Radio stations appeal Internet royalty decision
WHASINGTON (Broadcasting Network) - Radio stations have asked a federal appeals court to rule that they do not have to pay musicians and recording companies when they play music on the Internet because they do not pay royalties for regular, over-the-air broadcasts. In a motion filed late Monday, a group ...
| 'Stop free music' pleads record industry...
BRUSSELS (CNET) - The record industry pleaded Wednesday with consumers to stop downloading and recording music for free because piracy was strangling the multi-billion-dollar industry. Profits have plummeted, especially in Europe. CD sales in Germany last year were 185 million whereas the number of ...
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Record industry 'spoofs' net pirates
NEW YORK (CNET) - The US record industry is employing new methods to counteract the growing phenomenon of unauthorised music files. Many large record labels have resorted to what is known as "spoofing"- hiring companies to distribute "decoy" music files that are empty or do not work, to make the work ...
| Sony, Universal music units to offer cheaper downloads
LOS ANGELES (CNet) - Record company giants Sony Music and Universal Music Wednesday said they planned to soon offer cheaper and easier ways to download music from the Web in the industry's latest effort to stem online piracy. "Times have changed, so the offerings have changed," said Larry Kenswil, ...
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Music piracy rises worldwide
NEW YORK (IFPI) - Global sales of pirated music compact discs rose almost 50% to an all-time high of 950 million units in 2001, according to a report. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) report showed illegal sales of recordable CDs tripled last year to 450 million units. ...
| Finally, they did it!: Europeans Hackers Crack Copy Protection CDs
BERLIN, Germany (Linux News) - Some music fans are trying to fake out CD copy protection technology with the stroke of a felt-tip pen. The tactic is being used in Europe, where Sony is trying out a copy protection method and that model won't be coming to America (the company says). The crack in the ...
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Music industry sues US song-swapping site
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - In its latest attempt to halt music piracy, a contingency of music industry groups, including the labels, songwriters and music publishers, filed a lawsuit against U.S. file-sharing Internet service Audiogalaxy .com. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a ...
| Napster gets a new lease on life....
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Napster gets a new lease on life as Bertlesmann AG has agreed to contribute $8 million toward the payment of Napster's creditors, it was announced late Friday (May 17). The move helped to bring back Napster founder Shawn Fanning and CEO Konrad Hilbers, who both resigned last ...
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The Digital Beat: The myth of the MP3 virus
NEW YORK (Rolling Stone) - I've been getting a lot of emails lately from people concerned about a supposed hole in the popular Winamp software that could let a dastardly virus sneak through. Don't believe the hype. Here's what happened: An earlier version of Winamp (2.75) was found to have a bug that, ...
| Buh Bye Napster... Yet Again
NEW YORK (MP3-News) - Remember Napster, well neither do we, but in the interest of following the story through, CEO Konrad Hilbers has resigned from Napster and they may be facing bankruptcy. Blah, blah, blah. A death rattle is now playing on Napster, the long embattled file-trading service. On a tumultuous ...
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Recording industry collects $1 million fine
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Big Brother is listening! That's the message the recording industry hoped to send Tuesday by announcing it had collected $1 million from a company that let employees swap songs on an internal server. Arizona-based Integrated Information Systems Inc., which ran a dedicated ...
| Streamcast sings praises of indie artists, new tech
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Facing a fusillade of legal attacks from an irate entertainment industry, free file-sharing Netco Streamcast Networks -- like Napster before it -- is seeking legitimacy by reaching out to independent artists with technology to help them distribute their music themselves. Franklin, ...
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Trouble ahead for music industry
LONDON, UK (Radio 1) - The UK music industry has been told it must rethink the way it tackles digital music or face long-term decline. If record companies do not make their own digital music services more attractive to fans, they could continue to lose out to music piracy over the internet, a report ...
| Morpheus users move to Gnutella Web music network
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Thousands of Internet users turned to the little-known Gnutella network over the weekend to download free music and movies, throwing up another possible roadblock for media companies fighting unauthorized downloads of copyrighted material. Makers of the popular Morpheus file-sharing ...
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Internet Radio Must Pay Up
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - After seven months of negotiations, a U.S. government panel put forth the recommendation last week that online radio broadcasters pay royalties to record companies to be split evenly with the artists when their songs are played over the net. Online radio stations could end ...
| Online music service Pressplay launches
NEW YORK (AP) - A new online music venture, Pressplay, has made its internet debut - gambling that millions of users will be willing to pay for music they used to get free from outfits like Napster. Pressplay is a joint venture by Vivendi Universal, Sony and EMI. It allows users to listen to tracks, ...
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MusicNet to launch on RealNetworks' Tuesday
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Three of the world's major record labels and software provider RealNetworks Inc. Tuesday will launch MusicNet, an online subscription venture, the biggest effort by the music industry to distribute music profitably over the Internet. The service will launch on RealNetworks' new ...
| Madonna added to download service
NEW YORK (AP) - Songs by Madonna, Prince and REM are among those that will be available through one of the biggest legitimate internet download services to date. The service, which will launch in mid-December, will give music fans access to a certain number of songs for a limited period in return for ...
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Listen.com signs key licensing pact with publishers
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - And the beat goes on in the online music sector as Listen.com Wednesday become the third Web upstart in about a week to sign a key licensing deal by reaching a pact with music publishers for songs on the Rhapsody music subscription service it plans to launch on Dec. 3. Under ...
| Musicians win web royalties fight
LONDON, UK (BBC) - Musicians and artists will now be paid directly for broadcasts of their work in the US on cable, satellite and the internet - rather than the cash going to their recording companies. A deal was struck between between representatives of the musicians and the recording companies. Until ...
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