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PC World October 2005 Anne Kandrta	How to Beat the Music Download Blues Incompatible formats and players can make getting music online a headache. Here's some advice to help you pick up your favorite tunes online without hassles.
Home Theater October 5, 2007	Copying Is Stealing, Says Sony BMG A single mother of two was successfully sued for using peer-to-peer file sharing to violate numerous copyrights. What may ultimately come to matter more than the verdict were some of the details that emerged along the way.
The Motley Fool November 14, 2005 Alyce Lomax	What Were You Thinking, Sony? Increasingly, music companies like Sony BMG are treating their customers like criminals who borrow, rather than purchase, their products. Sony's recent move goes way beyond that idea -- providing an intrusive technology that, in effect, hijacked its customers' computers.
PC Magazine January 18, 2006 Michael J. Miller	Now Showing on Small Screens Technology is poised to change TV and movies in the same way as online music stores and digital music players have rewritten the rules for music distribution.
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PC Magazine November 29, 2006 Rick Broida	Buying Guide: Online Music Services Two thousand six may well be remembered as the year music subscription services went platinum.
BusinessWeek December 19, 2005 Stephen H. Wildstrom	Just Let Us Play The Movie The entertainment industry has a great opportunity for new markets, and the PC and consumer-electronics industries have an opening for new products. But realizing this potential will require all of them to show some respect for their customers.
PC World April 11, 2002 Tom Spring	Face the Music: Suits Pending Over Copy Controls Class action suits may spring from consumer complaints of surreptitious CD copy protection...
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PC World December 2003 Anne Kandra	To Copy or Not to Copy? Here's what the law says you can -- and can't -- do with digital media files.
InternetNews March 1, 2005 Roy Mark	P2P Companies Set Stage for Supreme Court Appearance File-sharing software makers claim Hollywood wants to control both content and distribution by overturning Sony Betamax standard.
InternetNews January 30, 2007 Roy Mark	Sony BMG Settles FTC DRM Charges Sony BMG Music agreed Tuesday it violated federal law by not telling consumers CDs sold by the company contained digital rights management software that monitored user listening habits to send them marketing messages.
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PC Magazine March 14, 2007 Dan Costa	DRM Is Dead Sure, the RIAA can sue a handful of students each year and shut down a P2P network every six months, but this is just legal Whac-A-Mole. It doesn't solve the problem.
PC Magazine November 11, 2003 Cade Metz	Let the Music Play We review all the tools you need to satisfy your digital music urges.
The Motley Fool January 2, 2008 Alyce Lomax	We're All Thieves to the RIAA The Recording Industry Association of America is going after consumers who have copied their own legally purchased CDs onto their own MP3s.
PC Magazine November 30, 2005 Bill Machrone	If I Told You, I'd Have to . . . It's illegal to talk about how to circumvent copy protection. In your home, in your car, anywhere. Get the picture?
PC World September 2005 Harry McCracken	Technology on Trial: What's at Stake Will legal clashes smother breakthrough products before they ever appear?
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Stephen Cass	Antipiracy Software Opens Door to Electronic Intruders When security researchers in the U.S. and Finland discovered the music CD/rootkit problem, Sony BMG's reaction was so bad that it will probably be seen in future years as a textbook example of a botched corporate response.
PC World January 18, 2002 Tom Spring	Digital Music: Worth Buying Yet? Analysis: Official music sites debut, intended to nudge digital downloads to legitimacy--but they're more trouble than they're worth.
The Motley Fool June 21, 2005 Alyce Lomax	Play It, Don't Burn It, Sam The controversy over music and copyright continue with word of a new copyright protection technology that severely limits what CD buyers can do with their music. Is the record industry going too far, and hurting its prospects in the process?
Salon.com March 27, 2001 Charles C. Mann	Napster-proof CDs The music industry has a secret plan to safeguard popular music from the wild Web...
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The Motley Fool April 17, 2007 Alyce Lomax	Sony Blunders With DRM Again The electronics giant's zeal to protect copyright punishes customers. If Sony doesn't start rethinking its attitude toward DRM and its effect on consumers, it seems likely the company is going to suffer more negative perceptions. And for Sony investors, that's a real risk to contemplate.
InternetNews November 16, 2005 Jim Wagner	Sony Recalls Rootkit-Plagued CDs Sony BMG is recalling the copyright-protected music CDs that have been causing no end of grief to the company.
InternetNews November 21, 2005 Jim Wagner	Sony Sued Over DRM Rootkit Sony BMG's copy-protection software draws lawsuits from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the state of Texas.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Trope & Power	The Lessons of MGM v. Grokster For creators of innovative technologies and as a consequence of the copyright-infringement suit, the line between corporate liability and being at rest in a safe harbor was moved and remains imprecise. However, the Supreme Court opinion contains substantial guidance.
The Motley Fool June 28, 2005 Tom Taulli	Court to Grokster: Download This! Demolishing file-sharers won't solve the media industry's long-term challenges. What's to stop programmers in, say, Estonia, from developing a P2P network? And what other new-fangled technologies will change the industry?
The Motley Fool July 6, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Yahoo! China's Sour Notes Is Britain's International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's copyright lawsuit against Yahoo! China good business for the recording industry?
InternetNews November 2, 2005 Jim Wagner	Digging Out Sony's DRM Rootkit Using a technique popularized by malware writers, Sony runs software behind the scenes of its copy-protected CDs.
Salon.com June 13, 2002 Damien Cave	File sharing: Innocent until proven guilty An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't -- and he doesn't know why.
InternetNews June 27, 2005 Roy Mark	High Court Rules Against P2P The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that peer-to-peer technology developers are legally responsible for the illegal acts of their users.
The Motley Fool June 14, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	Compact Discs: The New 8-Track Major labels meet the future -- reluctantly. Online music stores represent the future of the music biz as evidenced by newly public Warner Music Group's report of $4 million in net income thanks, in part, to $31 million in digital music revenue that offset a similar-sized decline in CD sales.
BusinessWeek March 29, 2004 Larry Armstrong	E-Tune Shopping With downloading now legit, online music stores have similar catalogs. It's the extras that set them apart.
The Motley Fool October 17, 2007 Alyce Lomax	Universal's Apple Turnover? Universal comes up with a dull strategy to try to tarnish Apple's shine. It's a crucial time for the music industry, but a service that seeks to lock consumers out of hardware and services they've already embraced isn't a surefire approach.
InternetNews August 19, 2004 Roy Mark	P2Ps Score Landmark Legal Victory Appeals court rebuffs movie and music industry claims that file-swapping developers are liable for copyright infringement.
PC World January 21, 2003 Joris Evers	New Microsoft Tools Copy Protect CDs and DVDs Software will allow recording companies to restrict what you can do with CDs and DVDs on your computer.
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