[April 29, 2002, 8:38]
Napster to go legit as part of Roxio
News The future of Napster seemed in doubt in September, when a judge blocked the sale of the company's assets to media giant Bertelsmann for $9m (about £5.7m). After the Bertelsmann sale was blocked, most of the company's 42 remaining employees were...
[November 15, 2002, 12:33]
Latest threat to music industry: the postal service?
News This means that La La will be among the first to cut artists in on profits from the sale of used CDs. Once users ship a CD, they're entitled to order one for themselves, and similar to online movie rental services, La La provides packing materials.
[August 3, 2006, 11:05]
News Schmooze: Gaming gets ugly
News MP3 for sale online in industry first Don't tell that to Microsoft, which said it's planning to spend $2bn to build its Xbox online network -- for that price tag, let's hope it's more of a success than the MSN dial-up ISP.
[May 24, 2002, 15:27]
The Long Tail review
Reviews Instead of stocking the top-selling 10 percent of books in print, for example, they can afford to offer for sale everything that's available. Successful online businesses like Amazon, eBay, Google and iTunes have been living off this principle for...
[March 23, 2007, 9:17]
AOL's got major-label music to burn
News The sale highlights another example of the much-vaunted cross-promotions that were hyped as the beneficial by-product of the 2001 merger of AOL and Time Warner. America Online, Warner Music Group's corporate cousin, last week began offering 99-cent...
[June 19, 2002, 9:41]
MP3 karaoke player hits the market
News The Irock 680 will be for sale initially on the Myirock.com site, which has not yet launched but will go live before the Consumer Electronics Show. Irock 680 owners will also have access to 128MB of online storage.
[January 3, 2001, 8:03]
Elvis, but not as you know 'im
News This is a huge endorsement for downloadable music -- to have such a major artist choose to release such a large catalogue for sale in MP3," stated Emusic chief executive, Gene Hoffman. Although mainstream artists, such as David Bowie, have released...
[February 29, 2000, 14:43]
US Report: Judge halts Diamond's MP3 player
News His company, which offers MP3-format music for sale on the Internet, supports the Diamond's Rio player. The RIAA claims to be striking pre-emptively to head off online music piracy -- the Internet is rife with illegal MP3 copies of the industry's A...
[October 19, 1998, 9:41]
Rupert Goodwins' diary
Blog An odd story escapes from the newly-bought MP3.COM, which shortly before announcing its sale to Vivendi went through a process of telling some of its top-selling acts that they were no longer welcome.
[June 22, 2001, 17:32]
The Day Ahead: Online music earnings nothing to dance about
News Musicmaker.com, which said earlier this week it's for sale. Meanwhile, America Online merged with Time Warner and executives left CDNow hanging for two weeks before they said they supported the Columbia House-CDNow merger.
[February 4, 2000, 11:51]
The Day Ahead: Expedia's independence pays, Musicmaker's swan song
News Translation: Musicmaker.com is for sale. Expedia reported a smaller-than-expected loss and announced two acquisitions that bolster its position in the online travel world. In recent weeks, America Online merged with Time Warner; Warner Music formed...
[February 1, 2000, 11:31]
Will the real Eminem CD please stand up?
News The Friday before the Eminem album's long-awaited release, a busy US street corner was dotted with bootleggers' card tables and blankets, each strewn with pirated copies of CDs and movies for sale. The online versions and bootlegging could serve as...
[May 29, 2002, 10:30]
S3 relaunches: New name, new focus
News Sonicblue is in the process of closing the sale of its graphics-chip business to Taiwan-based VIA Technologies. To have your say online click on the TalkBack button and go to the ZDNet News forum. S3 stood for "sight, sound, and speed", while...
[November 2, 2000, 8:57]
