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Universal's Open MP3s Will Be Watermarked
The DRM-free songs Universal will sell as part of its recently-announced plan will contain a watermark that can be used to track the files down on peer-to-peer networks. When asked whether Univeral's MP3s would be embedded with unique identifiers, a spokesperson for the company said that the files will contain a watermark ... (12/08) ReadYou may also like
Musician Jay's music is given life after his death
WalesOnline | 30/06/08 
A YOUNG musician is to release an album from beyond the grave.
Singer-songwriter Matthew Jay, who drew comparisons with folk legend Nick Drake, died ... More
Average teenager's iPod has 800 illegal music tracks
Timesonline | 16/06/08
Teenagers and students have an average of more than 800 illegally copied songs each on their digital music players, the largest academic survey of young ... More
The next big Ting?
Boston.com | 16/06/08
The British dance-pop duo the Ting Tings are having the kind of year most musicians dream about: hit singles in the UK, a buzzed-about showcase at South ... More
Death of the folk song
Nationmedia.com | 16/06/08
THE TURKANA CULTURAL FESTIval, organised by the German Embassy, debuted recently to showcase the promise of a region that lacks the advantage of numbers ... More
Day the (theme) music died?
Winnipeg Sun | 07/06/08
The CBC is set to launch a song-writing contest open to all Canadians in hopes of finding a new theme song for Hockey Night In Canada, the head of CBC ... More
Virgin warns illegal internet music downloaders
Telegraph | 06/06/08
Teenagers building vast music collections by downloading songs illegally from the internet should beware. Their access to free music faces being cut off ... More
Idol Dominates Charts: Is This The Day The Music Died?
Hypebot | 30/05/08
No offense to Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper or Don McLean, but I think we may be witnessing the actual day the music died and this time I can even name the ... More
Let's face the music
The Guardian | 28/05/08
It's worth entering the Eurovision song contest, and indeed worth losing, just to hear Terry Wogan attempt to have a huff about partiality on his way ... More
New MP3 Revolutionizes Way You Listen to Music
The Korea Times | 23/05/08
If you are a serious guitar-master wannabe and you want to focus on the tune of Brian May's guitar and don't want to hear Freddie Mercury's voice and ... More
Rifflet, Like Twitter For Music
Gizmodo | 18/05/08
I like to believe that all of us have rock star alter egos. For most of us, these inner rock beasts sleep latently, awaiting the proper heartbreak or drug ... More
Enigmatic appeal
The Star | 11/05/08
I HAVE often railed at the fact that music has become more about the visuals than the song itself. Yet, in hypocritical fashion, I'm going to tell you ... More
Cops on song, criminals face the music
Times of India | 11/05/08
Tirhut range DIG Arvind Pandey does not find fighting crime and music contradictory. "A recent report in America suggests that music makes police officers ... More
When DRM detonates your music collection
Timesonline | 11/05/08
Imagine if you had a bedroom full of CDs and decided to buy a new player one day, only to discover that none of your albums would play on the new system. ... More
How much should music cost?
Los Angeles Times | 06/05/08
hree interesting developments today on the issue of music pricing and price elasticity, a subject close to my heart. While one label starts flirting with ... More
Dolly Parton and Lessons on Bad Branding
Wall Street Journal | 04/05/08
There is nothing wrong with the product. But boy, the branding bites.
That's what I thought last night at Radio City Music Hall as I watched one of ... More
Guitar Hero Band Releases First Full Album
Wired News | 02/05/08 
Plastic ax-wielding players of Guitar Hero II surely remember the dub/metal hybrid "Elephant Bones" by a band called That Handsome Devil. The song managed ... Read
Mexican music remains dominant Latin genre in U.S.
Reuters | 23/06/08
More than any other genre in Latin music, regional Mexican has been buffeted by market conditions both broad and specific.
The genre has been affected ... More
Uni Blaze Burns Musical History
Deadline Hollywood | 02/06/08
It looks like more was damaged or destroyed in today's Universal Studios fire than anyone previously thought. I've learned that Universal Music, which ... More
The Cistercian monks being groomed for music stardom
Timesonline | 18/05/08
Within minutes of arriving at the monastery in the Vienna Forest, I see a clutch of men wearing lederhosen, while an oompah band tunes up for the May Day ... More
The Pirates Can't Be Stopped
Portfolio | 15/01/08
This teenager hacked into the outfit charged with protecting companies like Sony, Universal, and Activision from online piracy—the most daring exploit ... Read
Imeem music service doesn't quite rock
News.com | 31/10/07
Yesterday, the New York Times ran an article about Imeem, pegged to the news that this fledgling site has signed a third major label, EMI, leaving only ... Read
Digital sales boost Universal Music
The Guardian | 25/07/07
Universal, the world's biggest music group, today flagged up strong UK sales and rapid growth in downloads despite a tough market for recorded music. ... Read
Universal Music CEO Doug Morris Speaks, Recording Industry in Even Deeper Shit Than We Thought
New York Magazine | 27/11/07
In the December issue of Wired, Seth Mnookin sits down with Universal Music Group CEO/supervillain Doug Morris for a pretty excellent profile (which is, ... Read
Nine Inch Nails tells fans to steal music
VNUnet | 20/09/07
The lead singer of Nine Inch Nails has urged fans of the band to steal its music as a protest against the high price charged by record companies. Trent ... Read
Nokia and Universal's Proposed Music Tax
The New York Times | 05/12/07
It's good to highlight inventions that, while flawed, show where things may be headed. One worth watching is the “Comes With Music” program just announced ... Read
Deutsche Grammophon Launches Classical Download Site
Billboard | 27/11/07
Classical music giant Deutsche Grammophon will make the bulk of its catalog available online from tomorrow when it relaunches its Website and presses the ... Read
How to thwart the RIAA
p2pnet.net | 13/09/07
Ray Beckerman has, from a standing start, become a veteran at defending RIAA victims. Now he has a thought he wants to share with all other American lawyers ... Read
Universal Music names Euro team
Variety | 04/09/07
Universal Music Publishing Group has announced its new senior executive team to lead its European operations. The company has been forced to reorganize ... Read
Sanctuary's UK music arm to close
BBC | 05/09/07
The decision was made by the firm's new owner Universal, which bought Sanctuary last month for £44.5m. The closing business is home to artists including ... Read
Imeem announces deal with Universal
CNET | 10/12/07
The music-centered social network, which focuses on ad-supported streaming music and video that its members can arrange into "playlists" on their profiles, ... Read
Universal Music Group Nixes Nine Inch Nails Remix Site
Wired News | 20/11/07
A few years ago, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails persuaded his label, Universal Music Group, to let him post master recordings on his website for fans ... Read
A million-dollar reason to be a rock star in China
Xinhuanet | 25/12/07
Chinese pop and rock singers, bands and composers will have a chance to compete with peers from other Asian countries for awards worth more than 1 million ... Read
I refuse to die to this music!
The Independent | 15/04/08
I was saddened to hear of the death the other day of the colourful Green Party (and former Liberal) peer Lord Beaumont of Whitley. Tim Beaumont was a tireless ... Read
Music industry reaction to Radiohead album
Timesonline | 10/10/07
The music industry woke to a potential revolution today with the first downloads of Radiohead's In Rainbows album being eagerly copied to MP3 players. ... Read
Sprint takes lead as 1st sponsor of file-share song
New York Post | 10/07/07
Sprint has signed on as the first company to underwrite a song to be distributed on file-sharing networks, agreeing to embed its logo on copies of tracks ... Read
Waxman puts squeeze on LimeWire
The Hollywood Reporter | 25/07/07
The chairman of the House's investigating committee Tuesday criticized the popular peer-to-peer program LimeWire for failing to take steps to ensure that ... Read
Age no bar as baby boomers rock the music industry
The Guardian | 28/11/06
Rod Stewart knows about it. So does Elton John. And Barry Manilow. Tony Bennett, to his joy and surprise, is just finding out about it. And next year Earth, ... Read
Wild Predictions for a Wired 2007
Wired News | 02/01/07
Here are some predictions for 2007: Google Stock Hits $1,000 per Share Internet Traffic Doubles ... to 5,000 petabits per day by the end of 2007. And 80 ... Read
NRJ Is First P2P Live Stream Powered By The RawFlow/Tiscali Nacamar Partnership
Music Industry News Network | 27/02/07
RawFlow and Tiscali Nacamar commences their partnership by deploying Peer-To-Peer streaming technology for Energy Sachsen, enabling them to offer listeners ... Read
Make Way For The Music Detectives
CBS News | 31/10/06
A few years ago the music industry was worried about Napster and the other peer-to-peer file-sharing services that allowed people to illegally post and ... Read
Kazaa settles with music publishers
International Herald Tribune | 03/11/06
The music publishing industry has reached a tentative deal with operators of the Kazaa file-sharing network over claims of copyright infringement. Publishers ... Read
CacheLogic And BitTorrent Announce Strategic Partnership
Music Industry News Network | 15/08/06
CacheLogic, the market leader in peer-to-peer (P2P) caching solutions for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and BitTorrent, developer of the world's leading ... Read
P2P Industry Networks For Legitimacy
Techweb | 06/10/06
Despite legal victories by record labels and trade associations, the growth of peer-to-peer networks continues unabated. BitTorrent and versions of eDonkey ... Read
Warner Music Suing MP3 Search Engine Seeqpod
Silicon Alley Insider | 23/01/08
Warner Music Group (WMG) is suing Seeqpod, the most popular of a new breed of music search engine/players with a new twist on the original Napster strategy ... Read
A Tipping Point For MP3s
Billboard | 30/11/07
The scope of a yearlong download promotion planned between Pepsi and Amazon, Billboard has learned, is among several developments forcing further consideration ... Read
What Happens When You Are Accidentally Given Music MP3s By Music Labels Or Services?
Tech-Dirt | 13/02/07
For a while it's been something of an open secret that music services like Pandora get around buffering problems by actually downloading MP3s to a temporary ... Read
Musicload to get rid of DRM
Heise.de | 20/03/07
Musicload is following the example set by Apple and doing away with digital copy protection. On the cover of the current issue of "forward," a periodic ... Read
RIAA Hitting Music Bloggers Right In The Bandwidth?
Idolator | 02/03/07
In the past few days, we've heard about a few incidents where the RIAA has asked hosting companies of bloggers to suspend accounts that post unsanctioned ... Read
The slow death of DRM
The Register | 09/02/07
The DRM walls are crumbling. Earlier this week, Steve Jobs called on the major record labels to allow online music sales unfettered by digital rights management ... Read