Source: aarontrubic.com
Source: The Times
Music lovers are being forced to pay high prices for downloading songs from the internet by record companies keen to protect sales of conventional CDs, according to industry experts.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
The UK music industry has said it will turn a blind eye to people copying music from cds to pc's or mp3 players as long as it is for personal use.
They instead will be targeting thos or are duplicating songs for other people.
They have also called on apple to openup its ITunes …
What's it like? How does it feel?
Source: pcmag.com
John C. Dvorak sounds off about Digital Rights management, the poor business acumen of the industry and how we can respond -- support indie music, go to plays not movies... etc.
Source: eff.org
As the recording industry's doom and gloom rhetoric continues in the face of ever increasing file sharing, the RIAA's own statistics tell a much different story.
No more ATRAC, no more Cassette, no Records, not even CDs, just pure digital information.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) is taking legal action against nearly 2,000 song-swappers in 10 countries. The new courts cases are aimed at uploaders, the people who make music available on file sharing networks.
My hat's off to Kirsty Hawkshaw for helping publicize the not-for-profit organization Save The Music Fan, founded by Nettwerk's CEO, Terry McBride. And Kudos to Kirsty for publicly taking her own stand against the RIAA lawsuits.
Source: arts.guardian.co.uk
Gnarls Barkley does not exist. Nor does his first CD single. Yet tomorrow he is expected to make chart history by becoming the first act to get to number one on the basis of music downloads.
Source: thinksecret.com
The biggest hurdle to overcome remains the competing desires between the movie industry and Apple over which model an online movie store should adopt, said the source, who has been involved in talks with Apple directly and indirectly and spoke on the condition of anonymity. Mr.
Source: iht.com
From the International Herald Tribune:
French consumers are not entitled to make personal copies of DVDs, even if they do not distribute them, France's highest court said Wednesday in a victory for film companies like Vivendi Universal.
The issue of the legality of on-line file-sharing and digital distribution of music (and movies, etc) has been bandied about back and forth on both the internet at large and newsvine ad nauseum.
Source: Slashdot
Source: pocket-lint.co.uk
Sales of music via the Internet and mobile phones spread like wildfire across the world in 2005 generating sales of US$1.1 billion for record companies - up from US$380 million the previous year according to findings released by the International Federation of the Phonographic Ind
Source: MSNBC.com
Patricia Santangelo, a mother to her children, a hero to many internet users, is taking on the music industry in the fact that she never once downloaded a single song to her computer. To this date she is battling the music industry, alone, with the support of millions of internet users in the case that could decide the fate of the RIAA's campaign against the people.
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