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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.
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 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 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 20, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	When Aging Music Companies Merge How will the music recording industry reinvigorate itself?
The Motley Fool February 4, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Yahoo!'s Boo-hemian Rhapsody Yahoo! is finally in the process of shuttering its Yahoo! Music Unlimited service, sending its current subscriber base and any future leads to Rhapsody America.
Home Theater August 11, 2008	Sony BMG Is Just Sony Now Sony is buying Bertelsmann's 50 percent stake in the company, giving it total control of what will now become known as Sony Music Entertainment.
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.
The Motley Fool December 5, 2005 Alyce Lomax	Steaming Streaming Music RealNetworks continues its aggressive stance in the music biz with an Internet-based version of its Rhapsody subscription service that will allow people to use the service anywhere, even when they are not at their own computers.
The Motley Fool April 24, 2007 Alyce Lomax	Sing Along With Yahoo! A deal with Gracenote brings lyrics -- and possibly increased traffic -- to Yahoo! Music. Given the music industry's ongoing malaise and the long existence of the renegade lyric purveyors, it's pretty amazing that it's taken so long for this opportunity to emerge.
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 March 30, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Apple's Five-Finger Discount Albums are getting cheaper on iTunes if you bought a single.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	You've Got Napster Napster cozies up to AOL in a new music subscription deal.
The Motley Fool May 17, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Napster on the B-Side Napster is growing as it shrinks. The music subscription service posted respectable fiscal fourth-quarter results, as long as you know where to look.
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?
The Motley Fool September 1, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Warner Music's E-Buzz After its disappointing IPO earlier this year, Warner Music Group is finally starting to look at things differently. Warner's hopes to make music via an Internet-only label. The company can't afford to go about this experiment softly.
The Motley Fool February 20, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Warner Still Loves EMI The Warner Music Group and EMI merger chatter is alive again. Investors, take note.
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 December 1, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Warner's Digital Groove Digital gains help soften the weakness at Warner Music Group. Investors, take note.
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 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.
The Motley Fool September 27, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Warner's Rising Sun It is the dawning of a new day for Warner Music Group. The company kicked off its new e-label in a daring way. This could be a financial windfall for Warner.
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 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.
The Motley Fool December 16, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Throw This Stock Away Warner Music Group is part of an archaic industry that has been suffering in recent years. Is it time to get rid of this stock?
The Motley Fool March 2, 2004 Dave Marino-Nachison	Warner Music Prepares for Cuts A published report confirms suspicions that many music jobs are at risk.
The Motley Fool July 30, 2008 Alyce Lomax	Shy Away From Sony Amid a difficult consumer climate, the electronics behemoth has handed investors some nasty quarterly results and a bleak view for the year.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2007 Alyce Lomax	Sony Disconnects Sony decides to disconnect its Connect digital music service; customers were trapped using only Sony hardware and software to listen to their music, which doomed the program. The company now says it will support other, more open formats, such as MP3.
The Motley Fool May 15, 2006 Alyce Lomax	MTV Wants a Bite of Apple Should Apple fear MTV's new URGE music service?
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 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.
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.
The Motley Fool March 19, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	You Can't Stop the Music, Apple Apple is in talks with record labels to offer an unlimited iTunes music-streaming service.
The Motley Fool December 20, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Amazon Is Ready to Rock Amazon taps the vein of music appreciation with a stake in a music discovery site. Despite Amazon's girth in all things e-commerce, it will be a challenging venture.
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.
The Motley Fool May 23, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Napster for Nothing Napster produces another quarter of positive cash flow.
The Motley Fool February 9, 2007 Steven Mallas	Warner's Slow-Tempo Quarter You can't dance to Warner Music Group's latest quarter -- but does it offer any value to investors?
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 April 3, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Napster's Growth Spurt Napster keeps migrating users to its on demand music subscription service. Despite the heady additions, Napster is going to be in the red for some time. Analysts don't expect a profit out of Napster until fiscal 2009 at the earliest.
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The Motley Fool October 3, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Apple Won't Unplug iTunes Unchanged royalty rates keep the virtual doors of Apple's music store open.
InternetNews May 11, 2005 Tim Gray	Yahoo Gets Into The Groove Yahoo hopes to add to its greatest hits by offering Yahoo Music Unlimited, an online music subscription service at a bargain price.
The Motley Fool November 5, 2004 Dave Marino-Nachison	Wake-Up Time for Napster Investors appear enthusiastic about the prospect of a pure-play Napster.
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.
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Home Theater May 12, 2008	Sony Buys Metadata King Gracenote Sony has bought Indianapolis-based Gracenote for $260 million.
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.
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.