Sony on Collision Course with Music Majors over MP3
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including its own Sony BMG venture - over the MP3 song format. Sony is considering manufacturing devices that play digital
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Trying to recoup its losses as a result of placing anti-piracy software on its music CDs, Sony BMG sued the company responsible for the technology, it said on Thursday.
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The decision by a group of European labels to legally challenge the European Commission's approval of the Sony/BMG merger could raise questions for future deals.
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the world's second largest music company, will this month become the last of the big four majors to drop copy protection software on music downloads, also known as digital rights management (DRM).
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Rival technologies that baffle consumers will run more companies out of business in the nascent music download market than will head-to-head competition, one of the lead creators of MP3 playback technology warned on Wednesday.
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By Bernhard Warner LONDON  - Consumer electronics giant Sony Corp. said on Thursday it is mulling a major strategic shift to make digital music devices that play MP3 song files.
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Sony has seemingly changed its mind on the MP3 music format, deciding that all new players will be able to play MP3s. Before this decision all music players made by Sony used only the company&#39;s proprietary ATRAC format, limiting users&#39; choices somewhat.
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IN A major strategic reversal, Sony plans to add support for MP3 music files to some of its portable music players. The shift to support the widely used MP3 music format would end Sony&#39;s long-standing insistence on its proprietary Atrac format.
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The digital music battle of the  future may not be over where music is purchased, but where and  how it is stored.
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Sony Electronics has released the first of its digital audio players to support the popular MP3 format, marking a significant shift in its music strategy.
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It&#39;s just another sign that a major battle for the hearts, minds and dollars of young, tech-minded consumers will be fought over music -- who sells it and who gets to play it on what portable gadgets.
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Microsoft&#39;s WMA, Apple&#39;s ACC, Sony&#39;s Altrac and others -- compete in a variety of digital music devices, support for MP3 is becoming a required ingredient for any successful portable player.
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Rival technologies that baffle consumers  will run more companies out of business in the nascent music  download market than will head-to-head competition, one of the  lead creators of MP3 playback technology warned on Wednesday.
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Edging cautiously into the water where Amazon, Apple's iTunes, eMusic and other services are already frolicking, Sony BMG Music has announced plans to offer a tiny set of DRM-free tracks online... if you go to one of their brick-and-mortar stores first.
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One of the big four record labels, which just this week was part of a landmark deal for MP3 access through Last.fm, announced earlier it is suing a completely different firm that offers similar access though without any kind of compensation plan.
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Sony's decision to drop its ATRAC file format and shutter the Connect music store signals a radical departure for the electronics giant, which has tried for 15 years to market its proprietary file format as a viable competitor to MP3 and other digital music formats.
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It&#39;s a clash between the film industry and a consumer electronics company -- over a home theatre jukebox. The legal battle is over something called the Kaleidescape System.