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Wired December 18, 2007 David Byrne |
David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists -- and Megastars What is called the music business today has became the business of selling CDs in plastic cases, and that business will soon be over. But there have never been more opportunities for artists to reach an audience. |
Salon.com April 23, 2002 Damien Cave |
Musician to Napster judge: Let my music go A 1960s-era recording artist says he can't get Sony to pay royalties, so his psychedelic pop might as well be free... |
Salon.com June 14, 2000 Courtney Love |
Courtney Love does the math The controversial singer takes on record label profits, Napster and "sucka VCs." |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Peer-to-Peer Music Trading: Good Publicity or Bad Precedent? Advance publicity is key to record albums' success, states Wharton marketing professor Peter Fader -- and by trying to stamp out peer-to-peer music trading, record companies are shooting themselves in the foot. |
Salon.com July 28, 2000 Salon Technology Staff |
Napster wins last-minute reprieve A federal appeals court granted Napster a new lease on life Friday afternoon, only hours before a court-ordered deadline would have required the service to shut down. |
AskMen.com Kevin Young |
How To: Start A Record Label More than ever, smaller record labels are wielding serious clout in the music industry. Here are some tips to success in this industry. |
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... |
Wired February 2003 Charles C. Mann |
The Year The Music Dies Record labels are under attack from all sides -- file sharers and performers, even equipment manufacturers and good old-fashioned customers -- and it's killing them. A moment of silence, please. |
Salon.com September 6, 2001 Anthony York |
Courtney Love's big Sacramento adventure The singer and actress takes her campaign against the record industry to the California legislature... |
Reason October 2000 Jesse Walker |
Music for Nothing Why Napster isn't the end of the world. Or even the music industry... |
AskMen.com Craig Mazin |
5 Things You Didn't Know About Record Deals The basic fact underlying recording contracts is that their terms tilt heavily towards the benefit of the labels, not the artists. Many of the terms border on swindling. |
Salon.com February 12, 2001 |
Victory or defeat? Did the record industry's court triumph insure a future full of profits -- or seal its doom? Experts weigh in... |
The Motley Fool December 11, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Recording Industry Gets It? Not Industries that don't present themselves as particularly friendly to customers and suppliers are tasty candidates for disruption, and that's been abundantly clear regarding the recording industry for years now. |
Salon.com December 19, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
Music industry in the pits! Record sales are down, no one's seeing concerts, no one's advertising on radio and the stars are revolting... |
The Motley Fool July 9, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
CD Is the New Vinyl As compact disc sales continue falling, the industry must take a stand. In the worst-case scenario for the labels, the distribution power will shift toward recording artists. In the best-case scenario, the exact same thing happens -- just a bit more slowly. Investors, take note. |
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? |
Salon.com December 2, 1999 Emily Vander Veer |
Singing the MP3 blues Indie musicians find online music distributors every bit as greedy as the recording industry they aim to replace. |
Home Theater March 6, 2008 |
Musicians Demand Copyright Cash Little of the millions of dollars in settlements major record labels have collected in copyright-infringement suits has been shared with recording artists. |
Salon.com August 1, 2000 Eric Boehlert |
The great MP3 love fest Has the press given Napster a free ride? |
Salon.com July 27, 2000 Scott Rosenberg |
Why the music industry has nothing to celebrate Napster's shutdown will only cause a thousand alternatives to bloom. |
PC Magazine February 25, 2004 John C. Dvorak |
Ode to Napster, Music's Last Hope Protection schemes, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and lawsuits against file sharers are not going to save the music business. The Recording Industry Association of America is announcing another 532 John Doe lawsuits against peer-to-peer file sharers. |
Fast Company April 2006 Alyssa Danigelis |
Fast Talk: Sounds of the Future Digital music is a many-splendored thing - and it's more than just the iPod. Everyone from major labels to individual artists is experimenting. What's next - and why is Madonna sure to be a part of it? |
Salon.com February 9, 2001 Janelle Brown |
The Napster parasites Online marketers are snooping around in your hard drive, taking notes on every MP3 file you download... |
The Motley Fool July 5, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Stocks That Will Rock Your World Some stocks that sound good today will sound even better in the future. As the broadband migration advances, the music industry faces a total makeover. Instead of EMI and Sony dominating, think Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! |
Reason Aug/Sep 2000 Nick Gillespie |
Cutting Out the Middlemen It's easier than ever for artists to reach audiences directly. But is that always a good thing? |
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? |
The Motley Fool July 20, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
When Aging Music Companies Merge How will the music recording industry reinvigorate itself? |
PC World February 20, 2001 Martyn Williams |
Napster Apparently Angling to Settle Embattled music-sharing site, preparing to change its ways, offers $1 billion to record companies... |
Macworld August 2000 Christopher Breen |
Steal This Song Will Napster Change The Way we Buy--or--Don't Buy Music Forever? |
The Motley Fool June 8, 2007 Emil Lee |
Can Warner Music Group Cross the Digital Chasm? Warner Music has a very strong lineup of artists, and there are plenty of people who want the product, but they need to keep the momentum going as the company continues to explore potential revenue paths in digital distribution. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool February 23, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Save the Grammy for Grandma You're not too old to invest in the new music revolution. |
Home Theater June 9, 2008 |
Major Label Expands to Survive The Universal Music Group will now manage classical artists and book concerts, moving into territory previously off-limits to most record labels. |
Salon.com June 14, 2000 Janelle Brown |
RIAA tries to shut down Napster By moving for an injunction against the file-swapping service, the recording industry shows just how little it gets the Net. |
The Motley Fool March 31, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Live Nation Dates a Legend The concert promoter signs a savvy twelve-year deal with U2. |
The Motley Fool November 26, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is the Recording Industry Worth Saving? Warner holds up better than its peers, but it's still down. |
The Motley Fool November 28, 2005 Shannon Zimmerman |
Music Biz Blues The industry must recognize the their fragile business model is in need of an extreme makeover and their copyright-protection antics are generating enormous ill-will among the very folks who are supposed to be their customers. |
The Motley Fool August 7, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Warner's Not Like a Broken Record Warner Music Group's quarterly results topped expectations. |
Salon.com September 14, 2000 Janelle Brown |
Revenge of the Pumpkins Beware, record labels -- treat your bands better, or you'll get Napstered. |
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. |
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 November 11, 2003 Cade Metz |
Let the Music Play We review all the tools you need to satisfy your digital music urges. |
Salon.com November 30, 2001 Richard Barbrook |
How the music industry blew it John Alderman's "Sonic Boom" recounts the history of Napster -- and the unstoppable rise of file trading. |
PC World March 2002 Kevin McKean |
Up Front: Why Your CD-RW May Be Obsolete Restrictive new copyright protections could lock you out of your own music CDs... |
Salon.com August 7, 2000 Eric Boehlert |
Napster vs. the record stores Is the file-sharing craze bruising retailers? |
Salon.com July 7, 2000 Eric Boehlert |
Napster death match, Round 3 Fending off a life-threatening court injunction, file-swapping phenom Napster insists it has done nothing wrong. |
Salon.com July 27, 2000 Damien Cave & Kaitlin Quistgaard |
Court to Napster: You're going down The judge vents her wrath on the Napster "monster" and closes the music-swapping service -- for now. |
Fast Company November 2013 Alison Overholt |
The Right To Be Heard (And Paid) Patreon is a crowdfunding site that enables artists to sell material to their fans. Some 3,000 creators have signed up since its May launch. |
Fast Company May 2001 John Ellis |
Groove makes it possible to light up the edge Looking back, you can see how software programs have changed business -- and the culture of business -- forever. In 20 or 30 years, people will probably look back at the present moment and say that peer-to-peer computing changed the game... |
Salon.com July 20, 2001 Scott Rosenberg |
Revenge of the file-sharing masses! By smashing Napster, the music industry has pushed its customers to seek alternatives that won't be so easy to shut down... |
Linux Journal May 2, 2002 Tom Poe |
Community-Based Recording Studios: A Look into the Future A proposal to build free recording studios within communities as a way to increase the Public Domain and circumvent the recording industry. |