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Music industry claims cut from Pirate Bay sale
News The music industry will attempt to seize money paid to acquire the Pirate Bay, according to a high-level music industry source and a spokesman for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, the trade group representing the music...
[July 17, 2009, 16:38]
Music industry gives MP3 the all clear
News Digital music downloads are set to take off, according to a new Jupiter Communications study which states that the digital-music industry will grow 200 percent by 2003. Still, Chiariglione applauded what he sees as a solid compromise between the...
[June 29, 1999, 8:37]
Music industry attacks EU copyright proposal
News The music industry has condemned proposed EU legislation for protecting intellectual property, saying that it "falls far short" of what is necessary to fight piracy. Unlike the DMCA, the proposed EU rules do not take a hard-line stance against...
[February 3, 2003, 13:11]
US Report: Music industry slaps writ on Diamond's MP3 walkman
News Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc.was sued by the Recording Industry Association of America on Friday, alleging that Diamond's Rio player, a portable Walkman-like device for playing MP3 music files downloaded from the Internet or recorded on a user's...
[October 12, 1998, 9:25]
US Report: Diamond to release MP3 walkman - music industry unhappy
News And if MP3 -- which today lacks basic copy protection -- becomes a hit on the street, the music industry could lose major profits. That has the music industry worried. And while the trends concern the big labels, Creighton is quick to admit that...
[September 14, 1998, 9:36]
Music industry sounds off on CD burning
News CD burning contributed to a surge in music piracy across the globe in 2001, with sales of pirated discs jumping an estimated 50 percent from the previous year, according to an industry report released Tuesday.
[June 12, 2002, 12:22]
A Year Ago: Music industry slaps writ on MP3 walkman
News Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc.was sued by the Recording Industry Association of America on Friday, alleging that Diamond's Rio player, a portable Walkman-like device for playing MP3 music files downloaded from the Internet or recorded on a user's...
[October 11, 1999, 7:00]
News Roundup: Music industry cracks down on Napster
News As part of its fight against copyright violation, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is developing automatic tools that will track people who are uploading digital music files to the Internet.
[February 19, 2001, 16:31]
Music industry to snoop on Napster fans
News The music industry is developing software that will automatically detect people who are illegally swapping songs over the Internet -- and it is prepared to pass the information onto the police. The International Federation of the Phonographic...
[February 19, 2001, 14:21]
Music industry sues students over piracy
News The recording industry has stepped up its campaign against campus music swapping, filing suit against four university students who operated file-search services on their school's internal networks. The people who run these (campus) networks know...
[April 4, 2003, 8:01]
Music industry at odds with BT over Napster
News As music industry executives line up to condemn Napster, the music sharing phenomenon being sued by Heavy Metal band Metallica, the controversial service found a friend in British Telecom (quote: BT) this week, kicking off yet another copyright...
[May 19, 2000, 9:57]
Music industry considers Rio strategy
News Even though the Internet jam session has begun, the music industry's Big 5 have just started tuning their strategy. The delay could be fatal, said GoodNoise's Hoffman, as the music industry is going online regardless of RIAA position on the issue.
[November 23, 1998, 9:23]
Music industry casts new net for streaming royalties
News The Recording Industry Association of America launched a mechanism Tuesday for collecting royalties on music streamed over the Internet, marking the record industry's latest attempt to gain online revenue.
[November 29, 2000, 10:32]
Music industry fears advent of digital music player
News The Rio promises to turn the music industry on its ear and accelerate digital distribution of music, giving more power to independent bands. MP3's major drawback -- for the established music industry, at least -- is that it only compresses music...
[November 23, 1998, 9:49]
Music industry unveils Internet amnesty plan
Talkback Why sue people who exchange tracks through online music-sharing programs and let Joe Blow tape the same tracks from radio stations onto cassette tapes? The recording industry is at fault for NOT KEEPING UP WITH TECHNOLOGY AND ITS CLIENTS' NEEDS.
[September 5, 2003, 19:05]
Latest threat to music industry: the postal service?
News The music industry would do better to develop La La as a distribution and marketing channel for new CDs and digital downloads," Kevorkian wrote. La La is a savvy new music site for helping people swap CDs via the US Postal Service, according to a...
[August 3, 2006, 11:05]
The Internet is not the music industry's plaything
Leader Unlike the real Superman, the music industry body has not been endowed with god-like powers to change the very fabric of time, space and established law - just a vociferous PR department. Tiscali was extremely unlikely to play ball with the BPI...
[July 13, 2006, 14:10]
The Internet is not the music industry's plaything
Talkback Let's scrap them and let individual artists run themselves as a company, then see how much use and how much we really need music industry oldies! why do we need music industries?
[July 14, 2006, 18:11]
Government warns music industry to adapt to Net
News The government is forecasting the downfall of the UK music industry unless it adapts to the Internet. In his report on the new digital music economy, Culture Secretary Chris Smith warns that pirate MP3 Web sites and foreign competition are in...
[April 5, 2000, 9:13]
The Internet is not the music industry's plaything
Talkback What makes me laugh is that the music industry protrays itself as protecting the artists and ensuring that they "get their due". Only the biggest stars make money in the music business and the first thing they do is set up their own labels to get...
[July 15, 2006, 16:05]
