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Hopes For Legal Music Podcasts Rise
News But like other music disc jockeys producing podcasts, which are radio-like shows that can be downloaded from the Internet to a computer or digital music player, he has been operating with one foot squarely in a grey area of the law.
[June 17, 2005, 12:30]
Apple: Play Music At Your Own Risk
News The issue was highlighted this year when a consumer sued SunnComm, Fahrenheit Entertainment and MusicCity Records, alleging they misled consumers about an album by country singer Charley Pride -- the first known copy-protected music disc released...
[May 14, 2002, 11:54]
The Day The Music (CD) Died
News InterTrust Technologies, a maker of digital rights management software, said on Monday it has partnered with start-up DataPlay to provide secure digital media in a move to thwart music piracy by replacing the compact disc.
[August 7, 2001, 10:41]
Double-sided Disc Combines CD And DVD
News The consortium, which includes major labels EMI Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, said the DualDisc product has a full album on a CD side of the disc and the album in enhanced sound -- such as DVD...
[August 25, 2004, 8:50]
Music Industry Sounds Off On CD Burning
News The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a lobbying group, said pirated disc sales jumped from 640 million units in 2000 to 950 million units in 2001. The group added that the widespread availability of cheap disc...
[June 12, 2002, 12:22]
Universal Copy-protected CD Shuns Media Players
News The "Fast and the Furious" disc appears to be one of the most advanced experiments yet in a process that could radically transform the way that ordinary music compact discs are created and used. The disc chosen for the experiment is the soundtrack...
[December 19, 2001, 11:32]
DeCSS Programmer Turns Attention To ITunes
News But if other developers -- or Johansen himself -- pursue the project, it could herald the arrival of simple ripping programs that could create unprotected music files from iTunes songs as simply as from an ordinary compact disc.
[November 25, 2003, 8:35]
UK Buyers Fume Over Copy-protected CD
News The disc will be replaced by retailers or by the label itself, a company representative said. That group, the Campaign for Digital Rights, says it is happy with the way BMG is handling the replacements of the Imbruglia disc.
[November 20, 2001, 9:18]
Celine Dion Disc Could Crash European PCs
News Consumer-electronics giant Philips Electronics has complained that discs incorporating copy protection are not technically CDs -- a contention that played into Sony's decision not to include the CD logo on the Dion disc, according to Sony.
[April 5, 2002, 15:20]
New CD Protection Won't Play On PCs
News Avex said only some of the tracks on each disc will be protected with Midbar's technology; unprotected songs will play on computers. The disc will be followed a week later by a greatest hits album by pop group Do As Infinity, called "Do the Best...
[March 6, 2002, 15:56]
Movie Makers Mull Future Of DVD
News The result: Software that can copy DVD movies from an encrypted disc to a PC's hard drive is now available on various newsgroups and Web sites. The ability to make a video CD from a laser disc has been around for a while.
[November 5, 1999, 10:50]
CES: Products To Watch
News Toshiba also has developed a large-capacity rewritable optical disc. The disc enables people to store up to 30GB, including three hours of recorded digital images. Consumer electronics maker Sonicblue launched its first portable digital-music...
[January 9, 2002, 9:29]
Music Tug Of War Means Users Lose Out
News Earlier this month, when he decided to record a new compact disc, Joe Smith followed a procedure he's done hundreds of times: insert the CD, get into the online music database and select songs. Roxio products were no longer supported by Gracenote's...
[May 24, 2001, 14:05]
Texas Sues Sony Over DRM Rootkit
Talkback Just another example of how the major record companies and their strongarm group, the RIAA, decide how you can use compact disc music that you paid for. Fair use? Not gonna happen if these guys have anything to say about it.
[November 28, 2005, 15:07]
Microsoft To Delete Sony DRM 'rootkit'
Talkback The bottomline is that when a consumer purchase a music CD, what he/she pays for is not a polycarbonate disc, but the music on it. And the way how to playback the music belongs to the consumer's choice.
[November 14, 2005, 18:29]
MP3.com Under Fire From Music Biz
News On Friday, following the path of two Digital Video Disc lawsuits, the Recording Industry Association of America filed a copyright infringement case against digital music portal MP3.com. The suit calls for a halt to MP3.com's newly launched Instant...
[January 24, 2000, 9:04]
First Blu-ray Spec Finished
Talkback Blu-ray Disc has one significant advantage over HD-DVD: it's put in a cartridge like FD. If music CDs were delivered as cartridge-type media, they could get more popularity in music-loving drivers. Ease of use is the key feature to make a success...
[August 12, 2004, 21:29]
Don't Get Carried Away With Portable War Games
Talkback the ipod is meant for MUSIC if it was meant for hauling around video and crap then apple would have made it do that years ago.if you want to carry around video in your pocket go buy a portable dvd player.and yeah, mini disc players have scrolling...
[March 19, 2004, 21:42]
Jane Wakefield: Don't Stop The Music
News While the people who sell CDs continue to believe they will be around for ever, there is no question in my mind that in ten years' time we will be saying how strange it is that our parents used a disc they actually had to pay for to play music.
[July 24, 2000, 12:57]
Microsoft Sued Over European Music Downloads
News Courts in the United States have held that this does not include saving information such as a song onto a computer's hard drive, but that selling the information on a physical media such as a disc at an in-store kiosk could be covered.
[October 14, 2003, 16:20]
