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Music Industry Unveils Internet Amnesty Plan
Talkback When we have a national buy no music month long boycott all of these suits will stop
[September 9, 2003, 23:14]
Music Labels Are Not Taking Napster's Bait
News Napster's offer to the music industry of a $1bn (£600m) payment over five years met with a cool reception today. Universal Music was the first of the Big Five labels to respond to Napster's offer. Analysts had already suggested that the record...
[February 21, 2001, 15:34]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Music Kiosks To Aid Digital Revolution
News Consumers will be given an alternative method for purchasing music when Liquid Audio rolls out its digital music kiosks this spring. Industry and analysts believe that the arrival of this new channel could speed the UK's adoption of digital music.
[March 6, 2000, 13:38]
Piracy Focus: Music To CD-ROM - No Problem
News But the wobble has failed and contrary to Sony and Phillips' plans copyright music can be successfully copied to a CD-ROM and enjoyed on either a computer or a dedicated audio CD player. Is the music industry really hurt by piracy?
[June 16, 1998, 16:40]
US Report: Music To Be Distributed Online
News GoodNoise plans to take advantage of the growing community, mostly college students, who download and trade high-quality music clips over the Net. The trend has been given a boost by the dropping prices of CD writers, which allow users to cheaply...
[June 30, 1998, 14:52]
Music Stars Tempt Teen Girls Into Technology
News A nationwide initiative called ITbeat, supported by the Department of Trade and Industry, e-skills UK, IBM, the Science Museum, British Phonographic Industry and music industry stars, has been set up to convince girls that working in IT is "cool".
[November 7, 2002, 14:36]
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 Store Experiments With Floating Prices
News A little known online music store is experimenting with a new pricing system in which most songs start out costing 10 cents, and their prices fluctuate from there based on customer demand. Like every other music service, MusicRebellion has fixed...
[January 9, 2004, 7:35]
Music Players 'cause Trouble' For IT Helpdesks
News IT directors have hit out against the use of digital music players at work because they increase the workload on the helpdesk, a study published this week claimed. Two factors were cited - consumption of network bandwidth by users sharing music...
[October 26, 2005, 16:20]
Music Pirate Faces Prison Term
News The US Department of Justice said on Thursday that it had accepted a guilty plea in a criminal copyright case involving the former leader of a Net music piracy group called the Apocalypse Crew. This plea shows that those who steal copyrighted music...
[August 22, 2003, 10:45]
Music Online: Big Boys Team Up On Delivery System
News Seagram Co.s Universal Music Group is enlisting powerful allies including AT&T Corp. BMG Entertainment and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.to back its digital music-delivery system in an aggressive push to become the de facto standard for...
[May 6, 1999, 15:08]
Music Downloads Good For CD Sales - Report
News Contrary to previous research, downloading digital music over the Internet actually increases the sales of CDs according to the latest survey from the Digital Media Association, says The Wall Street Journal Thursday.
[June 15, 2000, 14:33]
Gadgets 'new Must-have Of 2004' - Music Boss
News 2004 will be the year of portable "music gadgets" and will see a number of new businesses entering the online music market, according to Domenic Carosa, chief executive of Australian digital-music provider Destra Corporation.
[January 2, 2004, 9:20]
Music Industry Gives MP3 The All Clear
News The Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) -- a consortium of major music labels and technology companies looking to protect digital music -- have backed off plans to block MP3 music copied from CDs, according to analysts and music insiders.
[June 29, 1999, 8:37]
US Report: Diamond To Release MP3 Walkman - Music Industry Unhappy
News The so-called MP3 files -- short for MPEG1 Layer 3 -- play near-CD-quality music from a relatively tiny file. It's already the format of choice for audio pirates passing music over the Internet. And if MP3 -- which today lacks basic copy protection...
[September 14, 1998, 9:36]
Music Search Tools Target Tastes
News A new generation of music recommendation services is emerging, aimed at helping listeners navigate the often bewildering mass of music now legally available online. While still very far from perfect -- and sure to face the continuing skepticism of...
[December 12, 2003, 10:20]
