Hells Bells! What are classic rockers AC/DC up to now?
Linkin Park canceled its Thursday night show in Washington, D.C., after the group's lead singer fell ill, the band said on its website.
Whitney Harper likes music and enjoyed sharing it with her teen-age friends. But that put her in deep legal trouble, and she has become the face of unresolved legal issue over so-called "innocent infringers."
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If you watched the Grammy Awards Sunday night, it would appear all is well in the recording industry. But at the end of last year, the music business was worth half of what it was ten years ago and the decline doesn't look like it will be slowing anytime soon.
A federal jury Thursday found a 32-year-old Minnesota woman guilty of illegally downloading music from the Internet and fined her $80,000 each -- a total of $1.9 million -- for 24 songs.
If mention of The Pirate Bay conjures up images of parrots, peg legs and planks, or geeky jargon like BitTorrent and jailbreak leaves you all at sea, this handy A-Z will help you navigate the choppy waters of the online piracy debate.
Like many music retailers, Nathaniel Bernier was getting squeezed. His store, Wild Rufus Records, in the seaside town of Camden, Maine, was selling fewer CDs. It was suffering as a result of the music industry's broader woes - CD sales nationwide were down a steep 17.5% last year. To make matters worse, the local Wal-Mart was beefing up its music section and drawing customers away.
Recently, Nat Hays, chairman of Brooklyn's independent +1 Records, wanted to break a record by one of his label's new bands, The Morning Benders. So he went straight to Apple's iTunes Music Store.
Anthony Volodkin ran into trouble last year when he tried to raise money for the Hype Machine, a digital music startup.
"This is awesome. Thank you so much," the country star says of her surprise plaque
Josh Groban sings 'The Christmas Song' in a Larry King holiday special airing tonight at 9:00 pm ET.
The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) filed a lawsuit against XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc on Thursday for providing radios that allegedly let users reproduce and distribute copyrighted music without paying appropriate royalties.
Horrible Halloween picks for the ghastliest gizmos, scariest software and most terrifying technologies of the year.
Look up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane! Nope. It's the two satellite radio stocks plunging from orbit!
The recording industry intends to sue hundreds of college students accused of illegally distributing music and movies across Internet2, the super-fast computer network connecting leading universities for researching the next generation of the Internet, industry officials said Tuesday.
Since 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been suing peer-to-peer (P2P) file swappers and downloaders. The RIAA alleges, in its suits, that P2P file swapping and downloading, when it involves pirated files, violates copyright law -- and, at times, also the Digital Music Copyright Act (DMCA).
The Motion Picture Association of America is set to follow the lead of the music industry and start filing lawsuits against individuals who it charges are illegally trading digital copies of movies, according to a published report.
With Interpol sitting on top of the indie rock pile, it seems the much-ballyhooed New York music scene has survived the apparent scare after the Strokes' second album, "Room on Fire," came and went with little fanfare.
Music CDs may not be headed the way of Betamax videotapes after all -- at least not yet.
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is expected to announce today a settlement with the music industry under which recorded-music and music- publishing companies will make a good-faith effort to distribute $50 million in unpaid royalties to thousands of unknown musicians, along with a number of well- known performers, including David Bowie, Sean "Puffy" Combs, and Dolly Parton , Tuesday's Wall Street Journal reported.
More than 17 million Americans have stopped downloading music over the Internet following a recent crackdown on the practice, according to a new survey.
The trade group for the major movie studios is considering following the legal path of the record companies by suing people for illegally downloading copyrighted materials, according to a published report.
The U.S. music industry on Tuesday sued 532 more people for online copyright infringement, including 89 individuals using college networks.
It's never a good sign for the tech sector when some of its biggest news involves lawyers, but that's been the situation so far this year.
Near the center of the walled medieval district of Estonia's capital, Tallinn, sits the NoKu bar. It's almost impossible to find, on a cobblestone street behind a pair of old, unmarked wooden doors...
The pinstriped phantom appeared out of nowhere and stapled a "Swapper!" sign to my chest.
The U.S. music industry says it is suing 532 individuals in anti-piracy lawsuits even though it does not know their names.
The nation's record companies Wednesday sued another 532 people for illegally distributing copyrighted music over the Internet, stepping up their attack against online music piracy.
Can anything save the music business? Since 1999, CD unit sales have plunged 26 percent--a decline of $2 billion--thanks in part to file-sharing services and other forms of digital piracy. The majo...
The music business is trapped in a new-economy time warp. While the rest of us plod through Scandal Summer 2002, record companies are still dealing with "paradigm shifting technologies," talk of ca...
To the big record labels, Napster wasn't just a nuisance; it was their worst nightmare--the online equivalent to everyone storming into record stores and making off with armfuls of CDs. So when an ...
Fortune: After Napsterupdated: Mon Jun 24 2002 00:01:00
The music industry may have won the battle against Napster, which recently filed for bankruptcy as part of a plan to sell its assets to Bertelsmann. But the victory comes in the midst of a larger w...
The Recording Industry Association of America may have won a legal victory against Napster, but now it's scrambling to keep up with the next generation of music-swapping software. The conventional ...
Early this year officials at Indiana University began noticing a curious thing: A rapidly rising percentage of the university's Internet bandwidth was being consumed by students using a new Web ser...
Over the past year I had read articles declaring the CD dead, heard friends talk about friends who had stopped patronizing record stores, and watched music executives fret over the impending meltdo...
On a recent Saturday night, I punched in the code to enter the offices of a friend's startup in San Francisco. It was dark, so I stumbled through the maze of cubicles toward a bright light across t...
Is the cassette dying, or just in a coma? This is a big question in the music industry these days, and for good reason. In 1991 cassettes accounted for 29% of all retail music sales; today cassette...
Word to Senator Bob Dole: get with it, bro. The Republican presidential hopeful recently scored big points bashing rap music and record companies such as Time Warner (parent of Fortune's publisher)...
TWO YEARS AGO in Milan, a squad of court officers and lawyers burst into the gloomy headquarters of Montedison, Italy's chemical giant. Sweeping through the building, they ordered employees at comp...
Fortune: A year for recordsupdated: Mon Apr 01 1985 00:01:00
A comeback award for Sixties rocker Tina Turner at this year's Grammys could easily have gone to the whole record industry. It has finally climbed out of the pit of a four-year depression that intr...
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