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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...   |
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... |
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... |
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
Salon.com
May 23, 2002
Thomas Claburn |
Give it away now Music start-up FightCloud.com offers CDs free, but says it's making a profit. How can that be? |
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. |
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. |
Salon.com
June 5, 2000
Eric Boehlert |
All over the MAP Why record execs are furious at the FTC and the press. |
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. |
PC World
April 12, 2002
Tom Spring |
Gateway Ads Hit Sour Chord With Music Industry RIAA calls anti-copy controls campaign 'misleading scare tactics'... |
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. |
InternetNews
January 5, 2006
Roy Mark |
EFF Wants Protection For CD Research The Electronic Frontier Foundation wants Sony EMI to grant legal protections for computer security researchers examining the copy-protection technologies of the music giant. |
PC World
December 5, 2000
Laura Rohde |
My.MP3.com Makes a Comeback Controversial music streaming service returns in free and fee-based versions. |
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. |
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. |
PC World
June 2002
Tom Spring |
Consumer Alert: Feds Eye Copy Locks for PC Gear Congress gets into copy controls fray as tech firms, Hollywood duke it out... |
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. |
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. |
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? |
Home Toys
June 2006
Scott Bahneman |
Sea Change in the Music Industry Benefits Consumers The digital music revolution is upon us and it's changing the landscape of the music industry as we know it. Accounting for $1.1 billion in 2005 music revenues, online music services now represent six percent of global music sales. |
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. |
Home Theater
June 28, 2007 |
Brits Still Love CDs British music fans were still buying CDs in 2006 at the same rate as in 2005. |
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? |
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. |
Salon.com
July 30, 2002
Farhad Manjoo |
Sour notes The legal crackdown hasn't squelched MP3 trading -- it's just made it more of a pain. But the music industry would still rather fight than give its online customers what they want. |
PC World
March 2003
Steve Fox |
Plugged In: Crackdown Coming on CD Copying Plus: Gadgets get tossed, small biz gets help, and Big Brother gets nosy. |
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
November 2, 2000
Eric Boehlert |
In defense of (Napster) collusion Music consumers will benefit if Bertelsmann can convince the major record labels to conspire. |
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... |
Reason
December 2003
Nick Gillespie |
Music Meltdown Ever since Napster mainstreamed unauthorized sharing of copyrighted materials, record labels have been singing the blues -- and for obvious reasons. But a good chunk of the decline stems from the music biz's own actions. It has steadfastly raised prices on CDs while releasing less new music. |
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... |
InternetNews
December 24, 2003
Roy Mark |
DOJ Ends Antitrust Probe of Online Music Justice concludes marketplace has resolved early questions of possible anti-competitive behavior of major music labels. |
PC World
July 2001
Eric Dahl |
SimpliCD: No-Hassle CD-Burning Software Creating CDs is easy and fast with inexpensive software that rivals Roxio's popular Easy CD Creator... |
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. |
PC Magazine
February 16, 2005
Bill Machrone |
Unlock Protected Music When you buy music from an online service, you may want to move it to a different format. Here's how. |
PC World
August 2003
Frank Thorsberg |
Consumer Alert: Copy Controls Crackdown Multimedia lovers find themselves caught in a digital vise these days, as Hollywood tightens its copyright controls on movies, games, and music on DVDs and CDs -- most recently squeezing customers accused of copyright infringement in court. Technology is starting to offer some relief, though. |
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
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 26, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Stepping Up Your Savings Some CDs come with bells and whistles; be sure you understand how they work. |
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. |
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. |
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 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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
