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T.H.E. Journal
October 2004 |
Legal Downloading Services Offered to College Students Companies are responding to college students' demands for music and media downloads by providing services for legal downloads at a minimal charge.   |
Home Theater
April 14, 2008 |
Music Copying Rampant in Britain Copying, not downloading, is the real key to declining music-industry revenues, according to a survey of British young people commissioned by British Music Rights. |
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. |
PC World
August 2005
Eric Dahl |
Yahoo Does Portable Music Downloads Yahoo Music Unlimited promises a million songs for about half the cost of competing services. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2005 |
Napster, CAN Offer Higher Ed Cheap, Legal Downloading Services Continuing the record industry's push to offer safe and legal downloading services to students, the Campus Action Network (CAN) and Napster have teamed up to offer cheap and safe downloads to college students nationwide. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2007
Tekla S. Perry |
Imagine There's No DRM... I Wonder if You Can Even rock stars rejoice when a major record company takes the locks off digital music. |
Home Theater
August 10, 2007
Mark Fleischmann |
Universal to Test No-DRM Downloads Universal Music Group, the world's largest music label, takes a decisive step away from Digital Rights Managed music, and moves closer to a more open DRM-free download retail environment. |
PC Magazine
May 28, 2009
Jamie Lendino |
Napster (Spring 2009) Napster's latest redesign is its best one yet, with a compelling unlimited music streaming offer for just $5 per month. |
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. |
InternetNews
January 11, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Sony BMG Opens DRM-Free Content to Amazon Sony BMG's move gives Amazon a new boost in its quest to upend iTunes, but where do the record labels' priorities' really lie? |
The Motley Fool
February 11, 2005
Kelvin Taylor |
Napster Nips at iTunes' Heels The music download service plans to battle Apple with an unlimited-tune subscription deal. |
InternetNews
August 1, 2002 |
Pressplay Goes Unlimited, Rhapsody Does DirecTV Bowing to consumer pressure, the Sony/Universal-backed music service adds permanent downloads, unlimited listening and CD-burning capabilities. Rival Listen.com clinches a deal with DirecTV Broadband. |
PC World
May 2005
Eric Dahl |
Napster Adds Mobile Music Subscriptions For $15 a month, you can download all the songs you want. You just won't be able to play them where ever you want. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
August 10, 2007
Nicholas Carlson |
Best Buy, Universal Join DRM-Free Jam Universal Music Group will make some of its music available without digital rights management software. |
| 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. |
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 9, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Music Lovers Go Legit Legal music downloading hits a new high over the 2005 holidays. It goes without saying that Apple's iTunes is the elephant in this particular room. |
The Motley Fool
August 21, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple's Unlimited Appeal Apple's iTunes may be ready to roll out a subscription model. |
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. |
PC Magazine
November 29, 2006
Rick Broida |
Expert View: Apple: Get With The Program There's no wasted space on my mp3 player. |
The Motley Fool
May 19, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Will Best Buy Kill Apple, Microsoft, and Sirius XM? Napster's pricing plan is going to turn heads. And they might roll. |
The Motley Fool
May 23, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Napster for Nothing Napster produces another quarter of positive cash flow. |
Home Theater
August 16, 2007 |
DRM Kills Google Video Downloads In what surely must be the worst-case scenario for digital rights management, Google has informed purchasers of its video downloads that they will no longer play. |
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. |
PC Magazine
August 16, 2006
Robert Lemos |
DRM: The Untold Story For some, DRM stands for Down-Right Maddening. Here's why you should think twice about downloading DRM-protected files. |
PC World
December 1, 2007
Cathy Lu |
Napster, Amazon MP3: Digital Music Done Differently Napster's music-subscription service has a great playlist function; Amazon's MP3 store is easy to navigate and very affordable. |
Home Theater
May 26, 2009 |
$5 Napster Subscription Is Bargain Napster may soon become the world's cheapest legitimate music subscription service, with a new plan that asks consumers for a mere $5/month for five free tracks and a whole lot of streaming. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
January 15, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Watch Your Back, Mr. Mac PepsiCo will be giving away 1 billion MP3 downloads through Amazon.com. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon.com Cranks Up the Music Amazon, the country's leading online retailer, will launch its eagerly anticipated MP3 store in three weeks. The company will be selling songs in the MP3 format, free of digital rights management. Will it take a bite out of Apple? |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Warner Warms to Amazon Warner Music Group becomes the latest big studio to sell DRM-free tunes through Amazon.com. |
The Motley Fool
April 5, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Crazy for Chart-Topping Downloads Downloads propel a pop tune to the top of the British charts. As digital music reaches its own fever pitch, it's worth remembering infrastructure lurkers like Openwave. Their value is only beginning to be fully realized. |
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. |
Home Theater
September 30, 2008 |
Wal-Mart DRM Downloads Are Toast Wal-Mart has become the latest online music retailer to shut down the encryption-key servers for its DRM-encrusted downloads. |
The Motley Fool
December 17, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
iTunes, iTaxed? Should states charge tax on digital downloads? |
New Architect
March 2002
Margaret Berry |
What I Want Developing user-friendly DRM... |
InternetNews
August 18, 2009 |
Apple Accounts for 25% of All Music Sales NPD Group finds iTunes gaining ground and looks for digital sales to pull close to even with CDs by end of 2010. |
PC Magazine
February 25, 2009
Jamie Lendino |
Amazon MP3 (Winter 2009) Amazon's online music sells unrestricted music that's high quality, compatible with almost any player, and often cheaper than what it would cost on iTunes... iLike... Lala... |
The Motley Fool
September 2, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Apple Plants Dividend Seed The computer maker will pay affiliates that help sell music downloads. It would be easy (and understandable) for investors to brush off the iTunes announcement as just the latest salvo in an overhyped digital music war. But there's more to it than that. |
The Motley Fool
March 11, 2010
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Throw This Stock Away These aren't merry days for the prerecorded music industry. Is it time to get rid of your Warner Music Group stock and replace it with something else? |
InternetNews
January 28, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Amazon Taking Its MP3 Store Global Beginning later this year, Amazon plans to roll out international versions of its DRM-free music store. |
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
March 11, 2005
Kelvin Taylor |
Napster: Can iTunes Do This? A subscription service with unlimited downloads could eat away at Apple's domination. |
The Motley Fool
May 17, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Rock On, Amazon Amazon has made it official, announcing that it will launch a digital music service later this year. Unlike most existing storefronts that sell format-protected tunes, Amazon's tracks will be pure MP3 files. |
The Motley Fool
September 26, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon 2, Apple 0 Amazon's new MP3 store aims for Apple's jugular. Anyone who believes that Apple will maintain its gargantuan share of the digital-music world in a year or two has been resting on the mute button for too long. |
The Motley Fool
May 26, 2004
Seth Jayson |
Mixed Messages on Music Downloads There's conflicting evidence on music downloads. Is anyone asking the right questions? |
