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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.
Home Theater November 15, 2005 Mark Fleischmann	Deep Rifts Exposed in Sony BMG Faux Pas Sony BMG's boneheaded misuse of hacker technology has potentially compromised the security of millions of PCs, inspired a bunch of computer viruses, provoked class-action lawsuits, caused a firestorm of protest in online forums, and even attracted veiled criticism from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
PC World September 2005 Laurianne McLaughlin	Copyright Crackdown New XCP2 technology on music CDs limits the number of copies you can make -- and gets in the way of putting tunes on an IPod.
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.
The Motley Fool May 20, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Music's 2010 Overture If traditional radio and the major record labels want to matter in five years, they better make some changes.
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 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.
The Motley Fool October 25, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Spitzer Pumps Up the Volume New York's attorney general aims at the shady practice of payola in the music industry.
The Motley Fool February 15, 2007 Alyce Lomax	DRM May Die? Yahoo! Will online music's digital rights management go the way of the dodo?
InternetNews December 27, 2005 Roy Mark	NY State May Probe Digital Download Pricing In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing last week, Warner Music Group disclosed that it had received subpoenas regarding the pricing of digital music downloads.
Wired February 2003 Frank Rose	The Civil War Inside Sony Sony Music wants to entertain you. Sony Electronics wants to equip you. The problem is that when it comes to digital media, their interests are diametrically opposed.
The Motley Fool July 27, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	Payola: That Same Old Song Sony pays $10 million to settle for its pay-for-play transgressions. Payola's not dead after all.
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.
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.
The Motley Fool October 3, 2005 Alyce Lomax	Music's Mixed Messages Digital downloading of music -- the legal way -- continues to gain momentum. The rapidly growing market for digital music underlines why so many companies are eyeing Apple's success and hoping to get their piece of the market.
The Motley Fool April 2, 2008 Alyce Lomax	A Big Mistake at Sony BMG A small French company has alleged that Sony BMG pirated its software.
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.
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...
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.
Knowledge@Wharton July 2, 2003	Online Music Wings its Way to the Celestial Jukebox In a celestial jukebox, instead of downloading songs to a computer hard drive or burning them onto a CD, listeners log onto a site that streams the music directly to their computers for immediate listening. It's like having your own all-request FM channel.
The Motley Fool January 17, 2007 Alyce Lomax	Digital Music's Double Trouble The major labels' resistance to innovation, penny-pinching ways, and frequent complaints about piracy and the flagging popularity of CDs leave them ripe for disruption. Digital distribution should be only too happy to oblige.
Home Theater July 19, 2007	Sony BMG Bites DRM Developer Sony BMG is suing one of two developers of digital rights management schemes that spooked consumers, compromised the security of their PCs, and forced the music label to pay settlements in numerous lawsuits.
Salon.com November 2, 2000 Eric Boehlert	In defense of (Napster) collusion Music consumers will benefit if Bertelsmann can convince the major record labels to conspire.
PC World November 5, 2001 Tom Spring	Music Labels Target CD Ripping Claiming to fight piracy, labels test copy protection to keep audio CDs from going digital...
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 June 1, 2001 Janelle Brown	The music revolution will not be digitized The dust is clearing from the online entertainment wars. Who won? The record labels. Who lost? Consumers...
The Motley Fool December 30, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Sony Says I'm Sorry ... 21st-Century Style Sony, despite some recent missteps, tries to set things right with its spyware fiasco. While the stock has certainly been strong, who can buy a company that seems committed to tripping over its own digital feet and aggravating consumers in the pursuit of more money?
PC Magazine December 21, 2005 Larry Seltzer	Heard Any Good Malware Lately? Digital rights shouldn't violate civil rights as Sony's DRM rootkit seems to do.
The Motley Fool July 5, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Universal Music's Bright Idea Can the music industry save the CD format? There's clearly no excuse for the industry to suppose that the old way is the right way any longer.
The Motley Fool August 21, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Apple's Unlimited Appeal Apple's iTunes may be ready to roll out a subscription model.
The Motley Fool June 18, 2008 Anders Bylund	Kiss Wasn't Made for Lovin' the Internet File-sharing and downloading have put the concrete boots on the traditional business of selling CDs, and some music groups are not happy about it. But the new world order of the music industry might turn up faster than we thought.
Home Toys February 2006	DVD Insider #49 Sony's rootkit fiasco has RIAA execs thinking twice about how intrusive they make their DRM. Maybe they should send their lawyers to the pirates' lairs and focus on figuring out how to make a living in the always-on Internet.
The Motley Fool December 5, 2005 Alyce Lomax	Steaming Streaming Music RealNetworks continues its aggressive stance in the music biz with an Internet-based version of its Rhapsody subscription service that will allow people to use the service anywhere, even when they are not at their own computers.
InternetNews March 3, 2006 Ed Sutherland	NewProbe of Online Music Underway The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed that the department's antitrust unit is looking into the four largest record labels and possible "uncompetitive practices" of music download pricing.
The Motley Fool September 24, 2007 Anders Bylund	RIAA's Day in Court Nearly Over Recording companies may have expected easy victories when they began their much-maligned campaign to sue alleged illegal music downloaders. But many defendants decided to fight back, with great success.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2005 Alyce Lomax	RealNetworks Gets Real Who is RealNetworks threatening with its new subscription service and monthly music giveaway? It's clear that the market for music is highly coveted, with the potential for plenty of growth -- and it's also clear that Apple's currently got a huge chunk of that market.
The Motley Fool December 16, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Throw This Stock Away Warner Music Group is part of an archaic industry that has been suffering in recent years. Is it time to get rid of this stock?
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.
The Motley Fool February 4, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Yahoo!'s Boo-hemian Rhapsody Yahoo! is finally in the process of shuttering its Yahoo! Music Unlimited service, sending its current subscriber base and any future leads to Rhapsody America.
The Motley Fool April 7, 2004 Alyce Lomax	The Death of Dollar Downloads? If dollar music downloads go away, some good, old-fashioned rock 'n roll rebellion could be cooking.
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.
Salon.com December 18, 2001 Paul Boutin	Don't steal music, pretty please Record companies will make big, big money online. They just need to learn to let go...
InternetNews November 7, 2005 Jim Wagner	Sony Facing Not-so-Secretive Legal Action The Electronic Frontier Foundation is investigating whether to file a class-action lawsuit against Sony BMG for its anti-piracy activities on consumer computers.
The Motley Fool December 22, 2005 Alyce Lomax	More Sucking Sounds at Sony The state of Texas cries foul over Sony's spyware practices, again. But it seems that many investors still retain a lot of belief in Sony, given that its stock price continues to go up.
The Motley Fool October 5, 2005 Steven Mallas	Microsoft Scraps Music Plans High royalty demands from labels sink Microsoft's interest in a music subscription service. Let's hope the music companies and the online companies can work this out. Even if it doesn't propel the stock into the stratosphere, Microsoft and music subscription services would be a good fit.
The Motley Fool January 11, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Music for the Masses Sony, the fourth and final major music label to offer downloadable tunes in the unshackled MP3 format, will be available in the virtual aisles of Amazon.com later this month.
The Motley Fool January 15, 2008 Anders Bylund	RIAA Blasts Its Customers, Again The lumbering dinosaurs of the music biz just can't stop suing, becoming even more audacious in its campaign against American college students.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	You've Got Napster Napster cozies up to AOL in a new music subscription deal.
The Motley Fool December 2, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman	Warner's Big Hit The major music label shrugs off Spitzer woes and analyst estimates. Is now the time for investors to dive in?
The Motley Fool October 4, 2007 Alyce Lomax	RIAA: The Beatings Go On The music industry's fight against piracy continues, with a high-profile trial currently in progress. The courtroom action reveals that such lawsuits could be a major cash burn for the labels prosecuting them.