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July 9, 2007
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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.   |
The Motley Fool
July 10, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Downloads: Music to Labels' Ears The music industry's complaints about dire downloading doom are largely unfounded. |
Home Theater
August 17, 2007 |
Sympathy for the Devil: 10 Questions for the RIAA Cary Sherman, President of the Recording Industry Association of America answers questions about peer-to-peer file sharing and more. |
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 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... |
BusinessWeek
July 1, 2010
Grover & Satariano |
The Fall of Music Downloads Music streaming services are taking their toll as downloads to iPods, computers, and other devices plunge. |
PC Magazine
November 2, 2004
Emile Menasche |
Your Music The emergence of legal download services, dedicated network audio receivers and obscenely inexpensive hard drives have made a computer the next must-have component for your home entertainment system. |
The Motley Fool
October 3, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Music's Mixed Messages Digital downloading of music -- the legal way -- continues to gain momentum. The rapidly growing market for digital music underlines why so many companies are eyeing Apple's success and hoping to get their piece of the market. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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... |
The Motley Fool
March 26, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple's 30% Mistake Record labels say some iTunes tracks will cost $1.29 next month. |
InternetNews
December 9, 2003
Robyn Greenspan |
Paid Music Downloading, MP3 Player Sales Double Research shows that there is a growing willingness to pay for tunes, and music fans are buying devices to store and play their downloaded files. |
Home Theater
August 6, 2007 |
Illegal P2P Rampant in U.K. Despite the fact that U.K. residents are among the world's steadiest CD buyers, apparently they're also among the world's most avid illegal downloaders. |
| 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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
June 18, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon Catches a Coldplay Marking down Coldplay is Amazon's trap for digital-music lovers. |
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. |
PC World
January 1, 2003
Michael Gowan |
Make the Most of Your MP3 Player Follow our tips for easy ripping and keeping your player in shape. Plus: We point you to the best music sites. |
BusinessWeek
April 25, 2005
Tom Lowry |
Ringtones: Music To Music Moguls' Ears Ringtones are driving most of the mobile-music business today. |
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. |
Home Theater
July 29, 2009
Mark Fleischmann |
Who Will Define the Digital Album? A struggle has broken out over what kind of longform digital music album will prevail in the age of downloads. |
The Motley Fool
December 6, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Buy, and Buy Again As digital downloading grows ever more popular, perhaps music distribution -- particularly the physical CD model -- will have to evolve into a niche where there is an emphasis on collectibles rather than commodity. |
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
July 26, 2010
Jordan DiPietro |
Death by a Thousand Cuts The music industry is slowly dying. More and more people are using streaming sites like Pandora, which means there will be fewer digital downloads. |
The Motley Fool
June 8, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Digital Music's Dirty Little Secret When will the labels embrace the inevitable? Digital music, in both legal and illegal forms, has stimulated consumers' music-listening appetites. Digital music means fewer CDs to press, package, and ship out to retailers. |
Home Theater
December 9, 2008 |
At Major Label, Downloads Beat CDs Legit download music sales have passed a notable milestone at Warner's historic Atlantic Records. The label now sells more downloads than CDs. This is believed to be a major-label first. |
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
September 2, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Wal-Mart Anchors Windows Media Mall Microsoft and Wal-Mart went live with music downloading services within the new version of Windows Media Player. |
The Motley Fool
October 21, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Will Google Rock? The search giant wants to be heard in the digital music realm, according to TechCrunch. Multiple sources are telling the tech blog that the launch of Google Audio is imminent. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
April 2, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple Strikes a Chord Apple and EMI are hooking up to promote unlocked digital downloads. Is EMI an unlikely first mover among its major-label brethren? Investors, take note. |
Home Theater
July 30, 2008 |
Yahoo Music DRM Keys Go Poof Yahoo Music Store will close on September 30, 2008, taking its digital rights management encryption keys with it. This is just another depressing reminder of all the wasted time and energy put into schemes designed to create roadblocks for legal users. |
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. |
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? |
PC Magazine
November 14, 2007
Dan Costa |
The Music Wants to Be Free More musicians are using the Net to cut the record labels out of the loop. It isn't just unknown bands any-more, but the megastars the labels depend on. And there isn't a damn thing the industry can do about it. |
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
November 28, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Wal-Mart's Speeding Bullet The chain takes yet another shot at mattering in cyberspace by offering digital downloading features along with Time Warner's Superman Returns DVD. |
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. |
PC World
November 2000
Scott Spanbauer |
That's (Digital) Entertainment! Digital movies, books, and music are coming direct to your home by way of your PC. Soon, always-on entertainment will be just a mouse-click away... |
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. |
Wired
September 2006
Eric Steuer |
The Infinite Album Release a traditional 13-track cd? No thanks, says Beck. Instead, he serves up a collection of songs, remixes, and videos that fans can piece together any way they want. |
Reason
January 2004
Nick Gillespie |
Welcome Back, Napster There's a special reason to be happy that Napster, the notorious outlaw file-sharing system that took a long, court-ordered hiatus, has returned as a major-label-backed enterprise offering single-track downloads for 99 cents. It's the freedom not to pay for songs you don't want. |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2007
Steven Mallas |
Quick Take: Fight the Pirates! Media companies must fight piracy, for shareholders' benefit. The effects of piracy are emphatically detrimental to the long-term value of a music portfolio. Just look at the effect file-sharing has had on brick-and-mortar record stores. |
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
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. |
