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A lack of security controls allowed hackers to "wipe" the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) website on Sunday. The existence of an SQL injection attack on the RIAA's site came to light via social network news site Reddit. Soon after hackers were making merry, turning the site into a blank slate, among other things. (21/01)
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Jake Shimabukuro travels great distances from his childhood home in Honolulu, but he packs light. "I don't have a lot to carry," he says, while on the ...
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On a short notice a large number of music and heritage lovers throng Sethi House that evening. They were as thrilled as they have found a very precious ...
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How To Do Business In China, China CEO, The New Chinese Consumer... my shelves here in Beijing are stacked full of such books, all trying to throw some ...
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Seemingly spurred on by the song's lyrics (“I am a moth who wants to share your light / I'm an insect Trying to get out of the dark”), the film features ...
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Once upon a time, in the pre-digital analog world of yesterday, people bought albums at brick-and-mortar establishments known as "record stores" and ...
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Little-known Texas MP3 Technologies is taking on Apple, Samsung Electronics Co and Sandisk with a patent-infringement lawsuit. The suit, which came to ...
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Citizens For A Better America, a band that was created for the sole purpose to ridicule Paris Hilton, has hit it big with their first single "Go Away ...
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Every few years you get one of those irresistible, guilty pleasure Latin pop songs that seem to get the whole country wiggling in a giddy inter-cultural ...
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European Union culture ministers have backed plans to transform Europe's massive film and broadcast archives into digital form and make them available ...
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Debate is raging on internet message boards over whether Madonna's "rocking" Live Earth performance owed more to technical wizadry than musical talent.
Madonna ...
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Since the record industry first noticed that some of the kids were using the internet in the mid-90s, it's flopped from one puddle to the next. Despite ...
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Pre-twentieth century music all exists in the public domain, but that doesn't mean it's easy to get access either to recordings or sheet music. Want ...
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CreateSpace, a subsidiary of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), on Monday expanded its print-on-demand CD publishing service in an effort to put an end to the concept ...
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In the small San Diego County offices of French multimedia giant Thomson, employees crank up Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon," a recording laden ...
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Forget about Warner Music Group's plummeting stock price, or the shrinking retail floor space. Forget about EMI's announcement this week that it's cutting ...
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In a move designed to get major music trade organizations to reorganize, EMI has made the first step to exit the British trade group IFPI. Top operating ...
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In a short news post on the Nine Inch Nails website, Trent Reznor yesterday announced that his contract with Interscope has been fulfilled and he is now ...
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La Societe Des Producteurs De Phonogrammes En France (SPPF), which represents recording labels in France, is suing three P2P software vendors, Shareaza, ...
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The woman who lost the nation's first Recording Industry Association of America music pirating trial said Monday she is appealing the $222,000 verdict ...
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Warner Music Group Corp. may fall following a report that Madonna will leave the company and sign a recording and performance contract with Live Nation ...
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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, ...
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The Fader Label, the recording branch of The Fader, today announced the release of the new recording by esteemed poet, artist and musician Saul Williams: ...
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