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Microsoft bans employees from music swapping
News Microsoft warned its employees on Thursday night that no swapping of music or other files is to occur via its PCs or networks. Last week, tech executives, including Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer, sent a letter to Hollywood studio chiefs...
[July 29, 2002, 9:07]
Swapping doesn't hurt music sales - study
News Even high levels of file-swapping seemed to translate into an effect on album sales that was "statistically indistinguishable from zero," they wrote. A study of file-sharing's effects on music sales says online music trading appears to have had...
[March 30, 2004, 10:45]
Swapping doesn't hurt music sales - study
Talkback music sales have slumped because CD's have been recognised as the rip-off's they are. Charging £14 for a 1970's album or £5 for a single with 6 versions of the same song is a joke, and now we don't have to fall for it.
[March 30, 2004, 13:03]
Swapping doesn't hurt music sales - study
Talkback To be honest I downloaded a whole load of music in the good old audiogalaxy days, when you could get what you wanted easily. I would like to salute the site for putting me in contact with alternative music I never knew the name of.
[March 30, 2004, 22:14]
Swapping doesn't hurt music sales - study
Talkback I bought around 3 CD's last year, down from about 3-4 a month, BUT I don't have any ripped music that I don't already own in some form or another. Having them ripped makes listening to a variety of music much simpler than having to dig my way...
[March 30, 2004, 12:01]
Swapping doesn't hurt music sales - study
Talkback File sharing must be legalized. Xerox machines are legal, Replay TV are legal too so what's the difference?
[October 13, 2005, 8:06]
Swapping doesn't hurt music sales - study
Talkback so if you are spending it on DVD's or games etc how can you spend the same as you used to on music? also the fact you can acquire music for free off P2P systems doesnt mean you would have gone out & bought it.however i personally think it has...
[March 30, 2004, 15:42]
UK site will be first for legal music swapping
News Wippit, the UK-based peer-to-peer music service that is on track to launch this autumn, is poised to announce important deals with at least two major record labels. The big five record labels -- Warner Music Group, Bertelsmann, Sony Music, Vivendi...
[August 28, 2001, 17:20]
UK music-swapping service bites at Napster's heels
News The music industry was slow to react to the potential of the Internet, leaving a gap in the market that was filled by independent peer-to-peer services such as Napster and Gnutella. Recently, however, they have announced a number of new initiatives...
[August 10, 2001, 16:13]
Napster clones toe music industry line
News The record industry's attempts to stop online song trading are gaining traction beyond Napster, as other leading music-swapping sites have begun blocking downloads of copyrighted tunes on their services.
[April 9, 2001, 7:50]
Napster faces new lawsuits
News At least some of those songs were included in the first filter thrown up by the music-swapping company last Sunday. Although the lawsuits contribute little that is new to the company's legal troubles, they do threaten to make life more difficult...
[March 8, 2001, 9:06]
Napster announces deal with publishers
News Music-swapping company Napster announced a major deal with music publishers on Monday, settling part of its outstanding lawsuit and helping clear the way for its planned subscription service. The fallen file-swapping company has been hunting for...
[September 25, 2001, 11:33]
Kazaa finds friends in file-swapping fight
News Powerful computer and telecommunications companies are allying with upstart file-swapping service Kazaa in a bid to overhaul the way record labels are paid for music and other content distributed on the Net.
[May 16, 2002, 13:12]
Napster fans: Where's the loyalty?
News Although they're quick to defend the music file-swapping service that has given them free tunes for months, fans seem to have little loyalty to Napster as it battles the courts. In recent weeks, millions of people have downloaded software for...
[March 5, 2001, 8:57]
Napster signs up record labels
News The file-swapping service has seen its audience dwindle as a court order has forced progressively more music off the service. The tie-in between MusicNet and Napster is not surprising, although it does mark another step backward for the once-proud...
[June 6, 2001, 9:13]
Music publishers file latest lawsuit
News A group representing music publishers and songwriters on Tuesday filed a federal suit against some makers of file-swapping software, marking the latest in a string of legal tangles over copyright infringement on the Internet.
[November 21, 2001, 10:02]
Napster blamed for plunge in singles sales
News The music industry said yesterday that Internet music-swapping site Napster is responsible for a substantial decline in sales of CD singles. The claim has been made before by the music industry, but Napster has always denied it, insisting there is...
[February 26, 2001, 14:33]
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. University students have been widely viewed as the...
[April 4, 2003, 8:01]
Bidding war for Scour heats up
News Late Thursday, online music company Liquid Audio said it would enter the auction for the assets of bankrupt file-swapping company Scour, pitting itself against Listen.com and smaller company CenterSpan Communications.
[December 8, 2000, 9:43]
RIAA backs song-identification firm
News A new political battle is brewing over Net music swapping, focusing on a company that claims to be able to automatically identify copyrighted songs on networks like Kazaa and block illegal downloads. The group says Audible Magic's technology, or...
[March 3, 2004, 11:25]
