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The death of the CD is nigh as Linn bows out

Dave Parrack — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:43:06 +0000

Physical media such as CD and DVD is very slowly but surely being replaced by digital formats. Whether it’s streaming or downloads, physical is the [...]

Sony follows Apple right off the iTunes cliff

Dave Jeyes — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:55:16 +0000

Sony unveiled plans for a digital download store to sell music, videos and books just like Apple’s iTunes. What the company forgot to mention is that the digital download space is already too crowded.

The [...]

Record labels delay U.S. launch of Spotify

Sean P. Aune — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:45:02 +0000

The launch of popular music streaming service Spotify has already been delayed once in the U.S.A., and now it may be delayed even more due to the record labels not liking the business model.

Spotify is a music streaming service that has [...]

Spotify curbs music piracy – streaming is the future

Dave Parrack — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:34:03 +0000

Music piracy is a huge part of the Internet and, whether you think it’s a major problem as the record labels would have us believe or not, most countries [...]

Judge orders BlueBeat to halt sales of Beatles MP3s

Sean P. Aune — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:17:08 +0000

A judge has ordered BlueBeat to immediately halt sales of The Beatles MP3s on its site, but the company is coming back with a rather unique defense.

The saga of the BlueBeat Web site (previous stories

EMI suing BlueBeat while preparing MP3 release of The Beatles catalog

Sean P. Aune — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:50:55 +0000

The Beatles are finally releasing official digital files of all of their studio albums, while also suing a company for selling illegal ones.

From the “I can’t believe it took this long to happen!” files, EMI Records is [...]

Survey suggests filesharers buy more music than anyone else

Dave Parrack — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:38:14 +0000

Music piracy is evil and those who illegally download and share music with each other are the devil’s spawn. Right? Wrong. In fact, a new survey shows that those [...]

BlueBeat Web site offers up Beatles albums for download; lawyers drool

Sean P. Aune — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:53:01 +0000

Music download site BlueBeat is offering up a treat this Halloween weekend, but we suspect it will be getting a trick come Monday morning.

The tale of how The Beatles have not licensed their catalog for digital download [...]

iTunes update breaks Pre Sync and customers’ hearts

Dave Jeyes — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:01:28 +0000

The latest iTunes update again breaks the Palm Pre’s “unofficial” sync capability in a game of cat and mouse that can only serve to drive away paying iTunes customers.

After all, the handset business’s tiny margins aren’t likely to keep Apple in [...]

Google launches new Music Search service

Sean P. Aune — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:44:56 +0000

Google has officially launched a new music component to its search engine which should make it possible for you to find just about any song you want, even if you only know a few of the lyrics.

We reported just last [...]