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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 February 15, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
DRM May Die? Yahoo! Will online music's digital rights management go the way of the dodo? |
InternetNews January 2, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
The RIAA's Uphill Battle Recent research on the state of the music industry signals continued obstacles ahead for the RIAA's strategy. |
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 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 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 May 2, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Apple Sticks With Dollar Downloads Standard pricing for iTunes downloads won't be changing soon. |
The Motley Fool July 20, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
When Aging Music Companies Merge How will the music recording industry reinvigorate itself? |
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 September 27, 2007 Anders Bylund |
Quick Take: RIAA Changes Gears Just Before Hitting Brick Wall Changes are taking place in the Recording Industry Association of America in their fight against illegal downloads. |
The Motley Fool November 6, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
Piracy 101: A Lesson in Suboptimal Lawsuits The University of Oregon and Oregon's state attorney general are pushing back on the Recording Industry of America's attempt to pursue 17 University of Oregon students for file-sharing, claiming an "undue burden" has been put on it. |
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 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 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. |
InternetNews August 31, 2006 Roy Mark |
Beware of Free (Including RIAA Legal Advice?) Trade groups slam new RIAA educational video on copyright laws. |
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... |
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. |
The Motley Fool August 7, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Warner's Not Like a Broken Record Warner Music Group's quarterly results topped expectations. |
The Motley Fool October 8, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
The RIAA Wins, but What Does It Lose? The recording industry wins a legal victory in its anti-piracy crusade, but continues to lose customer respect. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool October 10, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
The Music Industry's Downward Spiral Another musician has gone from turntables to turning the tables on the music industry. Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor announces that the band has liberated itself from record labels. |
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. |
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 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. |
The Motley Fool October 2, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
Radiohead's Sonic Boom Radiohead will allow its fans to pay whatever they like for its newest album, available on the Web, giving fans the opportunity to cut out the middleman and deal directly with their favorite bands. Is this the future of music? |
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. |
InternetNews May 4, 2006 David Miller |
RIAA Targets Piracy 'Hot-Spot' Cities The recording-industry group identifies 12 U.S. cities where counterfeiters are thriving. |
The Motley Fool February 21, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
Reading, Writing, and the RIAA The music industry tries a collegiate crackdown. This seems to be just another example of the music industry's tendency to lash out rather than address the changing landscape. |
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. |
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? |
PC World March 2006 Dan Tynan |
Hollywood vs.Your PC: Round 2 Legal options in digital entertainment are growing. But they come with restrictions that can hobble your ability to enjoy the content you've paid for and even threaten your control over your system. |
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 August 1, 2006 Anders Bylund |
MPAA Goes After the Wrong Target A rich, technically savvy, and possibly innocent lawsuit target could spell trouble for the MPAA and RIAA's blanket lawsuit tactics. Maybe the MPAA bit off more than it could chew with its blind fumbling for alleged Internet miscreants. |
The Motley Fool July 13, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Hold the Music European doubts over one music industry merger may derail another. Arguing that the pairing of desperate labels will stifle competition is just naive. The playing field has moved on. |
PC World January 2002 Frank Thorsberg & Tom Spring |
New Shackles on Your CD, Video Copying In an effort to stem piracy, entertainment companies are placing new copy restrictions into their products... |
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 February 7, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
An Apple Flip-Flop on FairPlay? Apple CEO Steve Jobs is calling for music labels to stop selling music encrypted with digital rights management software. |
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. |
The Motley Fool January 16, 2004 Rex Moore |
Illegal Music Downloads Uptick After months in decline, file sharing is on the rise again. |
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. |
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 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 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 December 22, 2008 Alyce Lomax |
A Different and Disturbing Tactic for the RIAA The silly lawsuits may be over, but more trouble may still be on the horizon. |
The Motley Fool March 25, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
MySpace Faces the Music Warner Music Group and Sony BMG are close to signing a deal that will create new revenue channels in ad-supported music and music videos, pay-per-downloads, and mobile phone delivery. EMI and Universal are likely to follow suit with MySpace. |
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. |
HBS Working Knowledge June 21, 2004 Sean Silverthorne |
Music Downloads: Pirates---or Customers? Internet music piracy not only doesn't hurt legitimate CD sales, it may even boost sales of some types of music. |
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... |