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InternetNews
July 2, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Universal, Apple Set To Play Chicken The Universal Music Group, the largest of the four major record labels and a subsidiary of Vivendi SA, is reportedly trying to change the terms of its contract with Apple for selling digital music through the iTunes store.   |
Home Theater
August 10, 2007
Mark Fleischmann |
Universal to Test No-DRM Downloads Universal Music Group, the world's largest music label, takes a decisive step away from Digital Rights Managed music, and moves closer to a more open DRM-free download retail environment. |
The Motley Fool
May 2, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Apple Sticks With Dollar Downloads Standard pricing for iTunes downloads won't be changing soon. |
InternetNews
January 8, 2008 |
Apple Seen Set to Resolve EU iTunes Case Charges that Apple broke European rules by pricing songs country-by-country may soon be ended. |
Home Theater
September 23, 2008 |
Universal Laughs at the Hangman Universal Music Group has become the first of the big four record labels to significantly increase revenue in many years. |
InternetNews
January 11, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Sony BMG Opens DRM-Free Content to Amazon Sony BMG's move gives Amazon a new boost in its quest to upend iTunes, but where do the record labels' priorities' really lie? |
InternetNews
December 27, 2007 |
Amazon Adds Warner Music to MP3 Downloads Amazon.com has signed on Warner Music Group to its music download service, which aims to compete with Apple's industry-dominating iTunes online store. |
InternetNews
May 25, 2005
Tim Gray |
Report: AOL Close to Video Deal The company looks to cash in on music video sales with Sony BMG partnership, according to a published report. |
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
June 24, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Apple Rocks Europe The iTunes music store serves notice with 800,000 downloads in its first week in Europe. |
InternetNews
August 31, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Apple, NBC Fight Over TV Shows NBC said it won't renew its iTunes contract. Apple said 'see ya.' |
The Motley Fool
September 5, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
Competitors Look to Take a Bite out of Apple Three new music downloading initiatives could threaten iTunes' dominance. Apple, which now generates 45% of its revenue from its iPod/iTunes division, and its investors could find themselves between a rock and a hard place. |
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. |
InternetNews
September 5, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
MySpace Helps Musicians Sell Out Now all those MySpace musicians can find out if anyone is actually willing to pay to listen. |
The Motley Fool
January 17, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Bobbing for Apple Is there room for Apple to charge more for tracks? Probably, but does Universal want to be the one to open up that Pandora's Box? |
BusinessWeek
October 22, 2007
Grover & Burrows |
Universal Music Takes on iTunes Universal chief Doug Morris is enlisting other big music players for a service to challenge the Jobs juggernaut. |
BusinessWeek
December 19, 2005
Peter Burrows |
Apple May Be Holding Back The Music Biz Critics say iTunes-only downloads and inflexible pricing are hurting song sales. |
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. |
InternetNews
May 16, 2007
Erin Joyce |
Amazon To Sell DRM-Free Music Amazon.com turned up the buzz meter in the digital music world today with news it plans to launch an MP3 digital music store without digital rights management restrictions on the songs. |
InternetNews
December 3, 2007 |
Pressure Mounts on Record Labels to Offer MP3s New promotions, successful tests and retailer demands could spell the end of DRM-protected music. |
The Motley Fool
May 10, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Apple's Video Vault Popular digital download site iTunes is taking on some video capability. |
Home Theater
March 19, 2010
Mark Fleischmann |
Universal Slashes CD Prices List prices on all single-disc releases to drop to $6-10. |
The Motley Fool
October 17, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple Drops the Digital-Music Shackles Apple lowers the price of its unrestricted song files. If a customer can buy a DRM-protected track on iTunes at $0.99 a pop, or pick up a DRM-free version at a sonically superior bitrate, it's an easy choice. |
The Motley Fool
January 9, 2008
Alyce Lomax |
Sony's Non-DRM Dud Sony has decided to begin selling DRM-free digital albums, but consumers will have to clear a few hurdles first. |
The Motley Fool
July 20, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Apple of Your Eye? More rumors of video iPods get people buzzing about Apple. Even if Apple unveils such a device, investors need to question whether it will positively affect the iPod's runaway popularity -- or translate into more sales. |
InternetNews
January 15, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Amazon, Pepsi Team For Super Bowl MP3 Giveaway Pepsi-Cola and Amazon have teamed up in a promotion to give away as many as 1 billion songs from Amazon MP3. |
The Motley Fool
November 22, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
iTunes Climbs the Charts Apple's music store makes the third quarter's top 10 music retailers. Surprised? Its investors aren't. |
The Motley Fool
September 5, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Back to School: Music's Been Caught Stealing Yesterday and today, college kids and music go hand in hand, although many things have changed. Apple's iPod makes it easy for them to carry their entire music collections everywhere, but how have they obtained that collection? |
The Motley Fool
August 22, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Before You Bite Into That Apple ... Investors, no one is building a better mousetrap than Apple, but a DRM-free world will be loaded with cheaper knock-off mousetraps. With the world's largest retailer and the country's most popular e-tailer nibbling on the cheese, something's going to snap. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Apple's iTunes Rocks Japan The iTunes Music Store sets another new record. Impressive though that is, Apple's stock remains expensive. |
InternetNews
November 9, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Microsoft 'Raising Stakes' With Zune? Royalty deal with Universal music comes on eve of launch of iPod-killer music device. |
The Motley Fool
January 23, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
SNOCAP's Indie Spirit Giving indie labels a better form of distribution is as significant as allowing artists to sell directly to fans, another possible effect if MySpace's music commerce initiative really takes off. |
InternetNews
April 3, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
MySpace Music Goes Mainstream MySpace announced its long-awaited joint music venture this morning, unveiling details about a far-ranging service it will offer in partnership with three of the four major record labels. |
InternetNews
March 19, 2008 |
Apple Talks to Labels About Unlimited Music: Report A new pricing plan for iTunes? |
InternetNews
March 4, 2011
Michelle Megna |
Apple Making iTunes Cloud Play? Apple may strike a deal with music labels to let iTunes users download purchased music as many times as they want on multiple mobile devices, according to reports. |
InternetNews
January 28, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Amazon Taking Its MP3 Store Global Beginning later this year, Amazon plans to roll out international versions of its DRM-free music store. |
The Motley Fool
July 13, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Apple: 100 Million Served Apple Computer celebrates a digital music downloading milestone. |
Wired
November 27, 2007
Seth Mnookin |
Universal's CEO Once Called iPod Users Thieves. Now He's Giving Songs Away. After years of tightening controls on his company's content, Universal Music Group's CEO has become entangled in digital strategies whether he wants to be or not and is planning to unify Apple's competitors in what amounts to a coordinated attack on the iPod. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon.com Cranks Up the Music Amazon, the country's leading online retailer, will launch its eagerly anticipated MP3 store in three weeks. The company will be selling songs in the MP3 format, free of digital rights management. Will it take a bite out of Apple? |
Popular Mechanics
September 5, 2007
Glenn Derene |
The iTunes Store... With Subscriptions? Buzzword As Steve Jobs unveiled the new Apple iPod Touch and iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, we wonder what it would take for a DRM-free, flat-rate music store to go from record-label nightmare to user-friendly dream come true? |
InternetNews
August 10, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Best Buy, Universal Join DRM-Free Jam Universal Music Group will make some of its music available without digital rights management software. |
The Motley Fool
January 7, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Apple Boring? No, Brilliant! Many reporters say Apple failed to wow at its final Macworld Expo, but this analyst passionately disagrees. |
The Motley Fool
March 7, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple's Next Challenge Apple's iTunes will soon have its head in the clouds. |
InternetNews
January 8, 2004
Michael Singer |
HP Sings Apple iPod, iTunes The deal includes 'competitive' pricing of the music player and pre-loaded iTunes on desktop and notebook consumer PCs. |
BusinessWeek
April 2, 2007
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Apple TV's Blurry Future For now, there's too little content available to make the box worthwhile. |
Home Theater
December 10, 2007 |
DG Loses the DRM Deutsche Grammophon, the historic classical label owned by the Universal Music Group, has become the largest one of its kind to stop using digital rights management for online music sales. |
Home Theater
April 10, 2009 |
iTunes Ditches DRM Apple will eliminate digital rights management from all songs sold through iTunes. |
Home Theater
December 7, 2005
Darryl Wilkinson |
More iPrimetime on the iPod Yesterday, Apple and NBC Universal announced an unprecedented lineup of new primetime, cable, late-night and classic TV shows is now available on the iTunes Music Store. |
InternetNews
March 5, 2008 |
Facebook in Talks With Major Music Labels: Report Social networking site Facebook has approached major music labels about launching a music service. |
