Download battle reaches Europe
LONDON, UK (MSN Music Club) - Microsoft has launched a music download service in Europe after the success of a similar service run by rival Apple in the United States. Microsoft's MSN Music Club allows fans in the UK, France and Germany to buy single songs from 75p, or 0.99 euros. It is being billed ...
| Virgin Radio is the top commercial Internet broadcast station
NEW YORK (Arbitron Internet Broadcast Ratings) - Virgin Radio was ranked the number one commercial Internet Broadcast Station with 269,166 hours of Total Time Spent Listening (TTSL) for the week of July 21, according to Arbitron Internet Broadcast Ratings. Musicmatch Artist Match was the top non-commercial ...
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File-swapping dips after threats
NEW YORK (CNET/Mp3 Online news) - The number of people using several music-swapping sites dropped the week after the music industry threatened to sue them. Kazaa and Morpheus - two of the most popular file-swapping services - said they had 15% fewer users the week beginning 6 July. This was the week ...
| File swappers 'buy more music'
LONDON, UK (BBC) - Music fans who download songs from the internet go on to buy more albums, a survey has suggested. The survey's findings oppose the music industry's long-standing argument that internet downloading is responsible for a slump in CD sales, with album sales falling 5% in the last year. ...
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Metallica says no
NEW YORK (Metallica Fans Forums) - The boys in Metallica have always been strong opponents of downloading music and they won't be stopping now. In an attempt to battle the financial blow to the industry, companies including Apple have started opening online music stores where downloaders can pay by ...
| RIAA gets tough
LOS ANGELES (RIAA) - The American music industry's organization, the Recording Industry Association of America, has announced its most aggressive plans to fight downloading yet. The RIAA says that they will be pursuing legal action against computer-users who have made "substantial" collections of mp3 ...
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Apple iTunes update irritates fans
NEW YORK (Apple Website) - Apple is clamping down on piracy by imposing restrictions on the way that music downloaded from its iTunes service can be shared. Changes to the service stop people listening across the internet to playlists of songs created by others. The change was included in an iTunes ...
| RIAA sends 'informational' notes to thousands of file swappers
LOS ANGELES (RIAA) - The recording industry - utilizing the chat functions housed in popular file-swapping software like Kazaa and Grokster - says it has sent hundreds of thousands of warnings to people it claims are offering copyrighted materials online. "When you offer music on these systems, you ...
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Madonna.com hacked?
NEW YORK (Madonna Official & Fans Websites) - Over the weekend the official Madonna site madonna.com was designed to look like it was hacked and the entire new 'American Life' album offered for a free download. Every song from the Madonna album was available to save as MP3 just as the album was shipping ...
| Europe offered free digital downloads
CANNES, France (BBC/MIDEM Website) - Music producers in Europe have announced a second digital download day in a bid to promote legal music on the internet. The campaign - Digital Download Day Europe - will allow music fans to download five euros' (�3.40) worth of music for free from sites that pay ...
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Bad news for Kazaa
NEW YORK (CNet) - It looks like file-sharing service Kazaa may soon suffer the fate of Napster before it. On Friday a US federal judge gave record companies and movie studios permission to sue Kazaa's parent company, Sharman Networks Ltd.. A request to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit due to ...
| Judge backs case against Kazaa
LOS ANGELES (mp3 news) - A US judge has said he is likely to back a court action brought by the country's biggest media companies against the file-swapping service Kazaa. US District Judge Stephen Wilson heard arguments in a Los Angeles courtroom about the service, which the companies say offers free ...
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Hollywood Tries To Corner Kazaa
LOS ANGELES (Mp3 news) - On Monday, November 24, a federal court in Los Angeles will consider whether entertainment companies may sue Sharman Networks, distributor of the Kazaa peer-to-peer file sharing software, in U.S. courts. Sharman is incorporated in the island-nation of Vanuatu, operates out of ...
| Universal Music Kicks Off Digital Download Plan
LOS ANGELES (Universal press releases) - Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, on Wednesday announced it would make more than 43,000 song tracks available for download at retail outlets and music Web sites, opening a new front in the marketing of digital music. The initiative is ...
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Pressplay announced an agreement with BMG
NEW YORK (Pressplay Website) - Pressplay, the leading music service, today announced an agreement with BMG that brings that company's prestigious music catalog to the pressplay service. BMG becomes the fourth major music company to add its songs to pressplay's catalog of more than 120,000 songs from ...
| More Than 32 Million Music Fans Tune To The Web
NEW YORK (Nielsen/Net Ratings Website) - Nielsen//NetRatings, the global standard in Internet audience measurement and analysis, reports that more than 32 million surfers, or 27 percent of the active online population visited a music site during the month of August 2002. Despite a host of legal challenges ...
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Musicians Sue Vivendi Over MP3.com Service
LOS ANGELES (Leagal Cases News Website) - A Vivendi Universal unit has been sued by musicians Bob Dylan, Billy Joel and James Taylor, who say MP3.com Inc. had no right to transmit more than 700 of their songs over the Internet. The suit targets an online music distribution service that MP3.com launched ...
| File-sharing upgrade taunts record labels
LOS ANGELES (Mp3 News) - Popular file-swapping system Kazaa has released a new version of its core software and announced an important alliance. The swapping network has signed a deal with European net service provider Tiscali which will see both partners promote each other to their respective audiences. ...
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RIAA: Online Sharing Caused 7% Sales Drop
LOS ANGELES (Top40-Charts) - Compact disc music sales decreased 7 percent during the first half of the year, a further indication that online music sharing sites are hurting the recording industry, a trade group said Monday. The decline cost the industry $284 million in lost sales, according to the ...
| China-based Free Downloads Site Blocked
NEW YORK (Top40-Charts) - A group of record companies have asked a New York judge to block access by Americans to a China-based web site that allows free downloads of copyrighted songs. Record labels including Sony Music Entertainment, the Universal Music Group and RCA Records filed the suit Friday ...
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