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Wired February 2003 Matt Bai |
Hating Hilary Napster slayer. Corporate thug. Industry shill. Hilary Rosen has heard it all as the reviled frontwoman for the music biz. Sure, she knows file-sharing is the future. She's just fighting to give the dinosaurs one last gasp. |
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 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. |
Macworld August 2000 Christopher Breen |
Steal This Song Will Napster Change The Way we Buy--or--Don't Buy Music Forever? |
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 June 14, 2000 Courtney Love |
Courtney Love does the math The controversial singer takes on record label profits, Napster and "sucka VCs." |
Wired November 2003 |
Rants & Raves Ten hours, eight hands, and 11,952 lead crystals made the September cover sparkle. Scores of letters riffed on the evils of De Beers, the joys of our model, and the magic of what was holding up all those rocks... etc. |
Wired August 2003 |
Rants & Raves Old Ideas... Mapping New Territory... The Star-Spangled Banner Yet Waves... Rebuilding New York... You're in My Space... etc. |
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 March 2003 |
Rants & Raves January's most popular topics were Google and gigaplanes. The biggest hit by far was Josh McHugh's "Google vs. Evil," reporting the slow erosion of the search company's moral purity. Fans and pans were evenly divided. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Wired January 2003 |
Rants & Raves Join the Anti-Nuke Network... Let's Get Chemical... "And Is This Your Full-Time Job?"... etc. |
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... |
Wired March 2004 |
Rants & Raves 101 Ways to Save the Internet... Saving Lives... The Howard Dean Machine...etc. |
Salon.com June 10, 2002 Dan Levine |
Not the real Slim Shady Are the fake MP3s popping up on file-sharing networks part of the recording industry's war on piracy, or just the latest in music marketing? |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Reason October 2000 Jesse Walker |
Music for Nothing Why Napster isn't the end of the world. Or even the music industry... |
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. |
Wired November 2002 |
Rants & Raves Out of Sight... Slide Rules Rule!... When DIY Meets DMV... etc. |
Wired October 2002 |
Rants & Raves Knock This Chip Off My Shoulder... The Decline and Fall of Decline and Fall... Gilded Age... Get With the Program... etc. |
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? |
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. |
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 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 December 2002 |
Rants & Raves Getting Unwired... A Free Lesson in Wi-Finomics... One Small Step for Bots... Shooting Blanks... etc. |
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... |
Wired August 2002 |
Rants & Raves I'm With the Brand... Soul of a Sound Machine... Webcasters, don't throw in the towel just yet... Being Human... etc. |
Wired November 2004 Thomas Goetz |
Sample the Future Rip, mix, burn. Swap till you drop. The music cops can't do a thing - it's 100 percent legal, licensed by the bands. The Wired CD, copyrighted for the 21st century. |
Wired |
Rants + Raves Feedback on The Wired CD... Rosen-Colored Glasses... The New Coke... The Unreal Thing... Brand on the Run... Where's the Al Gore-ithm?... Fight for Your Right to TiVo... |
The Motley Fool June 4, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Jack Bauer's Gonna Get You, Pirate Punk Fox goes after a 24 pirate, split screen and all. Few will be able to make a legal argument in favor of the renegade uploads. So is this a time for fisticuffs or for diplomacy? Fox is in a desirable position. |
Wired May 2003 |
Rants & Raves Speed Freaks... All That Drag... Along for the Ride... etc. |
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. |
Wired October 2003 |
Rants & Raves "Hooey!"... "How to Sell Your Body for $46 Million"... Eight is Not Enough... My Other Car Is an X-Ray... etc. |
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. |
Wired February 2004 |
Rants & Raves "Killjoy!"... Not So Joyful... Joyless, Part Too... Sci-Fi Readers Dream of Better Adaptations... etc. |
The Motley Fool October 10, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Good Riddance, Major Labels Last week, Radiohead announced that it's going solo and releasing its next album digitally, without the helping hand of a major label. Nine Inch Nails followed suit this week. Oasis and Jamiroquai may be next. |
Salon.com March 13, 2002 Eric Boehlert |
Record companies: Save us from ourselves! With payola up but profits down, labels are wondering if paying $100 million to middlemen "fixers" is still a swell business idea... |
Wired September 2002 |
Rants & Raves We asked for feedback on our list of sci-fi films... Amazing Stories... Plan Overboard... Keeping It Simple... etc. |
AskMen.com Greg Yates |
How To: Become A Recording Artist - Part II Advise on getting a record deal and becoming a professional recording artist. Learn about marketing, distribution, legal representation, management, and most importantly, record labels. |
PC Magazine November 11, 2003 Cade Metz |
Let the Music Play We review all the tools you need to satisfy your digital music urges. |
The Motley Fool July 11, 2011 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
New Life for Music? U.S. album sales rise for the first time since 2004, but don't start to party like it's 1999 just yet. |
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. |
CIO March 1, 2004 Julie Hanson |
Wall of No Sound - Reality Bytes The recording industry is trying to stop people from listening to, talking about and sharing music. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. |
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... |