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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 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... |
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... |
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. |
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. |
Reason October 2000 Jesse Walker |
Music for Nothing Why Napster isn't the end of the world. Or even the music industry... |
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. |
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. |
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 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. |
Salon.com May 17, 2002 Janelle Brown |
Napster's wake The company that launched a thousand rips may be dead, but the movement it launched continues to thrive -- and to make a mockery of the music industry's pathetic online offerings. |
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... |
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 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. |
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 1, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Warner's Digital Groove Digital gains help soften the weakness at Warner Music Group. Investors, take note. |
AskMen.com Steve Richer |
How To: Land A Record Deal But the key to making this happen is landing a record contract. So now that you've learned to sing and formed a band, it's time for you to get the exposure you deserve. |
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? |
The Motley Fool June 19, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
The RIAA's Win Is Yet Another Loss Another courtroom "victory" makes the music suits even more like Kobe Bryant. |
Salon.com June 14, 2000 Eric Boehlert |
Mega record labels: We want our MP3 MP3.com basks in a landmark agreement with the majors. But how will the audio company turn the deals into profits? |
The Motley Fool July 20, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
When Aging Music Companies Merge How will the music recording industry reinvigorate itself? |
New Architect March 2002 Margaret Berry |
What I Want Developing user-friendly DRM... |
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. |
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 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. |
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... |
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... |
InternetNews January 28, 2008 |
Music Industry Explores New Approach to Online Downloads Labels may be in talks with legal music distribution firm Qtrax. |
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. |
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 February 21, 2001 Janelle Brown |
Napster: Let's make a deal! Is the music-trading service increasingly desperate, or crazy like a fox? |
Wired September 2006 Jeff Howe |
No Suit Required Terry McBride has a maverick approach to music management: Take care of the fans and the bands, and the business will take care of itself. |
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 June 6, 2001 Charles C. Mann |
Napster's long haul The legally hounded music-sharing service has struck a deal with the record labels, but the "celestial jukebox" is still a long way off... |
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. |
The Motley Fool September 4, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Can Apple Save the Music Industry, Again? Interactive digital albums may give new hope to the dying record industry. |
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 February 15, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
DRM May Die? Yahoo! Will online music's digital rights management go the way of the dodo? |
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. |
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 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 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. |
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. |
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. |
Inc. March 1, 2010 Adam Bluestein |
Coping With Fury at a Price Hike When eMusic raised prices, customers grumbled and threatened to leave. Was it too late to go back? |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Salon.com June 14, 2000 Courtney Love |
Courtney Love does the math The controversial singer takes on record label profits, Napster and "sucka VCs." |
The Motley Fool December 15, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
CBS Records Is Back, Jack The media giant gets back in touch with its musical roots. The label's focus will be digital distribution through its own CBSRecords.com site, as well as through Apple's iTunes. |